Now you can send money to your contacts by asking your Google Assistant

Earlier today, Google announced that now users will be able to send and receive money by only asking your Google Assistant with Google Pay service.(Only in the US) users of any Android or iOS phone will be able to send and receive money starting today, you just need to ask your assistant to send money to a specific contact and it will show you how to setup your Google Pay account if you don’t have one already. Both sender and receiver should have an account on Google Pay.

Google Pay was introduced by the beginning of this year after merging Google Wallet and Android Pay, coming from the same company, the two services made a lot of confusion before.

Of course, you can’t send money that easy, you need some kind of a verification, like your fingerprint or your password. However, Google said that the same feature will be available on Google Home devices, and here’s a question of how will the user be able to verify himself before sending the money?.

Although this is a good step for Google to make, we can say that Google is still behind Apple when it comes to this point. Right now you can ask Siri to send money to someone and it will ask you back which service do you want to use? Apple Pay, Venmo, or Square Cash, while with Google Assistant you can only use Google Pay.

 

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