Google Assistant for iOS has been updated with native iPad support today. The design looks essentially the same as the iPhone version, but with an interface optimized for the larger 7.9-inch to 12.9-inch screen sizes of Apple's tablets.

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Like rivals Siri, Alexa, and Cortana, Google Assistant is a digital assistant that can set reminders, schedule calendar appointments, answer questions, and provide other information through machine learning techniques.

Apple only allows third-party assistants to function within their apps, however, limiting their usefulness versus Siri on iPhone and iPad. For example, Google Assistant can't be invoked with a voice command when an iOS device is locked.

Nevertheless, iPad users now have one more option to choose from alongside Siri, Alexa, and Cortana. Google Assistant is free on the App Store.

Update: Google has shared a press release highlighting a few ways its assistant can be used around the house:

- Set the mood by having the Assistant "dim the lights"
- Cast to your TV by asking the Assistant to "watch the latest news on the living room TV"
- Stay in touch by asking the Assistant to "video call mom" or "text Lauren"
- Keep up with your chores by asking the Assistant to "remind me to take out the recycling at 8 PM"

Google Assistant for iPad is currently available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish.

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Top Rated Comments

HJM.NL Avatar
66 months ago
Nice to have a good assistant on the iPad. Lame Apple is limiting its functionality and not improving Siri.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
StellarVixen Avatar
66 months ago
Then why come to a site like MacRumors? A site that hosts all it's videos on Google owned YouTube?
Who am I to say MacRumors where to host their videos? They are free to do whatever they want. I am passionate opponent of Google for the reasons which are very good known to me, and I am not gonna force anyone to do anything. My opinion is my opinion, and do not wish to force it on anyone.

I have noticed that all of you Google apologists are using the same mantra, it is like someone installs this same code inside you, like you are all programmed in the same factory, so you go around and repeat: "Why do you do that, why do you this, if you (x) than why you (y)"... Do you realize that Google has taken pretty much monopoly over the great part of the Internet, and that whichever path you take, you will eventually reach one of the Google's services? Trying to totally avoid the Google in my life would be almost equal to stopping using the Internet at all".
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
StellarVixen Avatar
66 months ago
Google is tireless, it seems. All that data mining must be making Google's CPUs red hot...Google can also start providing central heating to the USA, giving how much waste heat their CPUs generate from all that tireless personal info processing. There you go, another "source of income". Don't worry, it will be free. You know, with Google, everything is "free" (if you don't read the fine print).
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
WatchFromAfar Avatar
66 months ago
Google is tireless, it seems. All that data mining must be making Google's CPUs red hot...Google can also start providing central heating to the USA, giving how much waste heat their CPUs generate from all that tireless personal info processing. There you go, another "source of income". Don't worry, it will be free. You know, with Google, everything is "free" (if you don't read the fine print).
Then why come to a site like MacRumors? A site that hosts all it's videos on Google owned YouTube?
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
barkomatic Avatar
66 months ago
Too bad Apple won't let it activate with a voice command without actually opening the app. If Apple isn't going to bother to improve Siri then they need to concede on this point. It used to be voice assistants were little more than a gimmick, but the good ones are actually getting useful. Siri sadly is still a gimmick with a pretty colorful image that undulates when spoken to.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
CarpalMac Avatar
66 months ago
I am passionate opponent of Google for the reasons which are very good known to me
So you're saying of this evil company that you don't and haven't ever made use of their many "free" services? Not to look at the location of a store on a map? No street or satellite viewing? Not even to search for an Apple rumor website?

So passionate apponent would surely never do such a thing.

Definite smell of double standards around here all of a sudden...
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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