How to Use the Daily Update Feature in Your Actions

A daily update is a notification that appears on users’ devices at a pre-scheduled time. This is useful if your Action can provide valuable information to users every day and you want to remind them about it. When prompted to subscribe, users invoke an intent of your Action that’s configured with daily updates and then follow the daily update registration prompt. The daily update prompt can appear mid-conversation or as a suggestion chip when the user exits your Action successfully.

If you use the daily update feature, make sure to only offer it if your Action makes sense for the user to jump straight to this intent without having much conversation context. Also, be careful to avoid repeating the daily update registration prompt in multiple contexts. Instead, only offer it right after you’ve shown the value your Action offers and make sure to keep the rest of the conversation short so that it doesn’t take up too much of the user’s screen. You can test your daily updates by logging in to an Assistant-enabled device and then testing one of the intents you’ve configured for this feature.