How to Customize Your Daily Briefing on Google Assistant

Last Updated: May 25, 2021 Tested

This wikiHow teaches you how to customize Google Assistant’s daily briefing (called My Day), as well as how to receive news updates at specified times.

Method 1

Method 1 of 2:
Customizing your My Day Summary

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Tap and hold the home button. It’s the button you normally use to access the home screen. This opens Google Assistant on Android devices running Marshmallow or higher.^{[1]
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- Some devices may have a separate Google Assistant icon that looks like a yellow speech bubble on a white background.
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Tap the menu icon. It’s the blue icon with a white rectangle at the top-right corner of the screen.

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Tap ⁝. It’s at the top-right corner of the screen.
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Tap Settings.
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Scroll down and tap My Day.
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Toggle the check boxes next to each option. The options in the first section (“My Day summary includes…”) each have corresponding check boxes. Check the boxes next to the options you want in your summary, and uncheck those you don’t.
- To get the most from the Weather and Work commute options, tap their corresponding gear icons to set up custom locations.
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Select News options. You have the option of hearing summarized news stories at the end of your daily briefing.
- To enable daily news briefings, select “News,” then tap the gear icon to choose your favorite news sources.
- If you don’t want to hear the news, select “Nothing additional.”
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Tap the back button to return to Google Assistant. Your My Day summary is now customized.
- To hear your My Day summary, open Google Assistant and say (or type) “Tell me about my day”
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Method 2

Method 2 of 2:
Adding Custom News Subscriptions

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Tap and hold the home button. In addition to your My Day summary, you can add additional daily briefings from other sources.
- The home button is the one you normally use to access the home screen. This should open Google Assistant.
- Some devices may have a separate Google Assistant icon that looks like a yellow speech bubble on a white background. If the home button doesn’t work, tap that instead.
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Tap Say Something or the keyboard icon. You may see one or the other, depending on your settings.
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Type or say What can you do?. Google Assistant will respond with a list of tiles. You can scroll through them to view available options.
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Tap Subscriptions. It’s the tile with a blue clock icon.
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Tap the message that says ”Send me news daily”. It’s at the bottom of the screen. Some top news headlines will appear.
- You may also see other types of subscriptions, such as “Send me poems daily.” Select any of these options if you desire.
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Tap Send daily. It’s just beneath the headlines.
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Tap the time you want to receive daily updates. You will now receive news updates at the time you selected.

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