Google Assistant is finally available on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4

Good news for owners of Samsung Galaxy Watch 4: The wait is over. Google Assistant is at last We hope you enjoy this show Starting from today.

Google Assistant for Wear OS 3 is available for download in the Google Play Store and can be launched from the list of Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 4 Classic apps. However, you can also use voice commands to open the Google Assistant or reprogram the watch’s home button as a shortcut.

This update has been around for a long time. When Google and Samsung first announced Wear OS 3, the two companies promised that the unified platform would give Samsung smartwatch users more choices in apps. Previously, Samsung smartwatches based on Tizen could only offer Bixby as a digital assistant. The idea was that Wear OS 3 would allow consumers to choose between Bixby and the Google Assistant. The same applies to apps like Google Pay.

Google Assistant has been noticeably absent from the Galaxy Watch 4 since its launch last year. Despite users’ frustration, Google and Samsung continued to remain ambiguous about when the Assistant would arrive. He says a little more than “soon.”

However, the wait was clearly coming to an end in the run-up to this year’s Google I/O conference. First, Verizon’s implicit assistant was already available in the update history at the end of April. (has not been.) A few days later, Samsung uploaded a teaser video to YouTube View Assistant on Galaxy Watch 4. Then, right after the Google I / O keynote earlier this month, Samsung confirmed this assistant It was up “this summer”.

The only “surprising” thing about today’s announcement is how close it will arrive after the I/O conference. (After all, it’s been less than two weeks since I/O, and it’s not yet official summer.) Then again, it makes sense that it ships sooner And not later. At I / O, Google confirmed that it will include more Google services Next Pixel watch When it launches this fall — and it’s hard to imagine the Pixel Watch without an assistant.