Tech big Google has introduced new options coming to Google Assistant on Thursday, and essentially the most important characteristic is – discovering your misplaced iPhone.
For fairly a while, iPhone customers have been in a position to discover their smartphones utilizing the Find My service. To assist discover your misplaced iPhone, Siri integration can be on board, so you possibly can simply ask the assistant the place your iPhone is and it’ll ping your gadget with an audible notification which even bypasses Do Not Disturb, even whether it is enabled.
The very same characteristic is coming to Google Assistant, in accordance to Google.
In a blog post shared by Lilian Rincon, Senior Director of Product Management for Google Assistant, Rincon said, “You can inform your Nest good speaker or good show, “Hey Google, discover my cellphone,” for all devices, now including iPhone models. For iPhone devices, once you opt in to receiving notifications and critical alerts from the Google Home app, you’ll get a notification and hear a custom ringing sound (even when the phone is on silent or if Do Not Disturb is enabled).”
One large draw back is {that a} person can be in a position to ping their cellphone utilizing Google Assistant, nevertheless, it is not going to present up on a map like Find My. Nevertheless, if somebody finally ends up shedding their iPhone throughout the private house, it’s a good way to discover it and reunite with it as soon as once more.
An iPhone person can ask Google Assistant to discover their cellphone utilizing any platform, whether or not it’s a speaker, one of many new Chromecast gadgets, and even an Android pill. It is essential to have the Google Home app put in on one’s iPhone and signed in utilizing his/her account for this to work.
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