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TL;DR
- Google has started killing off Google Assistant in favor of Gemini on mobile devices.
- Users have noticed that the option to switch to Assistant is no longer available in the Gemini app.
- This comes almost two months after Google issued a timeline for phasing out Assistant.
Google started emailing users last month to warn them that it was killing off Google Assistant on phones in favor of Gemini. The company noted at the time that this process would start on September 4 and continue for a few weeks. Now, it looks like plenty of users are starting to lose Assistant on their Android phones.
9to5Google reports that they’re no longer seeing the “Switch to Google Assistant” option in the Gemini app’s account menu. I’m not seeing this option on my Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, POCO F9 Ultra, or vivo X300 Pro after updating my Google app to the latest beta version on the Play Store (v17.62). Some Redditors also report that they’re no longer seeing the option to switch to Google Assistant.