So Google’s entry to the digital voice assistant wars – that is, Google Assistant – just arrived on the OnePlus 3. This means that OnePlus 3 users are getting the same digital assistant capabilities as with the Google Pixel. OnePlus recently announced this via a tweet.
If you remember Google Assistant, the mothership was hyping this as a huge upgrade to Google Now – a deep learning AI embedded into your voice activated search. Also, Google made sure that Google Assistant understood natural sounding conversation better than Google Now did.
With the rollout of Android 7.1.1 to the OnePlus 3, it seems that most people didn’t notice that they now had Google Assistant integrated, so good old OnePlus support encouraged them via Twitter. Of course, people still activated the digital assistant via the “Ok Google” trigger, only that it was Google Assistant that got activated instead of Google Now.
To get Google Assistant, make sure that you’ve installed the recent software updates for the OnePlus 3. Some people are asking if the OnePlus 2 is ever going to get Google Assistant, but that phone hasn’t even been upgraded to Nougat yet, so a bit more waiting, yes?
SOURCE: @OnePlus
Fun Fact… If you say “show me a picture of MY….” it can show you pictures from your gallery of your requested subject.. You have to have Picasa though
You need Google Photos, which is Picasa/Google+ photos predecessor.
My aunt has op2 and she already got the google assistant
Ummmm, I my op3 won’t update, says there are none. I think I read somewhere that they pulled back the update because of a bug though. So people that got the update have it but if you didn’t get it you now can’t get it. I didn’t hear what the bug was that caused it.
There is no bug man, the ota update is gradually rolling if you want to get it instantly go get opera VPN set your locker ion to Canada or Germany. Now go to settings check for updates and install
Nevermind, I think it was an old story I must’ve seen. I did the VPN thing for the update to 7.0.
And by the way it’s a great update, we got 3-finger extended screenshot, google assistant, much improved camera stabilization security patch March and overall fixes
Funny..it already came for my one plus 3 last month.last update was OOS 4.0.3 N 7.0
You might want to check your facts on this, because the Google Assistant rollout had nothing to do with the 4.1.0 OxygenOS update (Android 7.1.1). It’s a progressive server side rollout through the Google app. My OP3 made the switch from Google Now to Assistant about a month ago, a solid 2-3 weeks before I updated to 4.1.0.