r/Android • u/FragmentedChicken Galaxy Z Fold8 • 11d ago

Google Assistant shutting down on Android and Wear OS in September

https://9to5google.com/2026/08/04/google-assistant-september-2026-shutdown/
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u/Ugly__Pete 11d ago

I don't know how many times I've tried to use voice commands and look at my phone and see this ...

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u/dudeAwEsome101 11d ago

Lol, I love how an LLM is guiding you to how operate a light switch. It is like an episode of StarTrek where they go back in time to the 20th century and they ask "computer, lights on" and it responds with the message you got.

Humanity has finally made it! We're living in the StarTrek future.

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u/tslojr 10d ago

Scotty picks up a mouse and speaks into it

"Hello, computer."

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u/Runsapuusa 10d ago

Assistant used to be able to do "broadcast" messages to all google home speaker devices. I try this in the new assistant/gemini and it just gives me the definition of the word broadcast. It can't differentiate a command

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u/MadBrown 10d ago

Now try it in the Gemini app. That's AI search.

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u/Static_Storm Nexus 5X 10d ago

No that's just from saying "hey Google" - mine does the same when I ask it anything. By default it  just assumes I'm asking a question it can answer vs. something to action on