On many occasions, you may have needed the help of your own mobile device to find the correct word, a specific application or some type of information. However, by yourself you could not find what you longed for. But, luckily, within the Android mobile settings we find the so-called ‘ suggestions ‘, although in different sections of the Settings menus themselves.
For this reason, we will explain all those suggestions that you can configure on your phone to help you on certain occasions to carry out different actions, be it answering a message quickly, finding an application in a more agile way, among other functionalities.
Use the Google Assistant
One of the great additions of Android phones is that we can choose to use the Google Assistant to offer us all kinds of recommendations related to our conversations with this assistant, such as the Smart Reply function and suggested actions. We can do the following with this software from the American company that is implemented on smartphones with its operating system:
- Use suggestions: the Messages app, which comes by default, can show you recommendations so that the Google Assistant can give you more information about movies, restaurants and much more. So if you want more information, you will have to tap on a suggestion to open the Google Assistant.
- Find help with the Google Assistant: To search for information from the Google Assistant, open a conversation and tap Attach over the ‘+’ to Add. Next to the Google Assistant, you will have to touch an option to receive them.
- Ask the Google Assistant for help: for this intelligent software to provide us with the information we need at that moment, we must open a conversation and hold down Start or say ‘Hey Google’. We can also choose to say something specific like ‘Cinemas Nearby’.
- Quickly reply and share content with Smart Reply and suggested actions: At the bottom of a conversation, we may find Smart Reply recommendations or suggested actions based on recent messages. To send a suggested reply, you will need to touch a word or phrase. These responses cannot be edited. And in order to complete a suggested action we will have to touch on it.
Where to use it
Not only can we use Google’s own assistant on Android phones, but we also have other functions that will help us in a way that we had not imagined until now. We will only have to learn how to configure these suggestions on a mobile phone with the Mountain View company’s operating system.
For your chats
In this case, we will not talk about the quick answers that we saw previously through the assistant’s own recommendations, but we will talk about those that are shown thanks to the telephone keypad. And, there is no doubt that the mobile keyboard is used daily for practically everything, but above all to hold conversations. For this reason, it never hurts for the phone to help us at all times.
If you do not have this option enabled, you will have to follow these steps:
- We enter an app where we can use the keyboard.
- Then, we will touch on the gear wheel icon (or on the top three points of the keyboard> Settings).
- This will take us to the settings of the keyboard itself, where we will have to choose Spell correction.
- Inside, there will be the option called Show suggestion strip , which we must activate so that they appear.
And, as an extra, we can also enable the following options:
- Suggest next word.
- Show emoji suggestions.
- Show sticker suggestions.
- Suggest contacts.
In applications
The main function of these new recommendations, which began to be implemented in Android 11, is to save us previous steps to use applications, so that we do not have to search for apps, since they will all be available to us at the most opportune moment.
And all thanks to the artificial intelligence of the operating system , since the system itself will know our habits to know what software we will need at each moment of the day. Therefore, the more we use the smartphone, the better it can predict what we want to do at all times.
First of all, we must make sure that we have Android 11 and then we will only have to keep your finger pressed on any area of the phone’s home screen and click on the Configure screen option to be able to go to its settings. Then, we must click on the Suggestions section and enable or disable these two options:
- Suggestions in the list of all applications: these are those that will appear at the top of the application drawer.
- Suggestions on the home screen: corresponding to the new apps set at the bottom of the home.
To improve the result of these recommendations, we will always have the possibility of ending up fixing the apps . With this we will ensure that the app is maintained, that is, that it is always present at the bottom of the screen. To do this, we will have to hold it down when it appears and touch the small pushpin button. Although we can also prevent some applications from being displayed as a suggestion.
For this, we will have to access the settings by pressing on the home screen and then entering the main screen settings> suggestions> blocked applications. Here, we will be shown a list of all the installed applications to choose from among them which one we do not want to be shown again at the bottom of the main panel of your Android phone or above the app drawer.
For the lock screen
Another option that has nothing to do with chats and messages that we write this option that will show us useful information and recommendations about calendars, reminders that we had set, flights and many more. In addition, all this will be shown to us on the lock screen of the Android mobile. Of course, we must go on to activate it. To do this, we must follow the following steps:
- Access the settings.
- Use the quick search engine and enter Personal Results .
- Activate the Personal Suggestions option on the lock screen without having to ask.
You can even activate another extra to give you information of interest when you have headphones connected. To do this, enable the second option of Personal results: On the headphones .
