Google Assistant on Stadia

Enable the Google Assistant on Stadia

1. Open the Stadia app on your phone.
2. In the top right, tap your avatar  Settings  Google Assistant. 
3. Tap the slider next to Enable Assistant button on Stadia Controllers. 

Note: if you’re on iOS, you will need to download the Google Assistant app first in order to opt-into using the Assistant. 

Enable personal results

If you allow personal results, the Assistant can access your personal information, like your home address or calendar appointments, to customize answers to your questions.

1. Open the Stadia app on your phone.
2. In the top right, tap your avatar  Settings  Google Assistant. 
3. Tap More Settings  the slider next to Personal results. 

Important: If you allow personal results, anyone speaking to the Assistant while using your Stadia account can access your information.

Talk to your Google Assistant on Stadia

You can talk to your Google Assistant when your Stadia Controller is linked to your Chromecast and the Stadia app is open. Support for the Assistant when playing on mobile and web is coming soon.

1. Press the Assistant button  on the Stadia Controller.
2. Ask a question or say a command. 

All Stadia Controllers linked to an active Stadia session on your Chromecast can control your Google Assistant. For example, if you start a conversation with your Assistant, any player can ask a question by pressing the Assistant button on their own linked controller. 

The Assistant is currently only available when you’re on the Stadia homepage. Support for the Assistant during gameplay is coming soon. 

What you can ask your Assistant

Here are some things you can ask your Assistant.

• What time is it?
• What’s the weather?
• Flip a coin.

If you’ve enabled personal results, you can also ask your Assistant for personalized help.

• What’s on my schedule tomorrow?
• How’s the traffic to work?

Playing media, like music or videos, is not currently supported when using the Assistant with Stadia. 

Learn more about what you can ask the Google Assistant.

Start a game with your Assistant 

To start a game on Stadia with your Assistant, you can use either your Stadia Controller or a connected Assistant device, such as your phone or a Google Home speaker.

Note: The game must already be in your library.

• To use your Stadia Controller, press the Stadia button and say, “Play <game name>.” 
• To use your connected Assistant device, you’ll need to add the name of your Chromecast Ultra to the command. For example, say “OK Google, play Destiny 2 on Livingroom TV.”  
  • You do not need to enable the Assistant in Stadia settings in order for this to work. 
  • Your Stadia account and Assistant device must be linked to the same Google Account. 
  • If you’ve linked multiple accounts with matching Voice Match IDs to your Assistant device  (because all the accounts belong to you), you might need to disable Voice Match on your other non-Stadia accounts, or unlink them from your device. 

Privacy

• All controllers playing a local multiplayer session on Stadia will be attached to the account of the person signed into Stadia. This means that when any player talks to the Assistant, their questions and commands are saved to your account. You can delete what they said at myactivity.google.com. 
• If you’ve enabled personal results, anyone playing on your account can access your personal information by asking the Assistant.