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You can now talk to Google Assistant on your Nexus Player
June 15, 2025
TheNexus Playermay have officially beendiscontinued last year, but that hasn’t stopped Google showing its venerable media box some overdue love as of late. The ASUS-made device enjoyed a significant UI overhaul with the release ofAndroid 8.0 Oreoin recent months, and now Google is bringing Assistant to the former jewel in Android TV’s crown.
For any Nexus Player users out there eager to get talking toAssistant, it’s not exactly clear how the feature is being added at the moment, although the folks over atAndroid Policeseem to think that it may be delivered as part of Oreo’s November security patch. If that doesn’t work, your best bet is updating the Google app to its latest version.
Once Assistant is all set up, it can be activated by simply pressing the microphone button on the Nexus Player’s remote. If you’ve managed to lose your remote somewhere down the back of a sofa (it happens to us all), you can always install theAndroid TV Remote appon your phone and use that instead.
Read:What is Google Assistant? How can you use it?
Google Assistant has slowly made its way to more and more platforms since its debut on thePixelandPixel XLphones in late 2016, includingNvidia’s latest Shield TV playerand selectedAndroid TV-powered sets from Sony.
While it may seem like its taken Google an age to bring Assistant to the three-year-old Nexus Player, it still receives the somewhat dubious honor of being the latest device to enjoy support ahead of any Android tablet. Thankfully, it seems like the black sheep of the extended Android family will finally join the rest of its Assistant-enabled siblingsin the near future.
Do you still use a Nexus Player for watching movies? Let us know your thoughts on Assistant’s latest expansion in the comments.
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