"Hey Google" wakeup command for phones seeing more widespread roll out now

Himanshu, 18 December 2017

It was a couple of months ago, when Google started rolling out the ability to activate Search or Assistant on phones by saying "Hey, Google". It was a limited roll out initially, but the command is seeing a more widespread roll out now.

You'll need to re-setup the voice model for this new setting to work - a notification asking the same should appear on your Android phone (if haven't already). Manually, you can do this by heading to Settings -> Google -> Voice.

Once done, you can use both "Okay, Google" and "Hey, Google" to perform Google searches or bring up the Assistant.

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Reader comments

Roy-86
19 Dec 2017
kBG

I used to use the hey Google hotword to activate my google homes in the house as okay google would activate my phone as well. But soon, I won't be able play this trick anymore.

Anonymous
18 Dec 2017
P@Y

Why I use this awkward command when I can simply say " Ok JERVUS" to my moto x2 x3 and moto z's to activate google? LOL Motorola is way better than this.