Google Assistant is a powerful AI assistant that can do a lot of things, like control your smart home and help you with your daily tasks. But one thing it can’t do is filter out profanity. If you want to use Google Assistant to swear, you’ll have to disable the filter. Here’s how:
- Open Google Assistant on your phone or computer.
- Tap the three lines in the top left corner of the screen.
- Under “Settings,” tap “Language & input.”
- Under “Language settings,” tap “Profanity detection and filtering.”
- Uncheck the box next to “Enable profanity detection and filtering for all languages (including English).” ..
By default, Google Assistant will filter any bad words that you wouldn’t want to use in front of children. It’s the safer choice, but for adults who prefer their language a little spicier, you might want to turn the *!@$ing filter off.
Google’s profanity filter is weirdly inconsistent. When transcribing text or reading search results aloud, Google will censor stronger words, but has no problem with words like “hell” or “damn.” However, search results are a little inconsistent. For example, if I open Google Assistant and search for “fucking hell,” Google will display both words on the screen and show me a search card for the German pilsner I was obviously searching for. However, it will only read the second word aloud uncensored. Obviously, this helps make sure that kids in the room don’t hear really bad words, but if you don’t have children, it’s a frustratingly inconsistent feature.
To turn it off, open Google Assistant on your phone by long-pressing your phone’s Home button. Tap the menu icon on the right, then tap Settings.
Scroll down and tap Voice.
Disable the toggle that says “Block offensive words.”
This process should work if you have any Android smartphone running Android Marshmallow or higher. For older phones, you can also change this from your Settings app. Open up the Settings app on your phone and scroll down to “Languages & input.”
Next, tap “Virtual keyboard.”
Tap “Google voice typing.”
Disable the “Block offensive words” toggle.
Both options should allow you to send messages with as many unholy and improper words as you’d like. Google may still censor some words when read aloud, but you’re still free to be as profane as you’d like.
