Google Assistant on Galaxy S8+ setting question

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Geektastic

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# 214632 22-May-2017 09:28

I have the Assistant set up to give me news sources.

I want to remove one of the news sources.

I've searched on the web and to do this, I should enter settings by clicking on the 3 dots in the upper right of the Assistant window, open news and select/deselect the sources.

However...

When I do that, my Settings page has absolutely no 'News' option at all.

Does anyone know what to do to fix that?

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# 1785780 22-May-2017 09:31

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If you are on version 7.2 of the Google app you will need to change your device language to English US as the settings are broken/missing for other languages.

Then it is blue button at top right of assistant screen > 3 dot > Settings > News

You can change the device language back when you are done.

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# 1785791 22-May-2017 09:44

Ah - that fixed it! Thanks!

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# 1785803 22-May-2017 09:56

Thanks I was wondering why I had Google Now until I realised I had English (NZ). Changed to English (United States) and I get Google Assistant!

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# 1785812 22-May-2017 10:23

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tehgerbil:

Thanks I was wondering why I had Google Now until I realised I had English (NZ). Changed to English (United States) and I get Google Assistant!

You can use English UK as well which give better localisation options (date formatting etc) and IMO much better TTS esp for navigation. But you will need to get the set up done as US first then switch, though this is dependent on your Google app version; 7.1 works fine, 7.2 beta is broken for anything but US.

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# 1786241 22-May-2017 20:46

I've got Google assistant working with Australian English enabled.

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# 1786664 23-May-2017 13:22

1eStar: I've got Google assistant working with Australian English enabled.

It will work with UK English too but you can't access the full setup options without switching to US English and then back again when you are done.

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# 1786840 23-May-2017 15:22

i've noticed lately the swipe to dismiss google now cards has broken .. have to tap into the three dots to clear a story and it keeps coming back..

can fix it temporarily if you clear cache and data from nthe google app but it eventually starts doing it again .

btw ... almost tempted to switch back to google now on tap vs the assistant ... GNOT works a hell of a lot better with the screen search function, and assistant lacks the fine tune feature to select txt in a photo..