Google Assistant will stick round a bit longer than anticipated for some Android customers

Google wanted to remove Assistant from most Android telephones by the top of 2025 and substitute it with Gemini. However now the corporate has announced that it wants a bit extra time to make its AI assistant the brand new default digital helper for many of its customers. Google stated that it is adjusting its beforehand introduced timeline to “be certain [it delivers] a seamless transition” and that updates to transform Assistant to Gemini on Android gadgets will proceed into the subsequent yr. The corporate additionally stated that it is sharing extra particulars within the “coming months,” so it is potential 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 flexibility to manage 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 stated 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. Gadgets do have to satisfy a number of minimal necessities to get the improve, nonetheless, and have to be working Android 10 and include 2GB of RAM on the very least.