Google Assistant is evolving into Gemini, bringing powerful new AI capabilities but also discontinuing some favorite features.
If you use Google Assistant to set timers, play music or control your smart home, get ready for some significant disruptions as the company begins replacing the nine-year-old assistant with its newer, more powerful, AI-powered Gemini chatbot. This article will outline the key changes you can expect, helping you prepare for the transition and understand what will be different.
Smartphones, with a few important exceptions , will have moved over to Gemini entirely by the end of 2025 at which point, “the classic Google Assistant will no longer be accessible on most mobile devices or available for new downloads on mobile app stores,” according to Google.Unfortunately, the transition to Gemini won’t be seamless for everyone. If you currently make extensive use of Google Assistant, it may take a little effort to adapt to Gemini.
Gemini tries to understand your requests and respond appropriately rather than simply following a list of programmed commands. This makes it considerably more powerful but also slightly unpredictable.Fortunately, Gemini is so much more powerful than Google Assistant that users will eventually gain many more capabilities than they lose. Gemini will likely be able to restore much of the removed functionality eventually.
March 22 Update. Here are some workarounds for some of the most popular features being removed from Google Assistant as Google transitions to Gemini.While it adeptly translates words, phrases and complete documents, Gemini currently does not directly replace Google Assistant’s live translation Interpreter Mode function. This means smart speakers and other devices will no longer be able to translate conversations in real-time.
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Google is removing Assistant from most phones this yearIan Carlos Campbell is a Contributing Reporter at Engadget, where he covers the big companies making screens for your pockets, and the weird ways they intersect with entertainment industry. Prior to Engadget, Ian was an Associate Editor at Inverse focused on AR, VR and mobile technology.
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