When Google announced its Android M plan in June this year, almost everyone thought it was a small upgrade version of Android 5.0 Lollipop, which was not up to the "6.0" standard. However, it turns out that Android M is Android 6.0, largely because Now on Tap is the most noteworthy new feature in Android 6.0.

Since Google Now was released with Android 4.1, Google has never stopped upgrading it. Google is not satisfied with just treating Google Now as a language assistant. Now on Tap can be understood as an evolutionary version of Google Now. From the literal meaning of Now on Tap, we can roughly guess the function of Now on Tap. Tap means click. Now means Google Now, and connected means click Google Now. The original user who wants to use Google Now must enter the Google Now interface and then use the language or input. Now on Tap provides a more convenient and intelligent Google Now experience.

The addition of Now on Tap enables users to press and hold the Home key in any program, and Now on Tap will create a Now card based on the content information displayed in the program. It includes text music, movies, pictures, etc., and predicts the answers you want to know, all of which requires you to press the Home key on your mobile phone.

Take a few simple examples. For example, when your friend sends a message asking you to go to a restaurant for dinner, as long as you press the Home button Now on Tap, you will be able to give the specific location of the restaurant, phone number and comments. Now on Tap settings can automatically add your friend's appointment time to your schedule, and remind you to attend the appointment on time.

Not only that, the text Now on Tap on the mobile phone screen can be intelligently recognized. Even when users listen to music on their mobile phones or long press the Home key Now on Tap while watching a movie, they can tell you the original song of the song, the song of composition, the name of the movie, the evaluation, the main actor and other information.

There are also pictures. For example, search for picture information in Instagram, press and hold the Home key to call out Now on Tap, and then use voice questions to "find out more pictures about this place". Now on Tap can automatically recognize pictures and give users the answers they want.

Now on Tap is the fastest and most convenient way to help users meet their needs. It is very simple to use, and it largely frees users' mouth and hands. It can be said to be the most significant upgrade since the release of Google Now. As Chennapragada, Google's product manager, said, "In the desktop computer era, search is a white box. With Now on Tap in the mobile era, people no longer need to use the search box to access the Internet. This is an epoch-making innovation. Your mobile phone is no longer just a tool for accessing the Internet, but increasingly becomes a part of the Internet."

Although the new Siri on iOS 9 is more proactive and timely in providing information to users, Siri is more closely integrated with Spotlight than ever before. It has stronger learning ability and will learn the user's usage habits to push information or open applications. For example, when you wake up every morning, you can push social news or news. Or, before you go to bed, open the music application to play light music. But now on Tap, which is relatively more intelligent, can only say that Siri has been dumped further and further.