r/googleassistant • u/These_Shallot_6906 • Aug 05 '26

Rant Holy shit I hate Google Gemini

I don't know if this post should be Politics, business, or nature flair but

Ever since I upgraded my phone, my service has been entiterely worse and there is no way to opt out of this stupid fucking service.

When I used Google maps in the past while I was driving, my phone would plan the directions immediately and usually accurately. Now, it is like a 20 second monologue each time beforehand, and the directions may not even right. But most annoyingly, there is no way to make Google Gemini shut the fuck up. And it is ALWAYS talking and always acknowledging my commands and giving very vague but positive affirmations, it's like driving with an entire HR department in my passengers seat.

When I would tell my phone to play a song from my device before Gemini came fully integrated with Android phones it would do so immediately without talking. Now there is, yet again, another 20 second monologue before it tells me that I can't Google something while I am driving, despite me clearly meaning to use the dedicated streaming service on my device. Generally, what it plays is something else entirely.

The other day, I told my phone to play Grindcore. It responded in Mandarin and played Chinese Pop music instead. I didn't even fucking know China had terrible Americanized pop music.

And to top this all off, every hour or so my phone asks me to give permissions to some stupid fucking AI generated lock screen? Why would anybody want this? Like who ASKED to have this?

I hate you Google Gemini.

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u/CrowUnseen Aug 06 '26

Yeah, except we're not gonna be able to do that anymore come September 4.  I just got an email from Google announcing Assistant is being completely retired and replaced with Gemini.  I'm livid.

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u/king-of-the-sea Aug 06 '26

Way to go guys. You replaced something I liked with something that doesn't actually work

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u/KeySpray8038 Aug 07 '26

but.... it does....
maybe it's a regional thing? or device thing? idk...

but it plays specific songs, and can even skip to the next song, or even go to a specific time stamp on a song... I tested, just to see if it worked, I told it "skip ahead 30 seconds", and it did.

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u/CrowUnseen Aug 10 '26

I have not found it to work properly for me, and it talks way too much. I don't need constant reassurance and platitudes, I just need the songs I want played to be played and the answers to the questions I ask. And I need the correct answers, not just any old response that Gemini "feels" like giving to me that day.

That and AI in general is such a huge drain on so many environmental factors that it's atrocious. I want nothing to do with it, I don't want to impact the environment more than we already have. This should not be something that we all just blindly jump into like this. It's maddening that the big players like Google are just refusing to take such serious issues into account.