When Will My Phone Get Google Assistant?


It’s the feature we’ve all been waiting for, but many of us are still without Google Assistant so when will it actually arrive.

The most talked about feature these days is Google’s own Google Assistant, an artificial intelligence which brings a Siri-like personal assistant to Android smartphones. The feature first arrived on the Pixel and Pixel XL, but last week it was announced that other Android phones would get the feature too.

According to Google, any Android smartphone running Android 6.0 or higher with at least a HD display and 1.5GB RAM could receive the update, but that’s no guarantee that all phones with those specs will.

At the time of writing, we’ve heard that some OnePlus 3 owners are already reporting that they’ve received an OTA update to Google Services which has enabled the assistant, but I and many of you are still waiting for the update.

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Of course, I can’t give you the exact date that you will receive the Google Assistant update on your Android smartphone, but I do have a few tips to try and speed the process up.

First of all, you should change your Android language to English U.S as Google is first rolling Assistant out to U.S English devices first then other English phones. Another tip which might help you receive GA earlier is to join the Google Service Beta program.

Other than that all we can do is wait until the update slowly rolls out.

Do you have Google Assistant on your Android device? If so please tell us which phone you are running, where you are and any of your own tips to enable it.

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26 Comments

  1. arrowthefirst
    March 7, 2017

    actually it was rather easy to make it work on any nougat phone like mi5 even in 2016
    the provlem for them is only two languages

  2. Gurkarn
    March 7, 2017

    Just got the Google Assistant on my moto g4 plus in India

    • Sanjay S Gopal
      March 7, 2017

      How?

    • Peferd Da Costa
      March 8, 2017

      How?? I have Moto g4 plus. Can you help?

  3. CaptainTurk
    March 7, 2017

    Just got it on my S7 Edge running Nougat.

  4. Vasanth Singhvi
    March 7, 2017

    I’ve already signed up for google service beta program…
    I didn’t got yet..?

  5. Yashvardhan Ahlawat
    March 7, 2017
  6. Manish Chauhan
    March 7, 2017

    Join the google beta program on play store and after that uninstall your google play services to factory default and update it, and whooaaa you have your assistant on your marshmallow in india.I got it this morning.

  7. AIO TECH
    March 7, 2017

    I got in my redmi note 3 India just update to new Google play services and Google app and becom a beta tester.Today morning I was shocked

  8. Simon Hooker
    March 8, 2017

    Hi I just want to let everyone know that I have the UK variant of the one plus 3 running open beta 12 , and I just got GOOGLE ASSISTANT OTA .seems to be working fine thanks and regards….

  9. Ayesha Khan
    March 8, 2017

    I got google assistant on my Moto g3 india after setting language to english us and updating play service by beta

    • Peferd Da Costa
      March 8, 2017

      What is the play services exact version and Google apps version you are using?

      • Ayesha Khan
        March 8, 2017

        Google app 6 14 14 21 arm and play service 10 2 98

        • Peferd Da Costa
          March 8, 2017

          I have the exact same versions installed but no sign of Google assistant. Could please help Ayesha?

          • Ayesha Khan
            March 8, 2017

            Uninstall and reinstall and leave beta program and join again beta program and change language to english US and then press home button

    • Daksh Rao
      March 8, 2017

      I have Moto g4+ in India and with English us as default language and has updated to Google play services beta but I have not received the Google assistant

      • Ayesha Khan
        March 8, 2017

        Uninstall play service and google app then again install and then press home key long

  10. Rex Linaban
    March 8, 2017

    Yes I have Google assistant on my P9. I installed a beta version of Google play services to get it.

  11. Pat Kyger
    March 8, 2017

    Assistant showed up on my galaxy 7 edge last night. I have Google Play Services Beta.

  12. Tony B
    March 8, 2017

    I finally got Google Assistant last night on my non rooted Galaxy S5 with At&t.

  13. Corbin Baxter
    March 8, 2017

    Got assistant yesterday. Running LG X Power. It works great! Has all the features of assistant on the pixel!! (BTW, I’m not running any beta’s of any kind)

  14. S. Anthony Merendino
    March 8, 2017

    Ugh…. Nothing for me on my Axon 7. I’m trying to be patient. Not f#cking working

  15. mark s
    March 8, 2017

    I got it today. Nexus 6p. United kingdom