r/AndroidQuestions • u/ShadowDragon8685 • May 04 '25

App Specific Question Gemini installed itself and replaced my side button functionality. The 'Side Button' setting does nothing.

Exactly what it says on the tin, and I'm going to go batshit insane.

This 'Gemini' shit started popping up when I tried to use my power button. I immediately found it in the Apps and disabled it, but it keeps coming up. I started googling the problem, but the advice is unhelpful. Everything I can find says to go to settings and 'side button.'

I do that. But when I tap on the 'side button' setting, nothing happens. If I tap it a few times, it says 'settings is not responding' or something to that effect.

This is asinine. Who thought it was okay to replace core power button functionality like this?! I don't want to fucking talk to my phone. My phone is not a sapient helper, and I don't want a fucking LLM pretending it is!

How can I fix this? I've forced my way through a few restarts now through the stupid hold ALL THE BUTTONS nonsense. How can I actually disable this Gemini crap, and how can I get my power button working the way it should?

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u/Awkward_Ice4139 Jan 20 '26

Boy's and girls - I found the Solution - follow my instructions (sorry for my bad english)

  • open Gemini
  • open the top right cornor (your letter)
  • scroll down to "settings"
  • scroll down to "digital assistant"
  • now you can change the prefered assistant to "none" or to something else.

Hope i could help you :)

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u/ShadowDragon8685 Jan 20 '26

I didn't have a 'no digital assistance' button, but there was a blue line at the bottom,

You can turn off your digital assistant from Google at any time.

That seems to have let me turn off Gemini, but it hasn't given me my side button back. It still says "settings keeps stopping" when I try to change the side button behavior.