All the orders that we give to our speakers and other devices compatible with a virtual assistant are recorded. With that information, the assistant offers personalized functions, searches, and results as we interact with it.
However, the user does not always want his requests to be saved or his tastes revealed in front of outsiders. For those specific moments, Google has introduced a replacement function. With Guest Mode, the device “doesn’t send what you say to Google or anyone else.”
By default, Google Assistant doesn’t keep audio recordings and you’ll ask it to delete activity from your account with this easy phrase: “Hey Google, delete everything I told you in the week .” However, the interactions are recorded within the account to stipulate your tastes. This is where the new Guest Mode comes in.
“Hey Google, activate Guest Mode”, with this phrase we will ask the device to not save the interactions that we are getting to give below and not show the private results that it usually indicates. If someone comes to your house and you want to use the assistant without revealing personal data, this function helps you protect your privacy.
This way you can hide your calendar entries, contacts, and other private data until you deactivate the Guest function. You will be able to continue using the assistant in a more secure and private way for a while, thus avoiding having to deactivate it to protect your data and not reveal some searches that you do regularly and that you don’t want the other person to know.
“We know that there are times when, for whatever reason, you may not want your own interactions with the Google Assistant to be saved and the decision will always be yours,” explains the company. Even so, the interactions can be saved in other applications, if we ask the assistant to play a video on YouTube, it will be reflected in the history of that app, for example.
At the moment, the function is only available to users of the English version, in the coming months it will be enabled for the rest of the languages. If you want more information, ask your speaker “Hey Google, tell me about Guest Mode.” In addition, the company has adjusted the sensitivity of its listening to avoid unintentional recordings which the assistant doesn’t think that we lecture him when hearing an identical word.
Via: Google Blog
