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My favorite hidden Google Assistant trick

Routines for Google Assistant let you control multiple smart home gadgets at once, get info about your calendar or the weather, play music or podcasts, and more. These versatile grouped commands are fully customizable and can be programmed to give custom responses as well. We dive into the routines feature and take a look at…

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Routines for Google Assistant let you control multiple smart home gadgets at once, get info about your calendar or the weather, play music or podcasts, and more. These versatile grouped commands are fully customizable and can be programmed to give custom responses as well.

We dive into the routines feature and take a look at custom commands and responses. Routines will work on any device with Google Assistant, including the Google Home smart speaker, the Nest Hub smart displays, smart phones and tablets.

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40 Comments

  1. terry kemp

    June 2, 2020 at 12:34 pm

    Alexa is miles ahead and always will be.

    • Zion Kinniebrew

      June 2, 2020 at 12:43 pm

      How so

    • terry kemp

      June 2, 2020 at 12:48 pm

      @Zion Kinniebrew . Alexa’s AI is more advanced and it can do much more things.

    • DragoBludvist

      June 2, 2020 at 12:49 pm

      @terry kemp I strongly disagree with you on this one. There’s no virtual assistant out there better in any way than Google Assistant

    • Jeffrey Wigington

      June 2, 2020 at 4:05 pm

      ahead of…Siri, yes.

  2. Simon P

    June 2, 2020 at 12:42 pm

    I haven’t really use the custom commands because I found it hard to get used to with google.
    It was a similar thing with she who should not be named.

  3. David Hartin

    June 2, 2020 at 12:58 pm

    I wish the nest mini sounded like an echo.
    I like Google assistant way more than Alexa.

  4. مستقبل التكلولوجية

    June 2, 2020 at 1:01 pm

    ????????

  5. CJ Hicks

    June 2, 2020 at 1:09 pm

    Thanks for muting you saying hey Google. My whole house didn’t go off

    • Mack McCord

      June 2, 2020 at 5:09 pm

      lol at whole house. Same here

  6. MEGA

    June 2, 2020 at 1:39 pm

    Mass surveillance device

  7. donna starkey

    June 2, 2020 at 1:42 pm

    yet you still cannot get it to respond to only your voice

  8. YouAndImpact

    June 2, 2020 at 1:49 pm

    Great video.????

  9. noslover11

    June 2, 2020 at 1:51 pm

    how is this useful, its just meh

  10. Nigel Uno

    June 2, 2020 at 2:03 pm

    A baby version of iOS shortcuts. I’ve extensively used both platforms and can tell you aside from Apple forcing their ecosystem down your throat (can’t tell Siri to use Google Maps), the shortcuts version is better.

  11. Raymond Kirby

    June 2, 2020 at 2:43 pm

    Doesn’t work consistently. No way to debug complex scripts

  12. Isaac Abraham

    June 2, 2020 at 3:10 pm

    Immediately like for blocking out the hotword

  13. John Fox

    June 2, 2020 at 3:47 pm

    I wouldn’t call routines ‘hidden’ as much as ‘poorly designed to be found easily’.
    We don’t use too many routines, but my wife loves the one that I set up for when we go to bed. It turns on the stairway and 2nd-floor hall light, turns off all other lights, turns off all the TVs, and locks the front door. The routine leaves the master bedroom lights unchanged in case one of us is already in there.
    Other than that, I personally haven’t’ found too much use for them. Google already controls almost all of the lights, thermostats, and several outlets and it didn’t seem like there was too much of a need to combine many of them. Google has built-in programming that if I say ‘turn off master bedroom lights’, it knows which lights to shut off without having to create a routine because it knows what room (master bedroom) and what type of device (lights). No need to group. If I hear strange noise, I can tell Google to turn on all lights and the entire house gets lit up like an airport, including the outside lights.

  14. Mihai Popa

    June 2, 2020 at 4:53 pm

    Great for newbies, thanks!

  15. Niles Hallie

    June 2, 2020 at 5:16 pm

    Thank you so much for the phone number you entered made me smile and now the song is stuck in my head.

  16. Nicholas Lovan

    June 2, 2020 at 5:51 pm

    B a n j o j a m s

  17. John Michael Stock

    June 2, 2020 at 6:12 pm

    What you on about, routines are not ‘hidden’

  18. yaynative

    June 2, 2020 at 6:21 pm

    Much appreciated. Looks like Routines is more robust then when I first checked them out.

  19. Predatory Mistress- TAP ON MY PHOTO

    June 2, 2020 at 6:32 pm

    ???? ????‍♀️ ????

  20. Ryan Snook

    June 2, 2020 at 8:25 pm

    What’s the hidden feature?

  21. medic8613

    June 2, 2020 at 10:06 pm

    How is this hidden? Theres a giant routines button in the Home app begging to be used.

  22. Aaron Crawford

    June 2, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    Nice to see that cool smart watch rather than an Apple Watch on a tech reviewer

  23. Kevin A

    June 2, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    Your beard is a bit puby..sorry

  24. angergoggles

    June 2, 2020 at 11:30 pm

    This video isn’t about a hidden trick at all. You don’t fool me any more!

  25. Dapoptart

    June 3, 2020 at 7:14 am

    It doesn’t work

  26. Joseph Liu

    June 3, 2020 at 10:42 am

    …Just find some friends dude…

  27. Alisa Parker Albert

    June 3, 2020 at 12:06 pm

    Mess mini

  28. ANAND JOSEPH

    June 3, 2020 at 5:35 pm

    What phone is that? Looks like an iPhone with home button but the forehead looks smaller compared to the chin which is not how iphones are?

  29. cjxgraphics

    June 3, 2020 at 6:05 pm

    Hey Google, is it time for the kids to go to bed?
    “Yes, it’s bedtime. Do what your dad says.”
    But my favorite, uses IFTT. All my kid has to do is “Hey Google, tell dad blah blah blah.”
    And I’ll get a notification on my phone, “blah blah blah” or whatever my kid wanted to tell me. 🙂

  30. Goldfire // Project.R

    June 4, 2020 at 5:43 am

    Yea… This isn’t a hidden feature… at all.

  31. Sam Prince

    June 4, 2020 at 5:33 pm

    My favourite clickbaity headline…

  32. chenwd9106

    June 4, 2020 at 10:40 pm

    audio needs some improvement

  33. ChyroBeast

    June 5, 2020 at 2:46 pm

    I can use it as my wingman. *with a girl* “hey google, put on sexytime music” “oh you brought home ABOTHER girl this week”

  34. Lord Adams

    June 5, 2020 at 2:56 pm

    Have to save up for smart appliances I’m too lazy to control them physically

  35. finisek 123

    June 5, 2020 at 3:15 pm

    This isnt hidden, its just called a feature

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