Use Google Assistant to Send, Request Money

Owe someone coin? You lot tin can now pay them back with just your vocalization, thanks to Google Assistant.

Simply say "Hey Google, send Angela $xv," for instance, and the virtual banana will transfer the funds to your contact using Google Pay. Y'all can as well utilize this new feature to request money from someone; just say: "Hey Google, asking $x from Angela."

Announced and launched Th, this feature works with Assistant on Android and iOS phones in the U.s.a., and Google plans to expand information technology to phonation-activated speakers such as Google Habitation "in the coming months." Besides being super user-friendly, this new feature is free to apply.

For security purposes, you'll demand to either enter your Google account password or use your fingerprint for verification of every payment, Google said.

If you lot've never used Google Pay, no sweat: as soon as you lot ask Assistant to transport or request money you lot'll be prompted to set up a Google Pay account.

"Funds are transferred almost instantaneously, fifty-fifty if the recipient doesn't have a Google Pay account," Google Pay Product Director Sam Kansara explained in a web log post. When the transaction goes through, the recipient volition receive an e-mail, text message, or notification on their phone and so they can collect the funds.

This new feature comes after Google in Feb unified its payment systems—including Android Pay and Google Wallet—into i brand, Google Pay, to brand the checkout experience "simpler, safer and more consequent." Google Pay lets you shop virtual versions of your payment cards, so use your phone to buy goods at participating retailers.

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Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's skillful on fitness and smart home products. Teaching yoga for almost 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fitness trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength training machines, treadmills, and more. Angela also tests smart home devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, only to proper noun a few.