Google Assistant: Incredibly useful features that can make your life easier

As it's designed to do so much, it isn't the company's most intuitive product

Google Assistant is one of the tech giant's most important creations.

It's an intelligent virtual helper that taps into Google's vast wealth of knowledge, and is designed to always be on hand to make your life a little bit easier.

You can ask it questions, tell it to do things for you and even get it to crack jokes.

Assistant is available on a multitude of smartphones and Google Home, and is capable of linking with an ever-growing number of popular services and devices.

It's also smart enough to recognise lots of different voices and remember all of the individual accounts, preferences and interests associated with them.

Google is trying to make it as capable and accessible as it can possibly be, and it's growing better by the month.

However, because it's designed to do so many things, Assistant isn't exactly Google's most intuitive product.

We’ve rounded up a selection of the best Google Assistant tips and tricks. Click on the gallery below to start browsing.

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