You can now have custom action buttons on Wear OS with a new Google Assistant tile Leave a comment

How does it work?

When you first open the tile, you are prompted to set up actions by either creating your own or choosing from a list of suggestions. If you choose to create your own, you can then speak your request just as if you were asking the assistant, and a new action button gets created with it. You can have up to two of these customizable buttons.

Setting up the Assistant tile and Assistant actions on Wear OS

From that point on, in order to trigger these actions without having to speak to the watch, you can simply press these buttons and let the assistant work its magic. I find this particularly helpful for smart home actions like turning lights off or for setting quick reminders. This is also helpful if you want to keep the conversation between you and the Assistant quiet, but just remember that if you don’t want the assistant to audibly speak back to you, you must turn off the “Speech output” toggle on your watch’s Assistant settings menu.