Google Assistant iOS update lets you say ‘Hey Siri, OK Google’

The same dark pattern they document here trying to persuade you to enable &quot;Web and App Activity&quot; tracking is even worse in Google Maps for iOS, as I found when I disabled the feature after the press it received. No matter how many times you dismiss it, you&#x27;ll again get a huge prompt on the homescreen urging you to turn it on in a few days. And they <i>hold your home and work address hostage</i> if you don&#x27;t enable it, despite having nothing to do with the anti-feature in question. I hate this shite company.

I wish I could choose my default assistant like I can choose my default browser in iOS. AFAIK this is already possible in Android. Too bad we&#x27;ll probably need some angry European politician to convince Apple.

Great, now I need to speak with all this extra `require English; English::structure` isn&#x27;t that kinda against the spirit of these things?<p>I mean I personally never use Siri or others because I find it easier to get what I want without trying to guess how a computer will interpret. I have the same problem with people, and frankly computers are a nice reprive. Granted I&#x27;m not the general user.

I would love it if they had an “Alexa, OK Google.” I have a pretty extensive Hue+Echo IoT setup, but it def feels like the Echo is training me to speak the “magical incantations”, instead of me using it to ask semantic queries. Siri is almost as bad too...

I am curios why google and others don&#x27;t let us change the wake up command. Technically I don&#x27;t see an issue as the phrase can be setup to only work with your voice already. Is it because of the bad press that could be caused by people abusing this and posting about it?

I went with “Hey Siri, Hey Google”

And still won’t let me access my own Gsuite data, like my calendar or contacts. That’s some pretty shit priorities right there.<p>Google, the king of half-assed solutions.

I was hoping for this, it&#x27;s the first thing I thought to try after Shortcuts was released. Now we just need to get Alexa and Cortana onboard too. Hello, Amazon and Microsoft?<p>&quot;Hey Siri, ask (Google|Alexa|Cortana)...&quot;<p>Put them all behind the same interface, on the same device. Let us figure out which one actually works best -- though I&#x27;d rather have a &quot;team&quot; of digital assistants.

I&#x27;m much more a fan of anthropomorphised voice assistants. Maybe it&#x27;s because I identify as a socialist, but saying &quot;OK [big brand], everytime is very grating. And &quot;OK&quot; is very awkward, &quot;Alexa&quot; for me is far easier.

&quot;Hey Siri, Ok Google, Alexa, Hey Cortana&quot;

Aaand its not available outside of US for how many years now?

Anybody have clear instructions on how to enable this?

Wow, awkward

I think we should genericise it to “oi! Phone!”