PC World - USA (2019-12)

126 PCWorld DECEMBER 2019

HERE’S HOW GOOGLE ASSISTANT

(United States).

That should trigger the

new Assistant

on your Pixel 4 even

if your location

is elsewhere.

TURN ON

GESTURE

NAVIGATION

Google offers two

ways to navigate the

Pixel 4, the new

gesture-based

navigation and the old

3-button nav bar.

However, the new Assistant works only with the

newer gesture navigation. So if you opted to

stick with the old buttons, you’ll need to swap

them out in the

System settings to use

the new Assistant.

CHECK

YOUR

GOOGLE

ACCOUNT

A Google account is

basically a

prerequisite for

owning a Pixel 4,

but if you have a G

Suite for Business

account it’s going to

cause problems with the new Assistant. It’s

not clear why, but if you have a G Suite

account on your phone, even if it’s not your

The new Google Assistant is U.S.-only at launch, so you’ll need to pick English

(United States) to get it to work.

You’ll need to turn on gesture navigation to use the new Google Assistant.