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Good, but restricted by apple.
I love Google assistant. I use it in my home for home control, alarms, questions, etc... However the app on iPhone is restricting. You have to go through steps of opening it like a normal app (I know that's just an Apple thing) but what gets me is reminders and directions. I'll use my Google home to set reminders to do something but my iPhone will not pop up with that reminder at the location or time I chose. Likewise, when I ask for directions it says "I sent them to your phone" but nothing ever come through. I use to be able to get reminders and such on my iPhone but they do not come through anymore like they are supposed to.Show lesstheecalvinator
Needs to be iPad Native
Google Assistant is really nice to have on my iPhone and iPad. It does some things better than Siri, some things worse... mainly it’s more fun but less useful than Siri, but that’s mainly due to lack of system integration.
My main complaint with this app is that it doesn’t run native on iPad. Seriously, at this point what excuse does an app have not to run native on iPad?? Apple has made it extremely easy to scale apps up for the bigger screen and higher resolution, and for an app with as simple of an interface as Google Assistant it would be rather easy to make it run beautifully at fullscreen on iPad using UIKit and AutoLayout. They could also optimize it for SplitView rather easily as well, which would be extremely helpful when multitasking. I hope they get on that, because it would make this app so much better!Show lessProteus846
Needs improvement
Hello,
I would like to start off by saying that I have the google home as well. Truthfully the google assistant could use bug fixes/improvements on the fact that it cannot respond and or process multiple sentences at once (ex. Would be asking it multiple questions in one sentence.) Also can’t define government descriptions . Such as (ex. Policies or laws.) last but not least is the hassle of always having it plugged in. It isn’t portable. Billion dollar company but won’t listen to what the people want. Smh lastly is the display on the google assistant app. I think it should display porous of why you're describing or little-handwritten examples or drawings. That is all.
Peace out🧐Show lessKvlvni
Great app.
I use this daily and think it is a lot better than Siri.
Siri fails to understand me. When I want to text or call my partner Michael it instead text or call my friend Michelle.
Google is miles ahead in the maps and assistant dept.
Apple. You charge your customers over the odds for your products, but the software is not really up to scratch.Show lessRaabossi
Lots of promise--some bugs
Very much enjoy using this app. It replaced Siri on my phone for many tasks, including sending text messages (voice language recognition is much better). Nonetheless, some buggy app behavior forced me to abandon it for the time being. Most annoying in my case was a bug interrupting music etc everytime I was on Bluetooth in my car. Assistant's voice would break in with something along the lines of, "Sorry, I'm not able to do that right now, you can do that on your phone." Over and over. Once I removed the app, this behavior stopped. I'll wait for a few more updates before trying this out again.Show lessm56335
Way better than siri
I recently needed to do some projects and used Siri it get information hands free, however I found out that it is very limited and only reads info from Wikipedia, I can barely even show some pics! Then I got this app, and I'm impressed by Google answer to siri.
The "ok, Google" feature works 99% of the time for my horrible accent and the voice is very cheerful and fluent. Its ironic that a 3rd party application does better than what Siri can do. Information is usually on pint and the new connecting with Chromecast is very useful. This app a nessacity is all iphones and should be kapt in the iPhone dock.
Theres is literally nothing wrong with this pp for me other than the fact that accessing it is harder than Siri. This app and gboard is perfect t combination for your iphone.Show lessIyad Laphir
Ditch Siri!!!
Google Assistant is incredible! You can make shortcuts with it, so if you say, “wake me up,” it wont originally play your Wake Up Playlist, but if you set a shortcut for if you say, “wake me up,” you can give Google Assistant the ability to play your Wake Up Playlist, even though she wouldn’t originally do that. She can send messages, tell jokes, and you can subscribe to daily weather reports, daily jokes and daily funny videos! Siri can’t even do half of those things!!! I definitely recommend Google Assistant over the native assistant, Siri!Show lessLogan Bryant Vanooyen
Better than Siri, but needs work
I find Google assistant to be much much better than siri when compared side by side, but it still could be improved upon.
There appears to be no way to edit text if the voice recognition gets a qurstion wrong. You have to either repeat the question a few times until it gets it right or type it in manually. If it is just having a problem recognizing one part of a long question, having to type the whole question manually is frustrating. It would be much better to just have an option to edit the one word the speech recognition got wrong. This is annoying, and is soemthing siri does better.
This is a total Siri killer.Show lessandrewstrauss
Lack of integration with Google services
Assistant is an interesting curiosity that offers little above Google Now or Google Search app. It fails to do basic things such as play a song in Play Music and whilst some of this may be down to iOS design, it's a shame that Google couldn't have given more thought to enabling Assistant services on other Google apps. It struggles to reach out beyond its own narrow app to other apps and whilst it's speech recognition is superb and although it's able to deliver more sense than Siri could dream of, it struggles to do much of any use except to answer fact based questions.Show lessDingo12345
I love IOS and Apple but Siri is awful
Such a shame Siri is so bad. Google assistant knows what I am saying even when I am mumbling. I can’t believe how good it is? When I ask Siri to phone my friend Earl it brings up the earl of sandwich wiki page every time and doesn’t even learn from it’s mistake. Really poor apple. They need to start from scratch!!!Show lessJbamg
