2023’s top Google Assistant advice for Android

One of Android’s most underappreciated advantages is its tight integration with the excellent and ever-evolving Google Assistant voice command genie.

It’s easy to take Assistant for granted, being a person who carries around an Android phone every day. It’s just always there, usually quietly waiting. And it’s certainly not perfect.

But Assistant can do some spectacularly useful stuff. And all it takes is 10 minutes with an iPhone to remind yourself just how good we’ve got it.

These bits of advanced Google Assistant knowledge from Android Intelligence over the past year will help you tap into some of the service’s most advanced and out-of-sight possibilities. Check ’em out, store ’em deep in your brain’s internal storage, and be sure to come sign up for my Android Intelligence newsletter when you’re done to get even more off-the-beaten-path knowledge in your inbox every Friday — direct from me to you.

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Hey Google: Keep the good stuff comin’ in 2024, won’t ya?

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