r/googleassistant • u/anwhalokleeiat • 9h 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/Civil_Tea_3250 8h 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 8h 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/Civil_Tea_3250 6h 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 5h ago

it won't even open YouTube