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Google Assistant 's regular snapshot feature contains birthday updates and meal suggestions.
Google is expanding the "Snapshot" functionality in Assistant, adding fresh alerts and more helpful tips for new things that you may like to try out.
The original version of Snapshot showed details such as your average journey time, upcoming timetable, alerts, upcoming flights, new online orders, and stock market updates. Google attaches extra updates to the page for events like coming birthdays or holidays, too.
The revamped Snapshot View would also broaden the recommendations — where the app previously recommended YouTube videos or Spotify songs, the modified version will use the current usage data to include fresh meal suggestions, podcasts, or restaurants to order. Such recommendations will always refresh over the course of the day, much like the rest of the Snapshot mode (so you won't get ideas for breakfast recipes at dinner time).
To make Snapshot more convenient, Google is introducing a new way to access it: now, you can bring up your image at any point in the Assistant app by saying, Hey Google, show me my day, in addition to pressing the Snapshot button in the app. (The voice order function is currently available to consumers with English as their main language, but will expand out with more languages in the future.)
Finally, Google is adding birthday notifications to Assistant's update options. If it's one of your contacts' birthdays, Assistant will give you an warning, take you straight to the action card where you can quickly dial, tweet, or sing a special birthday song.
The new capabilities of Google Assistant are also included in the iOS and Android Assistant applications.
