Google needed to take away Assistant from most Android telephones by the tip of 2025 and exchange it with Gemini. However now the corporate has introduced that it wants a bit extra time to make its AI assistant the brand new default digital helper for many of its customers. Google mentioned that it's adjusting its beforehand introduced timeline to "ensure that [it delivers] a seamless transition" and that updates to transform Assistant to Gemini on Android gadgets will proceed into the following yr. The corporate additionally mentioned that it's sharing extra particulars within the "coming months," so it's attainable that the transition will go previous early 2026.
Assistant's retirement was just about anticipated the second Google launched Gemini and began giving it Assistant's capabilities, equivalent to the power to regulate good gadgets related to your telephone. It launched the Pixel 9 Sequence with Gemini because the default assistant again in 2024. The corporate has additionally been placing Gemini in all of its merchandise and beforehand mentioned that it plans to improve all "tablets, automobiles and gadgets that hook up with your telephone, equivalent to headphones and watches" with the AI-powered chatbot. Units do have to satisfy just a few minimal necessities to get the improve, nonetheless, and should be operating Android 10 and include 2GB of RAM on the very least.
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