{"id":51650,"date":"2025-04-26T08:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T08:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/51650\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T08:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T08:25:09","slug":"millions-of-tvs-to-lose-popular-feature-in-days-and-owners-warned-itll-affect-other-home-gadgets-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/51650\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of TVs to lose popular feature in DAYS \u2013 and owners warned it’ll affect other home gadgets too"},"content":{"rendered":"

LG TVs are set to lose the Google Assistant feature at the end of the month as the voice assistant gets pulled into retirement. <\/p>\n

Google <\/a>is replacing the longtime voice assistant<\/a> with an AI<\/a>-powered successor, called Gemini<\/a>, across all its gadgets and apps. <\/p>\n

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LG began telling customers at the beginning of the month that Google Assistant would disappear from devices on 1 MayCredit: LG\"Smartphone<\/a><\/p>\n

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LG has chosen to adopt Microsoft’s AI assistant Copilot over Google rival GeminiCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

This includes third-party TVs, such as LG <\/a>and Samsung<\/a>, which removed the Google feature at the beginning of March.<\/p>\n

LG began telling customers at the beginning of the month that Google Assistant would disappear from devices on 1 May.<\/a><\/p>\n

While the voice recognition service enabled through the microphone button on the remote will still be available, it will be handled by LG’s own voice assistant.<\/p>\n

It means users won’t be able to use it in relation to their other Google Assistant devices.<\/p>\n

So using Google Assistant<\/a> to control your TV through a Google smart speaker will no longer be possible. <\/p>\n

That change will be permanent too, as LG has decided not to adopt Google’s smarter AI assistant, Gemini. <\/p>\n

LG will instead pick up Microsoft’s\u00a0<\/a>AI\u00a0assistant called Copilot <\/a>– meaning TVs won’t be compatible with Google smart speakers.<\/p>\n

For example, Copilot can’t talk through Google’s smart home speakers, but Gemini could.<\/p>\n

This is expected to bring disruption to some households’ smart devices network. <\/p>\n

Google’s Gemini AI app lets you chat out loud with shockingly humanlike virtual helper<\/p>\n

Customers have complained about the switch on social media<\/a>, saying LG shouldn’t be able to remove a feature that was available when they purchased their televisions.<\/p>\n

“I wonder if we can get some compensation since they are taking away a feature that they advertise with the TV,” one user said on Reddit earlier this month.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s the only reason why everyone on here bought an LG OLED, for the Google Assistant.”<\/p>\n

Last month, Google\u00a0announced it would be phasing out its\u00a0Google Assistant\u00a0by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

It will remain on home devices, like Google speakers and displays, for now. <\/p>\n

The voice assistant, which has been around since 2016, is being replaced with Gemini – Google’s smarter,\u00a0AI-fuelled voice assistant.<\/p>\n

What is Google Gemini?<\/p>\n

You may have heard of Google’s Gemini AI tool – so what exactly is it?<\/p>\n

Google’s Gemini AI launched in December 2023 and is available online<\/a>, billed as a way to “supercharge your creativity and productivity”.<\/p>\n

Gemini is a multimodal model that learns from a variety of data types including images, text, and audio.<\/p>\n

When a user enters a prompt into Gemini, it generates a response using information it already knows or pulls from other sources (often Google services).<\/p>\n

While training on datasets, it identifies patterns that help it mimic a human response. As it is continuously learning, Gemini also learns from your prompts, responses, and feedback.<\/p>\n

Google has admitted that “Gemini will make mistakes and might even say something offensive”.<\/p>\n

The program occasionally cites its sources. If it quotes at length from a webpage, for instance, it makes reference to that page. Sometimes, it generates a URL that users can click.<\/p>\n

Gemini has usage limits to reduce traffic, meaning it may cap the number of prompts and conversations a user can have within a specific timeframe.<\/p>\n

This number depends on factors like how long and complex a user’s prompts are and the length of the conversation with Gemini. Google will alert you when you are close to hitting the limit for a given period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LG TVs are set to lose the Google Assistant feature at the end of the month as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2061,2062,1942,867,2060,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-51650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-android","9":"tag-apps","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-google","12":"tag-section-techtech-news","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114403313944486904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}