Google Assistant can help you find your lost iPhone, even when it is in silent mode. A new functionality that may be interesting for all those users who have a company smart speaker or any other compatible with Google’s voice assistant.
Ok Google, find my iPhone
Google Assistant is now able to help you find your lost iPhone in the same way that it has been offering this for Android devices for some time. But before explaining how it works, let’s talk about why it could be interesting. Especially when you already have a native option for this purpose, Find my iPhone .
As you know, Find My iPhone or, rather, Find My is Apple‘s service that allows you to locate all the company’s devices that have been associated with the same Apple ID. Thus, when you start a new iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, etc., it is registered to your account and you can always know where the product is located or where its position was last registered.
Of course, this tool is not only used for that, one of the great values is that it allows you to send the order to block the device in case of total loss or theft. In addition to another order so that its content is removed as soon as it connects to a network.
Therefore, with so many options and much more complete starting points than what Google is going to offer you through Google Assistant, why is it interesting?
Well, having more options is always attractive and being able to tell a voice assistant to help you detect your iPhone as well. And there are many users who despite having an iPhone, an iPad or other Apple devices bet on Google Home and other Assistant-compatible speakers as a voice control solution for home automation. Not counting those who coexist with both the iOS and Android ecosystems.
For this reason, it is interesting that Google adds this new option. Because although Find my will be much more powerful, to be able to locate your lost device at home it will be practical.
How the Google Assistant search option works
This new function or tool introduced in Google Assistant and that allows you to locate or, at least, help you find your lost iPhone more easily, works very simply. All you have to do is install the Google Home app on your device .
Thanks to this and the permission that Google must have received from Apple to send critical alerts , even with your iPhone in silent mode, the Google assistant is able to send a notification that will make the device sound. This is how you can receive that sound alert that will help you locate the terminal.
So, if you are a user of a smart speaker or device with Google Assistant and you have an iPhone with the Google Home application installed, now you can rely on it for when you do not know where you left the iPhone. That, yes, we hope it is always at home or somewhere where you can recover it.
