Nothing has added voice assistant help to its Ear 1 earbuds, permitting you to summon both Google Assistant or Siri with a triple-tap, the company announced on Twitter. The addition comes as one thing of a shock given Nothing initially told Android Central it had no plans so as to add voice assistant help to the Ear 1.

According to 9to5Google, the performance is rolling out with firmware model 0.6700.1.86, and in addition helps Amazon’s Alexa along with each cellular OS’s native voice assistants. Unfortunately, it sounds just like the function is presently somewhat buggy, with 9to5Google reporting the earbuds generally fail to register that all-important third faucet.

Since their unique launch final yr, the Nothing Ear 1’s have acquired quite a lot of firmware updates, in addition to a brand new black colour scheme. In a evaluation from December final yr InputMag noted that these updates appeared to have fastened lots of the points the earbuds initially had, which included noise cancellation dropouts and connection bugs. Now, we will add voice assistant help to this listing.