How to create a Google Assistant driving mode shortcut

When we drive we can't be distracted even for a second and the cell phone is a great temptation. How many times have we seen people driving while checking their devices? Fortunately, one of the most used apps, Google Assistant, allows us to do this create a shortcut to driving mode to avoid distractions and accidents.

Once the shortcut is created we can make a call, answer one, send messages, listen to music, etc. All using our voice to avoid being distracted from such an important task where a simple mistake can cost everyone involved dearly.

Google Assistant can read a web page, you can do many things with it. Making our life easier and making our car journey safer is another of its great virtues. Let's see a little further down how to create a shortcut for driving mode.

Create a Google Assistant driving mode shortcut

The first thing we need is to navigate to a place. For this we will open Google Maps on our device and look for where to go. Next, we press "Start" to start browsing.

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We will see a black navigation bar at the bottom of the screen, this is the driving mode menu. At this point, we will press the grid icon to open the application launcher.

driving mode.

Next, we will have to press the floating button "Add driving modes to the home screen".

Add to home screen, create shortcut.

A menu should appear that will allow us to add it to the home screen. It will look like something different, it will depend on the home screen launcher (launcher) we use. Click "Add to Home Screen".

We created the direct access driving mode

The shortcut will be added to our home screen and we can tap on it to go directly to driving mode.

And basically, that's it. This is a quicker and easier way to enter driving mode. From this section we can use a large number of practical commands using "OK Google" or by pressing the microphone of the Assistant

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