How To Turn Off The “OK Google” Android Voice Search

Google voice search is an apt competitor of Siri when it comes to the AI assistant in most of the Android smartphones. Google assistant is the basic AI for all the smartphones running on the Android platform, and Google voice search is one of the most crucial features of this assistant. With the help of Google voice search, you can easily access all your contacts, make calls, search anything over the internet, create a special calendar event, put an alarm, create a memo, play music and videos and this list goes beyond many other features as well.

How to Turn Off “Ok Google” on Your Android Device

However, although Google voice search has taken the entire Android experience to a whole new level, yet, there are users who do not want to carry out a voice search and rather, do all the above-mentioned tasks manually. Apart from this, there are people who are not well versed in English and are uncomfortable with the idea of speaking to their smartphones. So keeping this in mind, it is quite important to know how to turn off this feature on your Android-powered smartphones.

So, if you are also one of them, then there is a very simple and easy tutorial for you which will guide you throughout all the steps which you will need to carry out to turn off the Google voice search feature on your smartphone. It hardly takes any time and is very easy to understand.

• Click on the ‘Settings’ tab on your main menu.
• Navigate to the ‘General’ tab.
• On the drop-down menu, select ‘Personal’ and click on the ‘Language and Input’.
• There you will find ‘Google voice typing’; click on the Settings tab from the drop-down menu.
• Click on ‘Ok GoogleDetection’.
• You will now find a slider beneath the “From the Google app“; slide it towards your left.

Voila, you have now turned off your OK Google Detection on your Android smartphone.

Well, in case you do not find the settings tab on your phone, we still got you covered as we also have another way to achieve the same:

• Click on the Google app from your main menu
• On the top left corner of the main app page, you can see the menu icon, click on it
• On the dropdown menu, click on the settings tab, then ‘Voice’ and finally, you will get a page of ‘OK Google Detection’.
• Henceforth, you can easily choose to determine the situations where you would like to use your Google voice assistant on your smartphone.