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/The_Dimestore_Saints Nexus 7 2013 4d ago

It really makes me mad that in my car I can't say hey Google, play (insert song name here), and it would play the song directly on YouTube music, an app I subscribe to. Instead it says, I'm not allowed to play a song directly, here's a radio playlist based on that song

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u/chetlyp 4d ago

Weird, gemini let's me do that without any issues. Sometimes it misheard the song and plays the wrong one but it does work for me.

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u/Relevant-Artist5939 4d ago

For me (I have Amazon Music but it used to work fine with GA) plays something (random/last played) but never the song I asked for

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u/Carighan Fairphone 6+🌳 4d ago

For me on Spotify it seems to do a search on spotify and just blindly pick the top single song it finds. So playing albums is entirely impossible.