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    Google Assistant: 12 awesome features you should be using

    Jun 05, 2018 6 minutes
    BY RYAN WHITWAM

    Google has had voice search features in Android for years, but when Google Assistant rolled out on the Pixel in October 2016, everything finally came together.

    You can now get Assistant on all modern Android devices, and Google has already announced new Assistant features at I/O 2018 that will make it even better (okay, and maybe a little too real, in the case of Duplex).

    It can be easy to miss the improvements if you don’t obsessively keep an eye on the news, so here they are in one place: the 12 coolest new features in Google Assistant.

    1. SYNC CONNECTED SMART HOME DEVICES

    Google Assistant supports numerous smart home devices, but you might notice that devices you’ve just added to your account don’t always work right away. That’s because Assistant isn’t constantly scanning for new connections. You can give it a kickstart.

    After adding a new smart home device like a camera or thermostat, open up Assistant and say, “Sync my devices.” Assistant tells you it’s syncing with your

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