How to Lock And Unlock Using Google Assistant

Google assistant has quite a lot of features and it even allows you to lock and unlock your Android phone with just a simple voice command. Now let us dig deep into the subject and see how you can do this on your phone, to start with this process, your phone should have Google assistant enabled in it. If you don’t have it enabled in your device, 

Google assistant, one of the most popularly known assistants and the official one from Google is quite popular among the android users. We have earlier learned about the process of getting Google’s smart assistant installed on our smartphones.

Howto get Google Assistant on any android phone

Google assistant is the major highlight among Google’s latest flagship phones launched in 2016 which are the Google Pixel and Pixel XL. This new AI-powered virtual assistant from Google is a great hit. The assistant has excellent recognition skills and it answers almost everything. This beats Siri and even other assistant in various other platforms. This Google assistantis not available any other android phones except the Pixel devices even on the devices running on android Nougat. While the rooted android devices running on android Nougat can get this assistant, and now the users of android devices with android Lollipop or higher can get the assistant officially.

Procedure:

Google alpha is the new version of the Google search app released by Google. This app brings a huge range of features along with the assistant in the non-pixel devices.

For this one needs to first download and install the Google search alpha app by following the steps below.  

• Download the app Google app 6.13.5.21 alpha from the website APKMirror.
• Now under Settings go to Security and then enable Unknown sources, this allows the user to install the downloaded APK files.
• Then install the Google app 6.13.5.21 alpha app on your device.

Launch and setup Google assistant:

Once the app is installed just follow these steps below to setup the assistant on your device.

• Press and hold the “home button” on your device. Then you should get to see a screen that says “New! You just got Google assistant”. Tap on the continue button.
• Then the assistant will tell you how to ask questions and also ask for required permissions. Finally tap “Yes I am in”.
• Goggle will then launch the assistant in your device and it will take you through some basics of using it.

Using these simple steps you can now get the assistant on you android phone with the help of the Google alpha app.

 but recently Google has announced that it has been planning to launch its assistant to all theandroid smartphones that are running on Marshmallow or higher. So, if you are using a phone with an older android operating system, then go on to the above link and follow that process to get that assistant and if you have Marshmallow you will have to wait for the official update for your phone to arrive from Google. If you cannot then here is how you can get the Google assistant enabled on your device.

Here is the process:

This is the process of enabling the assistant through beta apps and it can be done by following the below steps.

• First of all, you have to get the beta versions of the Google Play services and the Google app. This can be done by going to Settings>Google>tap on the three dot icon and then tap on the Help and feedback option from the drop down box.
• Now in that page again, you have to tap on the three dot icon and then click on the option open in the Google Play store. It will then take you to the Google Play Services Play store page.
• Here just scroll down to the bottom of the screen and you can find the I’m In button there, just hit on it.
• Then click on join in the pop-up window.
• Now you have to wait for a few minutes to get the update to that application.
• When you see the update option there in the application’s page, just tap on it and wait for it to install the update.
• After it is done, you have to search for the Google app in the Playstore and then sign up for its beta version as well like you did for the Google Play Services. If you have any doubt regarding the using of beta version check out our earlier article on this page 
• After updating both the application with the beta versions, just go to Settings>Apps, then select Google here and then click on Storage>Manage Space>Clear All data.
• Change the language of the device to English US in the language input settings.
• Then come back and select Google Play Services and then tap on Manage Space and then hit Clear All data.
• After doing all that, open the Google app and set the things up as you are asked to.

Then you will see the same Google page, where you have to tap on Settings and then Google Assistantsettings, click on it which will pop up the assistant’s window.

 Android phones (typically with Android 7.0 Nougat and newer) come with Google Assistant already installed in the device. You simply need to enable the feature and grant the Google app the relevant permissions while setting up the phone.

If you’re not sure if it’s enabled, open your Google app and tap the three-bar Menu button. Choose Settings > Google Assistant to check.

If you have an older version of Android, Google Assistant is delivered through an automatic update. Any phone with Android Lollipop (5.0) or higher can run the app. Download the Google Assistant app from Google Play if it’s not already built into your phone.

Lock And Unlock Using Google Assistant

Once you have the smart assistant from Google on your phone, then just follow these simple steps

• First, you need to have an additional to lock your device and you can use Off+, Screen off, Lock Screen for that purpose
• After installing one of these apps, just open the Assistant and tap on the drawer icon
• Tap the three dot icon and then click on Settings>Shortcuts
• Tap the blue + button there
• Fill the new shortcut with
When I say Ok Google: Lock phone
Google Assistant Should do: Open Screen Off
• And then click Save

You can change the voice command to anything that you may feel comfortable with. And you can even use any app in the place of Screen off if you wish to open any particular application with that command.

Now to unlock your Android phone, you can simply say that voice command that you have set. Simply switch your lock and unlock system in your device and make the process of locking, unlocking hassle free and quick as well.

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