- Gemini will take longer to succeed in all Android gadgets
- After that, Google Assistant will cease working
- No particular deadline in 2026 has been talked about
You might do not forget that again in March, Google declared that its shiny new Gemini AI app could be taking up from Google Assistant on Android gadgets by the top of 2025. In a brand new replace, Google now says the method will proceed into 2026.
The most recent announcement (by way of 9to5Google) explains that the earlier timeline goes to be adjusted in order that “a seamless transition” between the previous AI and the brand new AI will be ensured, and that extra particulars can be shared within the coming months.
There is not any mounted deadline date to the extension, all that we all know is the work will proceed “into 2026”. We do not get any point out of particular gadgets which can be nonetheless ready for the transition, or of any explicit bugs that have to be sorted.
After all on newer gadgets such because the Google Pixel 10 there’s solely Gemini, and no signal of Google Assistant, however on a lot of older gadgets you may nonetheless run each of those AI apps and swap between them for various duties.
Technical challenges
When the swap is lastly accomplished subsequent yr, Google Assistant will cease engaged on all Android telephones and tablets, and it’ll not be obtainable to obtain. From that time on, it’s going to must be Google Assistant for everybody.
This can be a course of that is taking place throughout all different gadgets and platforms too, as you may need seen. It appears very very similar to Gemini would be the default assistant for everybody on Android Auto by March 2026, for instance.
Google can be busy switching over all of its good dwelling gadgets to Gemini, with devices going again 10 years eligible for the swap. This is not going fairly as easily as Google would really like, an indication of simply how technically difficult all of that is.
The difficulties Google has been having with good dwelling gadgets has maybe contributed to the delay on Android too. For those who’re nonetheless utilizing Google Assistant on an Android cellphone or pill, you can proceed doing so for a bit of longer.
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