How to Get Personal Results on Your Lock Screen

Turning on lock screen personal results means you can use Google Assistant when you’ve locked your phone to do anything from sending emails to asking questions about your calendar.

What You Can Do With Assistant When Phone Is Locked

If you allow Google Assistant to display personal results on the lock screen, you can send messages, make calls, and ask questions without unlocking. Turning this on allows voice match to send messages and access email, calendar, contacts, and more when your phone is locked. It can also read or show results on the lock screen from:

Emails, including information about flight reservations and upcoming billsGoogle Calendar eventsYour contactsRemindersShopping lists

However, you’ll still need to unlock your Android for anything involving:

PaymentsGoogle PhotosRequests to open other appsInformation related to your name or address

How to Disable Google Assistant on Lock Screen

You can quickly turn off this setting if you no longer want personal results on your lock screen.