What it’s essential know
- While you obtain Google Assistant, it’s going to give you Gemini by default.
- You do have the choice of switching again to Google Assistant by way of app settings should you want.
- Gemini opt-in is rolling out to pick gadgets and international locations and is at the moment obtainable 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 appears as if Google Assistant is being quietly changed by Gemini altogether.
As per reporting by Android Authority, customers in some components of the world are discovering that once they try and obtain the Google Assistant app from the Play Retailer, they get the Gemini app by default. And but, for some motive, downloading the Gemini Android app will see these customers find yourself with two totally different examples of the identical app icon on their apps checklist.
This isn’t at the moment the case in all components of the world. In accordance with Google, the Gemini cell app is offered in over 150 international locations, in English, Japanese, and Korean (Google has said that within the US, Gemini is barely obtainable in English). Google says, “We’ll regularly develop to extra languages, international locations, and territories in a manner that’s per native laws and our AI ideas.” It has additionally been confirmed that the Gemini cell app will ultimately be obtainable for customers with the Gemini for Google Workspace add-on.
For international locations the place the Gemini app shouldn’t be at the moment obtainable, customers can nonetheless obtain Google Assistant, the place they’ll opt-in to Gemini and have it as their “major assistant” on their telephones. In case you’re utilizing Gemini as a substitute of Google Assistant, you possibly can change 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 a substitute of Gemini.
In its Gemini Apps assist part, Google acknowledges that “Some acquainted options from Google Assistant will not be supported in Gemini, which remains 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 route of journey appears clear: Google is eager for customers to modify from Google Assistant to Gemini, and it appears very probably that, ultimately, Google Assistant will disappear for good.
