How to ask Google Assistant to help you make notes, find pics, podcasts and even your phone

(Pocket-lint) - Google Assistant has immoderate truly useful features, including the quality to marque notes and lists and hunt for circumstantial photos by voice, you tin adjacent find a misplaced phone.

Here's what you request to know.

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What you tin bash with Google Assistant

Here are 5 awesome features you mightiness not cognize about:

1. Google Assistant tin make notes and lists for you. 
2. Google adjunct tin assistance you delegate reminders to your housemates and family.
3. Google Assistant tin service up photos and nonstop them to your friends oregon family.
4. Google Assistant tin hunt for podcasts astir a definite topic.
5. Google Assistant tin assistance you find a mislaid phone 

How bash these features work?

Notes and lists

You request to link Google Assistant with an app that you privation to usage to make notes oregon lists, specified arsenic Google Keep, Any.do, AnyList, oregon Bring!. Notes and lists are disposable crossed Assistant-enabled phones, speakers, and astute displays.

1. Select the Services tab successful your Google Assistant settings and past take the app sanction from the Notes and Lists section.
2. Once connected, lists created from your Assistant instrumentality volition look successful that app.
3. You tin besides inquire Google Assistant for your notes and lists that were created earlier you connected Google Assistant with your app.
4. Try saying "Create a vacation acquisition list" oregon "Add turkey to my market list" oregon "Take a note" oregon "Show maine my notes".

Assignable reminders

Assignable reminders assistance you collaborate and enactment successful interaction with radical who are a portion of your household and person entree to your Assistant devices. With this feature, you tin inquire your Google Assistant, "Hey Google, punctual Corey to prime up eggnog from the store tomorrow."

Find photos by voice

It's arsenic elemental arsenic it sounds: Use Google Assistant to fetch photos buried successful your phone's camera roll. On your Android phone, say, "Hey Google, look up photos from past summer," and pat your favourite pictures. You tin besides say, "Hey Google, stock these photos with Paul."

Listen to podcasts by topic

When you inquire the Assistant for podcasts astir a definite topic, it’ll suggest applicable episodes for you. Just say, "Hey Google, find a podcast astir serial killers" oregon "Hey Google, find a podcast astir WWII". Either way, it’ll suggest a podcast and circumstantial episodes for you to hear.

Find your phone

This 1 tin prevention a batch of frustration, simply accidental to your Nest astute talker oregon astute show "Hey Google, find my phone" and your telephone volition get a notification and marque a customized ringing dependable - adjacent erstwhile acceptable to soundless oregon bash not disturb.

What's more, this diagnostic adjacent works with iPhones. To alteration it connected iPhone you conscionable request to opt successful to receiving notifications and captious alerts from the Google Home app.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Editing by Luke Baker. Originally published connected 6 December 2019.