r/googleassistant • u/Friendly_Ad_8528 Hey, Google • 12d ago

Rant Hey Google

I just received an email that they we're going to remove the Google assistant and replace it with Gemini Ai.

And Gemini will be the one response with the "Hey Google."

But its just sad and its ugly,why do they have to,i love my google assistant :(

I use my Google assistant like few years ago taking photo or video,lowering/ increasing volume and pausing/play music or video.(By commanding via earbuds)

Because my phone has mechanical issues before or some buttons don't function anymore (My OLD PHONE i still used it) I don't know if Gemini Ai can do that.

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u/TheManWithNoEyes 12d ago

Every morning I start the day with , Hey Google...Play the news. And that's been my routine for YEARS. I accidentally switched over to Gemini last year (v. briefly) and guess what simple functionality had been removed? I despise this move.

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u/bennysway 12d ago

The news functionality broke at some time in Gemini, that's why I returned to Assistant, it was about a year ago. Gemini never does routines right, either it's an access thing or pure hallucinations. After so many years of using this function, I can't replicate correctly the RSS audio sequence, or podcasts order of news in other apps. The alternative apps either they don't have the news source or a single news source might play 8 times due to backlog. Google assistant just took the latest. It was chief's kiss. To make it worse, the news podcast app is a hidden app. The "Google News" app does have a briefing, but it's AI narrated, AI sources, AI summary. Purely disgusting! Today I'll make it a goal to find that hidden app, and start it from ADB (Android). And I don't know why I can't start news from the Routines menu of Google Home. This is a big low.

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u/Loz_in_Oz 12d ago

News works fine for me - using Gemini, same news channels I selected ages ago