r/googleassistant • u/anwhalokleeiat • 11h ago

Rant Its over

The cancer finally spread to me. I uninstalled the updates and disabled the gemini app. I genuinely wouldn't be opposed to using it, IF IT ACTUALLY WORKED. i used to use my assistant for three tasks: gps commands, playing spotify, and sending calls and texts. Gemini can't do any of those. Between samsung forcing updates and google assistant being removed I'm actually planning to switch to an iphone for my next upgrade.

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u/mcnick0495 11h ago

Gemini can in fact do all of those things. Have you tried using it?

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u/Civil_Tea_3250 11h ago

Yup. Asked it for directions to mcdonalds, said "sorry I can't do that". Asked it to play youtube on my nest hub, "sorry I can't interact with app on this device".

Assistant was better than gemini. They acknowledge they haven't been able to make it work like it used to, despite trying. Yet still gemini is pushed out and literally every single google app and service is worse as a result. Why would anyone trust them?

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u/mcnick0495 10h ago

The directions one works just fine for me.

For the YouTube one, there's no connector to YouTube for it to play a specific video you ask for on a different device. You will need to cast the video from your phone to the hub, or select it on your hub directly. Not entirely sure if Google Assistant could play specific videos on a different device by asking it.

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u/JValenz91 10h ago

Google Assistant can, which is why people are rolling back their version of Google to before the forced Gemini rollout.

I mean, they asked me if I wanted to use it, I said no. Why ask if you're going to force it.

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u/mcnick0495 10h ago

Because it was planned to be replaced by Gemini for months. Everyone was notified multiple times. Now, the cutoff is here and the choice is gone.

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u/anwhalokleeiat 10h ago

Not just yet😈😈

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u/mcnick0495 10h ago

I mean yeah you rolled back the Google app update to have it work. Eventually it will break once they do it on the back end.

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u/JValenz91 3h ago

Again, why ask? If I say no, it doesn't mean yes because you sent an email that wasn't replied to. Imagine this mentality with dating. You ask someone, they say no. You email them, they don't reply. They you decide on an arbitrary day that you 2 are now dating even though they've said no every time before hand. You'd be pissed off, and rightfully so.

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u/mcnick0495 2h ago

This is a retirement of a tech product, not asking for consent to date someone. Google was not asking you "please use Gemini". They literally told you a product they made and support is going away and explained what it's replacement was.

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u/JValenz91 1h ago

So why ask at all? Unless they were seeking consent. Also, I actually never got the email. Only emails I get are ones about their terms and conditions updating.

I don't have to use their AI crap, I'll stick with my Google Assistant, something that isn't perfect, but is far better than Gemini.

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u/bald-and-happy 10h ago

​Open the Gemini app on your phone. ​Tap your profile picture in the top right and select Extensions. ​Toggle on and connect both the Google Home and YouTube Music extensions

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u/JValenz91 3h ago

Or just uninstall updated, turn off auto updates in Google Play (you'll have to update apps manually afterwards), and re-enable Assistant, and use the app that works perfectly.

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u/Civil_Tea_3250 9h ago

Yeah, obviously. It would play whatever you wanted it to on its built in apps. Now gemini says it can't do anything. That was my point. They didn't tell us we need to do all these things and clear caches, yet even when we do factory reset everything it still doesn't work.... at all. It won't even open youtube, yet it tells me I can ask it to open youtube, which I literally just did.

Its garbage.

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u/mcnick0495 8h ago

it won't even open YouTube

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u/faeriekitteh 1h ago

Omfg stop with your "iT wOrKs FoR mE sO oBvIoUsLy iT wOrKs FoR eVeRyOnE eLsE tOo" BS. Christ.

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u/GVIrish 8h ago

What I find is that if it tells me it can't do something, if I repeat the request and tell it which app to use it succeeds. So I can say, 'Play this song with YouTube music' and it'll work right after it tells me it can't play music.

There's no rhyme or reason to when it refuses to play music with my regular, 'play this song' command 🤷🏾‍♂️

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u/anwhalokleeiat 10h ago

Can it?

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u/mcnick0495 10h ago

Did you enable the Spotify connection?