Google Assistant will soon tell you that day’s UV radiation

When you go out into the sun, you should always make sure you apply a good sunscreen. To help you with that, you can now ask the Google Assistant how the UV radiation is at any given time.

UV index

This feature was already added to the Wear OS weather app in April, but now it is becoming widely available. You request the UV index by saying, “Hey Google, what’s the UV index?” Then you get to see what the UV radiation will be like for the next ten hours. You get to see it in blocks of two hours. In addition to a number, we also see a color. Green is little, red-purple is a lot.

You are doing your skin a favor by applying sunscreen anyway. But, especially if the UV radiation is so high and you absolutely want to be or have to be outside, it is advisable to opt for a higher factor and to apply several times if the radiation tends more towards red-purple.

Not working yet

At the moment it does not work on the Dutch Google Assistant in any case. If you ask, she will tell you how the UV index is described on Wikipedia. Even if you ask how the UV radiation is today, she can’t help you. She just says she can understand.

Google gets the information about the radiation from the World Health Organization, combined with information from The Weather Channel. The latter is already a permanent partner for Google when it comes to the weather forecast.

Difference in display

Now the UV information on a wearable looks very different than on other devices. With the watch you can see the UV data next to the temperature forecast. That is not the case with Google Assistant on smartphones. It is still unrelated, but the hope is that it will be merged soon.

The Google Assistant will soon be equipped with this feature on Android, Nest and iOS. When exactly is unknown. There are other weather apps that already offer this feature.

Do you ever check how intense the UV radiation is? Would you like to hear that through the Google Assistant? Leave it in the comments.