{"id":459461,"date":"2025-12-20T06:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T06:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/459461\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T06:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T06:37:12","slug":"gemini-isnt-replacing-google-assistant-on-android-just-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/459461\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemini isn\u2019t replacing Google Assistant on Android just yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google isn\u2019t quite ready to replace Assistant with Gemini on Android devices. The <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/gemini\/thread\/396052272\/here%E2%80%99s-an-update-on-our-work-to-upgrade-mobile-assistant-devices-to-gemini\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">company said on Friday<\/a> that it will \u201ccontinue our work to upgrade Assistant users to Gemini on mobile devices into 2026,\u201d instead of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/629904\/google-assistant-gemini-moving-on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">original plans to make the switch<\/a> by the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cWe\u2019re adjusting our previously announced timeline to make sure we deliver a seamless transition,\u201d Google says. Once the transition away from Google Assistant is complete, users will no longer be able to access the voice assistant on devices that meet the minimum requirements to run Gemini. Users also won\u2019t be able to download the Google Assistant app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">This year, Google took steps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/693719\/google-gemini-android-update-apps-activity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">toward replacing Assistant with Gemini<\/a> on Android by giving users the ability to initiate phone calls, set timers, and send messages through Gemini without Gemini Apps Activity toggled on. The change allows people to use Gemini\u2019s assistant-like capabilities while opting out of having their interactions used for AI training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google isn\u2019t quite ready to replace Assistant with Gemini on Android devices. The company said on Friday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":459462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[691,2718,2722,611,50,242,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-459461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-android","10":"tag-google","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115750518449377510","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}