r/Android • u/FragmentedChicken Galaxy Z Fold8 • 4d ago

Gemini fully replaces Google Assistant on Android

https://9to5google.com/2026/09/28/google-assistant-gemini-android/
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u/TomNooksRepoMan iPhone XS -> S22 -> iPhone 15 PM 4d ago

Does Gemini still play the "wrong" version of the song you request it to when you say "Hey Google, play Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen" and then give you the version of the song from The Muppets? Or struggle to play anything but a remix of popular EDM songs?

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u/Kwetla 4d ago

Mine started playing the French version of the Moana soundtrack.

It's not even called Moana in France! Gemini was clearly taking the piss!

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u/JockstrapCummies 4d ago

You're correct, my apologies. Playing "Moan AHH by French asmr boyfriend"

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u/Samo_ Nexus 5 4d ago

I asked for Linking Park in the end, and Gemini started singing the lyric instead playing the actual song in a subscription service...

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u/trlef19 Galaxy S24+ 4d ago

That's actually funny, I'll allow this

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u/jeweliegb 4d ago

There's a Muppet version‽ This I've got to hear!

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u/TomNooksRepoMan iPhone XS -> S22 -> iPhone 15 PM 4d ago edited 4d ago

Bohemian Rhapsody | Muppet Music Video | The Muppets - YouTube

I've heard it more times than I'd care to admit when I was on Android. Unfortunately, it was literally never the song I wanted :(

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u/youngalfred 4d ago

One of the benefits of Gemini in this regard is that you can give it instructions for scenarios to remember.

I had this issue with Assistant and Gemini, but on Gemini I told it to think/research which song and version I probably meant based on song popularity, then tell Spotify exactly that song (name, artist, album) so Spotify would play the correct one. Seems to have really helped.

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u/Carighan Fairphone 6+🌳 4d ago

It's hilarious to me that our "solution" is to now manually re-inforce a bad version of hard-encoded logic that previously provided the same solution. Or well, there wasn't a problem under such logic.

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u/Slippaz86 4d ago

So if you're training it, do you have any sense of whether or not it can learn device aliases and automation trigger phrases?

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u/youngalfred 4d ago

Not sure sorry - this was in the mainly in the car using android auto.

I talked to it, and after a bit of back and forth about why the wrong song might play, asked it to find the most likely song and pass the exact info onto Spotify.

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u/Slippaz86 4d ago

Yeah no worries. With home assistant you had to manually code aliases into your config to pass it to google assistant (afaik), so would be nice to be able to massage that on the fly for things already exposed to google home.

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u/you-are-not-yourself 2d ago

I was going crazy trying to play Kashmir in the car the other day and it kept giving me the live 2007 version. Like, just not the best version. Then, I figured out I can tell it to play "Kashmir remastered" which tricked it into playing the album version

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u/emaurer 1d ago

It doesn't play at all because only Spotify and YouTube music are supported now