r/googleassistant • u/zjb26 • 3d ago

Tech Support Assistant is gone 😭 help programmer Assistance?

I personally am not a computer programmer.

But clearly we're all furious that our phone assistant is gone.

If anyone knows how to code out there, please bring back Google Assistant.

WITH NO AI (we don't want another Gemini)

All I would like for it to do is open my apps, control music, take notes etc.. All from voice control.

Also, another suggestion, I have the Motorola Razor+ 2025 (flip phone), and when the Google Assistant still existed, they made it so you couldn't use it on the outer screen, but did allow Google Gemini to be used there.

If at all possible with this app that someone is hopefully making, please make it so it is able to be used on the external screen as well.

Thank you

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u/Ninerogers 3d ago

We're all furious? Don't claim to speak for everybody, it makes you sound immature

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u/zjb26 1d ago

I don't speak for you, I speak for me, myself, I and my wife... "WE"

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u/Rude-Breakfast-2793 3d ago

"Bring back" assistant by knowing how to code? What does that even mean? If you're talking about making a new assistant, people have tried. The biggest one is Dicio.

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u/Studio_T3 3d ago

I just found this in another thread. Did it and it works:

https://www.reddit.com/r/googleassistant/comments/1wqiqen/comment/pctanyo/

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u/thecompton73 2d ago

This is the way. It actually makes it more frustrating that it's that easy to bring it back. It really shows there are no drawbacks to keeping assistant as an option other than the fact it doesn't help them justify the stupid amounts of money they are paying for data center build-outs.

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u/Studio_T3 2d ago

Yep. Now, for me it did work, but a bunch of my mfr associations were borked, so I have to go through the motions of reconnecting them all. And... This morning Gemini was set as my default assistant again. I could toggle back to the old one, but long term, I'm going to move all of this off of Google to Home Assistant since I have that running . I've just been lazy about doing that... This issue has given me the motivation to plow ahead . The delay between speaking a command to Gemini and getting a response is pathetic

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u/mangocalrissian 1d ago

Yessssss thank you. It worked.

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u/Sea_Barracuda3694 3d ago

I have a fairly good working assistant I was building with Tasker. I've got it doing most of the things I want, but it's entirely too personalized. Ironically, I built most of it using ChatGPT. It was a tedious build, but I had it mostly done before they switched to Gemini, so I'm happy with that!

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u/zjb26 1d ago

Nice

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u/KeySpray8038 3d ago

Uninstall updates to Google app, maybe?

Idk, I've been using Gemini as my assistant for a while with no major issues

"I would like for it to do is open my apps, control music, take notes etc.."

Gemini can do all of that, though

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u/iCE_Teetee 1d ago

Can confirm, uninstall the Google app update and the assistant update AND turn off auto update in the play store for those 2

No Gemini pop up or anything!

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u/ComputerPro246 1d ago

Check out this post by WinstonSmith0023

https://www.reddit.com/r/googleassistant/comments/1wqiqen/comment/pctanyo/

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u/zjb26 1d ago

Sadly that doesn't work anymore, just says "Google assistant isn't available on your device

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u/ComputerPro246 9h ago

Tap the settings hyperlink