Using the "Ok Google" hotword to outset a search or execute a command on your phone is a cool, useful feature. But I get that it's not for everyone—some folks but don't like talkingto their phones. Here'south how to get rid of information technology.

There are a couple of reasons why y'all may desire to disable the Ok Google functionality. Mayhap y'all never use it, so why go along information technology on? Perhaps yous tried it, but only experience bad-mannered speaking aloud to your telephone. But if I were a betting man, my guess would be that you're ill of the false positives during regular chat. That's totally understandable.

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But and so there's the question of Google Assistant, and how disabling "Ok Google" affects it. The good news is that—assuming your device has Banana in the start place—you can disable Ok Google without dramatically altering how Banana works. Instead of really saying the command to launch Assistant, you'll only launch it with a long-press of the home button (which is a native function in Assistant). If yous're looking to completely disable Assistant, you can practice that too.

So yeah, now that nosotros have that all out of the manner, let's talk about how to really plow this thing off.

There are actually 2 different places that you lot tin disable Ok Google, depending on whether or not your device has Google Assistant. The practiced news is that both locations are aware of each other, then disabling information technology in one place also disables it in the other. As such, we're going to cover the method that will piece of work for anybody, regardless of Assistant status: from the Google App.

Every Android phone has the Google App installed past default, equally this has go a cadre part of how Android works at this point. Then go alee and open the app drawer and look for "Google." Launch it.

From within the Google app, tap on the iii lines in the upper left corner (or just slide in from the left side. Tap "Settings."

If your device has Google Banana, youtin can access those settings from hither if y'all'd similar, but we're looking for more general selection: Voice. It's virtually iii-quarters of the way downwards this menu.

The second option hither should exist "Ok Google detection." Tap that.

Tap the slider next to "Say Ok Google" whatsoever time" to disable the feature. That's literally all at that place is to it.

Annotation: Your telephone may or may not accept the "Trusted Voice" option. This is irrelevant.

At present, that said, in that location is one thing to be aware of: OK Google will still activate if you're in the Google app or on the home screen when using the Google Now Launcher (which has now been discontinued). There'due south no fashion to disable this functionality. But at least disabling it everywhere else should dramatically cut back on false positives.