10 great ways Google Assistant can help your life

Apple has Siri, Amazon has Alexa, and if you've got an Android phone, tablet or Google Nest speaker (née Google Home) , Google Assistant is your powerful artificially-intelligent companion, and it's available on smartphones and smart home devices.

There are plenty of things the voice-activated assistant can help you with that most users don’t even know it’s capable of doing.

To make sure you’re getting the most from your trusty voice-activated partner, we’ve gathered together some handy, but not necessarily obvious, Google Assistant features that will help to make it genuinely useful in loads of situations you might not have expected.