if you enjoy using Google Home and Google Assistant devices and enjoy using
the Google assistant overall but you're an iPhone user you may or may not have
realized that you have a problem with the iPhone if you want to use the Google
Assistant on it hands-free well what if I were to tell you that there was a way
to do this that pretty much worked all the time let's dive in earlier last year
Apple released iOS 12 and in iOS 12 there's a feature called Siri shortcuts
Siri shortcuts are just shortcuts that allow you to do different pieces of
automation on an iPhone now up until recently the Google Assistant had
nothing to do with Siri shortcuts but that all changed a few months ago when
Google made an update to the Google Assistant app on the iPhone that allows
you to create a Siri shortcut and I'm gonna go ahead there you go so I'm gonna
go ahead and show you how to set up a series for cut but before I do you're
gonna want to make sure you have two apps downloaded on your phone the first
one is the Google Assistant app if you're a fan of the Google Assistant you
should just download the Assistant app anyways that's awesome it just shows you
a lot of nice visuals and Google's material design is just it's really nice
on the app the second app you're going to want to download if you don't already
have it is shortcuts and you can download that from the App Store so
assuming that we have both of those apps downloaded let's go ahead and swipe down
in the middle of our screen and there's shortcuts right there we're gonna bring
up the shortcuts library so the first thing you're going to want to do is
click create a shortcut next in the search bar type in the trigger phrase
for the Google assistant I'm not going to say because I don't want to trigger
your Google assistant at home all right after you've selected that go ahead and
hit the play button just to make sure it works and it's triggering the Google
Assistant on your phone and as long as it does that
we can go back to shortcuts if it doesn't for some reason try it again and
also make sure that you have the Google Assistant app downloaded on your iPhone
all right so after selecting the trigger word for the assistant
if you click done you're not actually done because notice it says untitled
shortcut so what we need to do is we need to click the three dots go back
into the shortcut click the sliders at the top right let's go ahead and name
this we're going to name this shortcut get Google cuz that's what we want
Siri to do we want Siri to get Google for us and the Siri phrase is going to
be get Google I've already set the shortcut up once so it already knows my
voice but I'm gonna go ahead and rerecord it get Google alright now that
we've recorded our phrase we can click done you will need to click Add to Siri
right now you can see my Siri phrase is selected if you see text that says add
to Siri go ahead and click that to make sure that Siri is aware of this shortcut
after you've done that go ahead and click done click done again now for the
moment of truth click your home button or if you're on a newer iPhone swipe
back up to the home screen and then go ahead and say hey Siri get Google
and there you can see the Google assistant is now running hands-free on
an iPhone so what can you do with this well there's a lot you can do with this
let's say you're shopping in a grocery store you've got your hands full and you
just need to see your shopping list well all you have to do is say hey Siri get
Google show me my shopping list and there you go there's your shopping list
so there's some pretty useful things that you can do in your car or if you're
out and about and shopping and that's how you do Siri shortcuts with the
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I'm Josh Teder for 6 Months Later.