Google Testing new expanded settings for Assistant.

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While Assistant can be helpful to get a answer to a question or play your favorite music, Assistant works in many other ways, it reminds you of events, flight times, bill dues. you can choose to receive these reminders from Assistant or not by simply toggling 'Get Assistant emails' in Assistant settings.

But now Google is testing new expanded settings in Assistant which will let you take full control of what notification you receive from your Assistant in your phone, Google rolled out these expanded settings in Assistant to some users, but you can't choose to participate in the beta by your own, Android Police reports.

Previously these settings were in Google App's notification settings but now the settings were moved straight to Assistant settings, where the previous email notification setting is still present but the new settings to choose what mobile notifications you receive from the assistant on your phone were added.

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These new settings contains more categories like Extended Responses, Tips and Tricks, Reminders, Help with tasks, Subscriptions. Each category will contain related settings to customize your assistant notifications, Extended Responses include movie showtimes, Maps and directions, sports updates etc. Tips and Tricks will show you notifications on new ways the Assistant can help you.

Help with tasks include Flight, Bus and Train updates, Bill reminders etc. If you choose to receive Subscription notifications, Assistant will notify about the topics you follow on google, and also Assistant will let you pick sources in a specific topic that you follow.