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Google Cuts 17 Features From Google Assistant, Smart Speakers

Kellen January 11, 2024 31

Google Assistant's future is likely in question at the moment, thanks to layoffs in the department at the search giant and also because of another cut-related announcement. Google shared this week that it is removing a bunch of features from Google Assistant,...

ChatGPT Could Soon be Set as Your Phone’s Default Assistant

Tim January 5, 2024 4

There's an official ChatGPT app you can use on Android, which is great, but what if you could use OpenAI's popular chatbot as your phone's default digital assistant? According to the app's latest code changes, it's currently in the works. Right now on Android,...

Report: Pixel Phones Getting Personal AI Assistant Called Pixie

Tim December 14, 2023 30

Things like Google Assistant, Siri, and Alexa are fine. They can follow basic commands and help speed up certain actions. While that's cool enough, with all of the AI hype and advancement over the past couple of years, it's now being reported that Pixel phone...

12 New Android Features Arrive Through Google Messages, Wear OS, More

Kellen November 30, 2023 9

As we approach the end of the year, Google has another batch of Android features almost all of us can take advantage of, not just Pixel owners. Google does these regularly, like a Pixel Feature Drop, only they are for the broader Android world, whether you own...

Google Killing Assistant Support on Old, Outdated Wear OS Watches

Tim August 16, 2023 5

Have a Wear OS smartwatch that's still running Wear OS 2? We have bad news for you, as it's being reported that sometime soon, Google will be killing off Google Assistant for devices not running Wear OS 3+. As discovered by the good people at 9to5Google, a new...

How to Switch Your Power Button From Google Assistant to Power Menu

Kellen July 17, 2023 13

Every time I change to a new phone to start a review process, I realize that Android now does this thing that I immediately shake my fist at before switching it back to its originally intended action. I'm talking about the power button that Google (and Samsung...

Fossil Gen 6 Gets Google Assistant Back in Latest Update

Kellen June 21, 2023 5

The Google Assistant is making its return to a Wear OS watch this week after being pulled with the big Wear OS 3 update last year. The Fossil Gen 6 is up first with both a system update and a companion app update that brings back the missing Assistant. At...

Google Assistant Reminders Go Live in Google Tasks: How to Switch

Kellen June 1, 2023 8

This is going to sound wild when I say it, but Google announced in September of last year that Google Assistant reminders would move over to Google Tasks as the default app for them going forward. They said that change would happen "soon," so we figured within...