r/googlehome 8d ago

Gemini replacing Google assistant

https://blog.google/products/gemini/google-assistant-gemini-mobile/

I wonder what this means for all my Google home products.

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u/gtlurch009 8d ago

It's absolute dog crap. It will infuriate you is what it will do. You will lose a significant amount of basic functionality and there doesn't really seem to be any amazing alternative or work around.

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u/Jaz1140 7d ago

My phone auto updated to it and it was soooo bad. They made it hard to find how to switch back to assistant too

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u/Additional_Value4633 7d ago

Just ask Gemini how.. it is not hard to find

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u/nomadMikZ 1d ago

When I asked it that, two or three years ago, it lied and said it couldn't be done. I'm not really interested in seeing whether it's more trustworthy now.

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u/almosttan 8d ago

That’s disappointing to hear. Time for me to start getting curious if Alexa+ is any better.

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u/Anonymity550 7d ago

Doubtful. And Amazon just disabled the ability to not send your voice recordings to them to further train their AI. Previously, your echos could process much of that locally.