What you should know
- If you obtain Google Assistant, it would give you Gemini by default.
- You do have the choice of switching again to Google Assistant by way of app settings for those who choose.
- Gemini opt-in is rolling out to pick out units and international locations and is at the moment accessible in English, Japanese, and Korean.
After Google’s Bard was rebranded to Gemini, it was swiftly adopted by the discharge of the Gemini app. And now, it seems to be as if Google Assistant is being quietly changed by Gemini altogether.
As per reporting by Android Authority, customers in some elements of the world are discovering that after they try and obtain the Google Assistant app from the Play Retailer, they get the Gemini app by default. And but, for some purpose, downloading the Gemini Android app will see these customers find yourself with two completely different examples of the identical app icon on their apps checklist.
This isn’t at the moment the case in all elements of the world. In accordance with Google, the Gemini cellular app is out there in over 150 international locations, in English, Japanese, and Korean (Google has acknowledged that within the US, Gemini is barely accessible in English). Google says, “We’ll steadily develop to extra languages, international locations, and territories in a method that’s in line with native laws and our AI ideas.” It has additionally been confirmed that the Gemini cellular app will finally be accessible for customers with the Gemini for Google Workspace add-on.
For international locations the place the Gemini app shouldn’t be at the moment accessible, customers can nonetheless obtain Google Assistant, the place they will opt-in to Gemini and have it as their “major assistant” on their telephones. When you’re utilizing Gemini as an alternative of Google Assistant, you may swap again to Google Assistant by way of the app Settings menu. If customers do that, then the place relevant, the app icon adjustments again to Assistant as an alternative of Gemini.
In its Gemini Apps assist part, Google acknowledges that “Some acquainted options from Google Assistant might not be supported in Gemini, which continues to be evolving”. This may clarify why Google Assistant has not but been changed altogether.
Whereas robotically changing Google Assistant with Gemini hasn’t but been rolled out worldwide, the path of journey appears clear: Google is eager for customers to change from Google Assistant to Gemini, and it appears very probably that, finally, Google Assistant will disappear for good.
