Hello everyone. Thanks for tuning in again. I'm going to show you the newly
updated Google Assistant app today. I'm going to run you through all the
new features and all of the new updates and ways to navigate this app. And therefore
how to apply all the new great home automation features to your life. The new
Google Assistant app has been completely redesigned in its latest update. Let's get right into it. Right
away you can see the differential here. Up at the top right away, right off the
bat, you can see it saying good morning. It's actually recognizing that it's
morning here and it's recognizing the weather, that's right up at the top. Now
on top of that, you can see down below that is the travel time to work. It kind
of knows this is the time or a little before this, I go to work, and then
there's a set of basic things that you might want to do every day. You can kind
of scroll through that and then explore what's new.
There's your calendar, you could add a reminder, add an event if you had any,
they're all there and I'll show you in a bit what it looks like. Here's your stocks. If you
click the three dots, you can edit them and there's more exploring you can do as
you get kind of further down the application. Now up at the top right,
there's some buttons you can see, and still at the bottom, there's the Google
Assistant where you could actually go and talk or speak right to your Google
Assistant. Now once I refresh the page, notice that the travel or the map
disappears. If you exit and re-enter the app, that comes back, but it's gone for
now. So they show you that and if you don't want to use it then
obviously you're not going anywhere. Now up at the top right, the very top right
icon, this will look familiar to you. It's taking you to the explore
section of the Google Assistant application. Up at the top right, if you
tap on the three dots, there's your account, your settings, your Google app
settings, all kinds of different things that you can do. I'm not going to run
through that just yet. Now if I tap at the bottom where you see the icon for
the Google Assistant, it takes you back to that home page. You can see the
navigation now is very quick between the two, so I'm going to throw out the Assistant
app just to show you how it comes back. Again,
there's the traffic. It shows up, but if I was to refresh it goes away.
Top-right again you see this new icon. I don't know what to describe it as
other than kind of a folded in-box. It looks like it's opening up. I don't know
what they're depicting there. Someone will tell me I'm sure in the comments,
but when you tap that, this is the interface you get. They're giving you
some of those daily things that you might do. It's basically a quick jump to
the Google Assistant and you can just tap on some of these things. So there's
my daily brief. You can see they're telling me the weather, what's going on,
my trip to work, and that daily brief is set in your Google Home application and
then in the settings for your Google Assistant you can actually set up
what you want your ":My Day" to do. I can go ahead and make a call. I can choose a
contact, and then it will allow me to make that phone call right from the
application here. I can also send a message if I'd like, and I didn't love
the interface here, but you can type in your message, choose your contact, and
then it actually takes you over to the messaging app in your phone. So in the
iPhone that's Messaging, so like I said, there you go the message gets sent off,
and it's very simple. Now the one thing I'll say here is now that I've done a
couple of things in Google Assistant I don't actually have those quick items.
I'd have to actually start speaking to my Google Assistant by using that
little microphone link in the bottom right. So you lose those quick actions
but you could go there and back, back and forward a couple of times if you want it.
So now back to the main page. I'm going to add a reminder. I'm going to show you
how easy this workflow is. So I just tapped on add a reminder
and here it comes up, you can type it in. I'm going to say check the weather and I'm
going to set that for 1 PM and you'll see the differential on the main page here
once it's added. So I've added that in and here's the main page. You can see
it's added that reminder. In the stock world, this is kind of interesting, you
can go ahead, edit stocks, and all you have to do is search for the stock you
want to in the top of this interface. Once you find that stock, you're just
going to tap on the star in the top right of that, and once you do that you
can hit done, and go back to the Google Assistant application, and it will add it.
So a very easy interface for adding in stocks and changing what you want to pay
attention to. This will also change the stocks that you see on all of Google
services, so this is all tied together. Now moving down the application, we
could explore using the Assistant, so I'm going to tap on local. You can tap on
any of these little applications that are part of the Google Assistant apps, so there are
very quick interactions with this application now. Whereas in the past, what
I would say is it could take you a long time if the Google Assistant didn't get
you straight to the right response, but now with this new interface it's a lot
easier to go back and forth and find the information you need using both the
Google Assistant itself or just this interface on your phone or your tablet.
Now up at the top I want to show you the play music button just to show you a
couple of these buttons. I'm going to hit play music, you can see it skips over to
the actual Google Assistant and for me I had defaulted Apple music and I'm not
going to actually play any music from that, but we can also go ahead and hit play news. It
will pre-load one of your news sources, or your first news source and then you
could skip ahead, you could play that news, or
you've got lots of options there as well, and again all of those are set up in
your settings as part of the "My Day" section. You can also tap on the what's
on my shopping list and that brings up your shopping list that you've already
set up If you have a Google Home or you've just been using the Google
Assistant. You can see you can manage that there. So again a very quick back
and forth between the two. Now I'm going to show you on an iPhone what the
interface looks like from the widget screen. Here you can see I have the
Google media controls and I also have the Google Assistant. That portion of the
application has not yet changed. It's just a button to simply tap to talk to
your Google Assistant, and all it does is it brings up the page where you're
talking to the Google Assistant. And you can see it goes straight into listening,
not to the main page. Now I'm going to show you how to manage your settings in the
application, or the quickest way to get there that I found so far. Up in the top
right, there's the explorer icon. Go ahead, tap on that, and then top right again, the
three dots takes you to the menu for all the different settings within the
application. I'm just going to tap on settings, and then here you go these are
all the Google Assistant and your Google Home settings. You can change your music
provider, which you saw I had Apple Music before, and I've changed to Google Music.
So I think that's a pretty good breakdown of the new updated Google Assistant
app, and I would say that Google has actually created a lot of automation or
a lot of quicker interaction with the Google Assistant, and with even the home
control in your home, because you can ask Google Assistant to do all of that and
it's very quick navigation. So I'm really impressed with this update from Google
on the Google assistant app.