{"id":215874,"date":"2017-06-19T09:46:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T07:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=215874"},"modified":"2017-06-19T09:47:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T07:47:35","slug":"you-can-replace-google-assistant-with-cortana-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/215874-you-can-replace-google-assistant-with-cortana-on-android.html","title":{"rendered":"You can replace Google Assistant with Cortana on Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest update for the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.microsoft.cortana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cortana app<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0on the Google Play store allows Android users to set it as their default assistant.<\/p>\n<p>Setting Cortana as the default assistant allows users to access it via a long-press of the home button.<\/p>\n<p>Cortana for Android allows users to access reminders, alarms, and information saved from Office 365 documents or Outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Cortana currently cannot be accessed via an OS-wide voice command, and is available for Android 4.4 and up.<\/p>\n<p>To set Cortana as the default assistant on Android, you will need to update the application to version 2.8.0.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/206520-raspberry-pi-3-gets-microsoft-cortana.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Raspberry Pi 3 gets Microsoft Cortana<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest update for the Cortana app on the Google Play store allows Android users to set it as their default assistant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":158089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[397,24388,10100],"class_list":["post-215874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-android","tag-cortana","tag-google-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216050,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215874\/revisions\/216050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}