Google Assistant to Be Removed from Mobile Devices
Google Assistant is going away on Mobile Devices
Google has announced that Google Assistant will no longer be available on mobile devices, marking a significant shift in its AI strategy. The change, communicated via email to users, signals a move away from the standalone assistant app in favor of other AI-driven features. This decision impacts millions of users who rely on Google Assistant for daily tasks, raising questions about the future of Google's AI ecosystem.
Google Assistant is going away on Mobile Devices.
- Magicrafter13
Google Assistant is going away, to be replaced by - checks notes - Google Assistant by a different name.
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Tangentially related, does anyone know any FOSS (local preferred, but self hosted if required for performance) assistant apps? After switching to GrapheneOS I do miss Bixby (say what you want about it, but creating reminders/alarms by merely holding down a button and using natural speech was quite handy).
- koala_man
I spent years not upgrading because when I'm in my car asking my phone to navigate somewhere, Gemini likes to say "As a large language model I can't navigate anywhere. Try using a map application on your mobile device."
It still does it, but these days you can reply: "yes you %@#$ing can, use a tool call!!" and it will
- alienbaby
Hmm. Gemini cannot do various things I used to do with assistant, especially interacting across some apps, or jsut behaving as it used to , and now sometimes ends up in a situation where I have two audio sources playing one over the other with no way to solve it (if you have morning routines that play the news, and it pops up while listening to teh radio, previously I could say 'stop the news' and the radio would continue while the alarm routine news would stop. Now there is no way at all to stop the routines triggered news, it just carries on over the top ov the radio :/