Use this nifty new Android feature to even work around a locked smartphone


The new Android feature is called 'Lock Screen' and it is available in Google Assistant's Popular Settings menu under Voice Match and Languages options, 9To5 Google reported. — Mockup vector created by rawpixel.com - www.freepik.com

Google, in the past couple of weeks, has rolled out a bunch of new features for Google Assistant. For instance, it rolled out a feature called Family Broadcast on Google Assistant's smartphone-based interface and renamed it 'Communication'.

It also rolled out a 'Your Apps' option in the settings menu that lets users manage how Google Assistant works with installed apps. Now, the company has released another feature that allows use of Google Assistant even when a user's smartphone is locked – his sounds like magic, surely.

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