Google’s Android Auto platform is incredibly useful, but it relies heavily on voice commands to safely assist you on the road, and for the past few weeks, key voice commands for calls and texts have ...

In a rather egregious oversight, one Google Assistant command can delete all the alarms in Google Clock for Android. As highlighted by Artem Russakovskii, telling Google Assistant to “stop/turn off ...

Google Home users with thermostats can no longer use the simple command “turn off the thermostat” to control their device. Instead, users have to say “set thermostat to off” to turn it off, which is ...

The app is called Action Blocks. Its main benefit is that it turns repetitive voice commands into one-tap buttons, eliminating the need to speak and reducing wait times. Developed for accessibility, ...

One of the advertised perks of using Android Auto on your phone in your car is that you can make calls and control your media by issuing voice commands to Google Assistant. At least, that's how it's ...

Still, there are some things that you think are so safe, so ironclad, that there’s no way Google could kill them off. One of these was a simple Google Assistant voice command that allowed you to add ...

Android security update adds preventative user blocks. Update, May 16, 2025: This story, originally published May 14, has been updated with news of more security features that have either arrived or ...