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Assistant

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This article is about AdGuard for Android, a multifunctional ad blocker that protects your device at the system level. To see how it works, download the AdGuard app

Assistant is a handy tool to quickly change app or website settings and view statistics without opening the AdGuard UI.

How to access Assistant​

  1. On your Android device, swipe down from the top of the screen to open the notification shade.
  2. Find and expand the AdGuard notification.

Expand AdGuard notification in the notification shade *mobile

  1. Tap Assistant.

Tap Assistant *mobile

How to use Assistant​

When you open Assistant, you will see two tabs: Apps and Websites. Each of them contains a list of the recently used apps and websites respectively.

Assistant main *mobile

Apps tab​

After you select an app (let's take Chrome as an example), you'll get a few options of what you can do.

Assistant Chrome menu *mobile_border

Recent activity​

You'll be taken to the AdGuard app, where you'll see detailed info on the last 10K requests made by Chrome.

App recent activity *mobile_border

App statistics​

You'll be taken to the AdGuard app, where you'll see detailed statistics about Chrome:

  • Number of ads and trackers blocked in Chrome
  • Data saved by blocking Chrome's ad or tracking requests
  • Companies that Chrome sends requests to

App management​

You'll be taken to the AdGuard app screen where you can disable AdGuard protection for the app.

Firewall settings​

You'll be taken to the AdGuard screen where you can change Firewall settings for the app, meaning you can manage the app's Internet access.

Websites tab​

Assistant websites tab *mobile

Select a website (we use google.com here purely as an example) and you'll see few options of what you can do.

Assistant google.com info *mobile

Add to allowlist​

Tapping this option will instantly add google.com to allowlist, and AdGuard will no longer filter it (meaning ads and trackers won't be blocked for the website).

Recent activity​

You'll be taken to the AdGuard app, where you'll see detailed info on the last 10K requests to google.com.

website recent activity *mobile_border

Website statistics​

You'll be taken to the AdGuard app, where you'll see detailed statistics about google.com:

  • Number of blocked ad and tracking requests to google.com
  • Data saved by blocking ad and tracking requests to google.com
  • Apps that send requests to google.com
  • Information about google.com's subdomains