Long story short, assistant does not work. The "hey google" function has been a hit or miss on my phone. Specifically every time I call, it would very rarely register what I ask and just says "can't reach google at the moment". Then a new update was released that actually fixed the problem and it also came with a new assistant UI design. However after almost 3 weeks, the GENIUSES at Google released a recent update that brought back the issue I had before with the same old UI design. WHAT???