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You can tell the new Google Assistant to be less chatty with its responses
June 22, 2025
“Hey Google, turn on the kitchen lights,” is something you might say multiple times per day. Each time,Google Assistantmight deliver you a full response: “OK, turning off the kitchen lights.” Is that really necessary?
Thankfully, Assistant’s long-winded responses to some of your queries could be a thing of the past. The “new” Google Assistant — the updated version of the AI interface that ships with theGoogle Pixel 4— comes with an option to instruct Assistant to be briefer with its responses (viaAndroid Police).
If you own a Pixel 4, you can find this new setting by visiting your Assistant’s settings. Follow these instructions:
Once there you should see one of two screens. If you’re on a non-Pixel 4 device (or a Pixel 4 device that hasn’t received this server-side update yet), you’ll see the screenshot on the left. If you’re on the Pixel 4 running the latest server-side update for Google Assistant, you’ll see the image on the right:
Although we don’t have first-hand experience with this new feature (our Pixel 4 XL does not have the server-side update yet),Android Policesays that it might be a bittooeffective at the moment. Some of the questionsAPasked received silent responses, even ones that should have had at least a little bit of a vocal response.
Google is likely still working out the kinks, hence why our Pixel 4 XL doesn’t have the update yet.
Still, this is a welcome change and will likely be a popular feature once it’s ironed out and easily available to all.
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