{"id":360837,"date":"2025-12-20T23:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/360837\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T23:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:47:13","slug":"google-assistant-will-stick-around-a-bit-longer-than-expected-for-some-android-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/360837\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Assistant will stick around a bit longer than expected for some Android users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Google <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/google-is-removing-assistant-from-most-phones-this-year-182700104.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:wanted to remove Assistant;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wanted to remove Assistant<\/a> from most Android phones by the end of 2025 and replace it with Gemini. But now the company has <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/gemini\/thread\/396052272\/here%E2%80%99s-an-update-on-our-work-to-upgrade-mobile-assistant-devices-to-gemini\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:announced;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">announced<\/a> that it needs a bit more time to make its AI assistant the new default digital helper for most of its users. Google said that it&#8217;s adjusting its previously announced timeline to &#8220;make sure [it delivers] a seamless transition&#8221; and that updates to convert Assistant to Gemini on Android devices will continue into the next year. The company also said that it&#8217;s sharing more details in the &#8220;coming months,&#8221; so it&#8217;s possible that the transition will go past early 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Assistant&#8217;s retirement was pretty much expected the moment Google launched Gemini and started giving it Assistant&#8217;s capabilities, such as the ability to control smart devices connected to your phone. It launched the Pixel 9 Series with Gemini as the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/gemini-googles-ai-powered-chatbot-is-the-default-assistant-on-pixel-9-phones-170027220.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:default assistant;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">default assistant<\/a> back in 2024. The company has also been putting Gemini in all of its products and previously said that it plans to upgrade all &#8220;tablets, cars and devices that connect to your phone, such as headphones and watches&#8221; with the AI-powered chatbot. Devices do have to meet a few minimum requirements to get the upgrade, however, and must be running Android 10 and come with 2GB of RAM at the very least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google wanted to remove Assistant from most Android phones by the end of 2025 and replace it with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[173990,178080,168,178079,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-360837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-android-phones","9":"tag-default-assistant","10":"tag-google","11":"tag-seamless-transition","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}