Google Assistant will no longer support a number of underutilized features to focus on improving quality and reliability.

Looks like a bunch of features are being removed due to “underutilization”

  • TJA!English
    16•1 year ago

    I didn’t even know that most of these were possible. Voice commands are not very discoverable.

    I mostly use it to set a timer/an alarm or to put things on Google keep lists. For the alarm you have to be very specific or it can be an unexpected time. Putting things on lists works mostly just for my shipping list and even that has problems.

    And if I now can’t even easily access it I will probably not even use it for that

    • Carighan MaconarEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      Yep same. I set my alarm in the evening, I set a lot of timers while working in the kitchen, and I fill in my shopping list while going through stuff in the pantry.

      Sometimes I let it play some background noise, pause/resume music or a video, and I have a routine that reminds me of things during work days. That’s it. And it works well enough for that, but eh, still annoying that they now took both the smartness of Google Now and the sheer broad applicability of Assistant away.