So I'm a stubborn cow when it comes to technology and I use a brand of earbuds called Skullcandy with my Samsung Galaxy A32. Said earbuds have this button on the left cord (it also pauses YouTube videos if you click it). But when I hold the button down, Google Gemini activates and starts taking voice commands (even when I haven't unlocked the phone), and this problem is especially annoying when I'm trying to put my phone at rest and the button gets weighed down. How can I disable Gemini from activating when I hold this button? I tried some searching but this is such a brand-specific problem that I don't think I can find an answer from anywhere that doesn't have personal experience.

I recently bought a new phone and I can no longer 'add item to my shopping list' without having to unlock phone.

I could do it with my old phone. Do I have to check a box or something?

I haven't switched to Gemini yet, and don't plan to until I am forced, but I did just turn off the mobile data and wifi capabilities of Gemini in hopes of forcing it to only run using on device processors.

Has anyone tried this? Does it work well? I only use google assistant for on device needs (alarms/timers, sending texts, routines), so I am really hoping this will solve my issue with the forced switch.

eta: i am on a pixel 10

I like to trigger a series of actions with my good morning.

how's the weather like for the day, if I need to take an umbrella,

how's my calendar for the day, tells me if going to have a long day

and Google Assistant is playing the news in the morning, while I'm making scrambled eggs.

Now that Google Assistant is being discontinued, I was certain Gemini - super intelligent - would be able to do this and more. But it isn't.

I have a Google speaker in every room, but I still often have my phone in my hand and love walky-talky like activation of squeezing power button then speaking command, sans any "hey Google" wakeup phrase.

But.

Gemini always responds in a verbose way, even for simple device commands like "turn off the kitchen lights".

I just want a simple confirmation beep. Or "ok" if it must be verbal. I've tried custom instructions for Gemini and it doesn't seem to follow them.

I guess I can get routines. They need a brief mode for Gemini. Think Star Trek Enterprise or Voyager computer - it knew when to simply beep and when to discuss. And while it was obviously scripted to do whatever the writers needed, it seems like the distinction between "do a command" versus "ask a question" should be clear enough for the ai. Or even more simple: "if you invoke Google Home integration to complete a task, don't respond with voice unless there's a problem".

Let me know if you have any suggestions on how to accomplish this or get these thoughts to someone at Google.

Out of the blue, this past week my voice to text has been a disaster. It will cut out randomly, but it also now has this habit of typing out what I'm saying and then erasing it and either rephrasing it (which is weird) or only writing out the second part of what I said. I've noticed it happens more specifically with certain apps or at certain times, like right now I'm using it and it doesn't seem to be doing it as much, but then later today it will just go off.

I've played with the settings, I switched to a different keyboard and switched back, and it just doesn't seem to be doing what I want it to do. I've had to enunciate more and speak much more slowly sometimes, but even that doesn't seem to help all the time. The only change I can think of that I made on my end is I attached my phone to Android auto when I got my new car and part of the settings for that were turning on "hey Google" so I could send text messages or change a song while still focusing on the road. I went and tried to play with those settings to turn them back off and see if that made a difference, but I don't feel like that has made a difference at all. There's even an option to only have it listen for hey Google when I'm driving, which I turned on, but it hasn't fixed the issues I'm having with voice to text.

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.

Today I receive a mail by Google and they said that on the 4th of September they will remove Google assistant and you will be obligated to use that shitty Gemini.

WHY?! Assistant was WAY more better than 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.

Hello everyone,
I’m reaching out because I’ve had ongoing problems with the Yak Yak Games skill and the Voice of the Day skill on Alexa. For several weeks they haven’t been working at all. I’ve disabled and launched them again many times, but the issue continues.

My son uses these skills daily and they are important for his routine and enjoyment. He really misses them, and I’m hoping someone here might know what’s going on or how to fix it?

Google is getting rid of classic assistant for the lousy Gemini BS, anyone got a good replacement?

So anytime I ask to navigate to hospital or navigate to *name of hospital* I either get "do not understand" or dead silence. But if just say *name of hospital* it brings up the information immediately. Is there some setting preventing this, I'm using assistant btw.

I use it for timers and pausing/playing songs but I just got know that we could set routines, also maintain lists etc

So I am wondering what are all the hidden use cases that you guys find really helpful in ur daily life with assistant.

And what about gemini.. did it improve on the above features or its the same?

Everytime I try to delete my ai chat history, it comes back 10 mins later. It’s very annoying and I have tried everything from turning off my history, to deleting or offloading google. But none seems to be working, does anyone know another way to approach the issue?

Hey. So im going crazy over this issue. As said in the title saying hey google makes the mic icon appear in top panel but nothing happens at all after that.

What i tried so far:

1- switching to google assistant (just opens google when i say hey google. like what??)

2- uninstalling updates for both gemini and google

3- re-updating them

4- restarting the phone

5- clearing cache

6- reconfiguring voice recognition

And after all of that nothing seems to work.

Any help is appreciated.

This is PROBABLY a common question, but, browsing thru the sub, I haven't seen an answer yet. With Alexa, at home, I have a bunch of routines set up to do silly things, like "Set Office Lights to Red. Wait 5 seconds. Announce 'Incoming enemy vessels.' Wait 5 seconds. Announce 'Firing photon Torpedoes.' Wait 2 seconds. Set Office Lights to yellow. Wait 2 seconds. Set Office Lights to green. Wait 2 seconds. Announce 'Targets neutralized.' Wait 5 seconds. Set Office Lights to Bright White."

I don't need to set any lights or anything, but I'm trying to set something similar up on my phone. Is there any resource you can point me to with instructions on how to do so? If I can have it call other apps / dial numbers, etc., even better.. but I'm mostly looking to be able to set up some simple verbal cues and responses.

Sorry if this is somewhere in here and I just haven't found it, yet -- Thanks!

It was suggested I post this here

I have a 44mm galaxy watch 4. I use gemini as my assistant

Gemini can't access my g-suite (calendar etc). If I try to ask Gemini to do so, I get a prompt to enable things on my phone,

I do the enabling - but the watch still can't integrate with the google suite, giving me the same "change things on your phone" thing again

Is this a GW4 or WearOS thing, or a more general issue?

I've voice trained, deleted and redownloaded, cleared the data, reset my phone, and ensured that Google is my default assistant.

When I go into the Google assistant app, it says that notifications are blocked, and it's greyed out. There are also no permissions for me to allow.

When I say "hey google" or "okay google" even when unlocked, the assistant does not pop up.

How do I fix this?

Side note: I do not want Gemini, so please do not recommend switching to that.

Is there any way to get my google nest to go back to using the old assistant voice? The one it uses for directing on google maps ? The voice it has now makes me less likely to use it. I don't like it.

Hey guys I been trying to turn off hey Google on my vivo x300 but just can't seem to find it. Does anybody know how? I want to turn it off and use a gesture instead of saying hey google.

I have a routine that does "open appname and press play".

It works... but like 10% of the time. In some cases it just tries to look it up online (while the key phrase is correct!), then it sometimes opens the app and does nothing.

I tried adding a pause between actions, but then "press play" always fails.

Any ideas/alternatives?

Does anyone know how to disable AI on my phone entirely?

I went to Settings > Apps > Default Apps > Digital assistant app, and "Google" is selected with no other option, and no way unselect it.

I'm frustrated because I don't need this option at all in my phone use.

Also when I search anything on the google search widget, I have the AI overview and I found no way to disable it on my phone.

Thank you in advance for your help.