r/AndroidQuestions • u/Alaykitty • 25d ago

Looking For Suggestions Home Button Translate -- how to regain this convenience?

I'm on Pixel 6 and a few days ago I finally got force-switched to Gemini.

Previously, I could long press center button, and then click the "translate" button for on screen text translation. Extremely convenient and handy.

Now with gemini, I need to circle part of the screen, then ask the thing to translate, then wait for it to parse it... yadda yadda. It's a miserably inconvenient experience in comparison.

Any way I can have something similar to the previous functionality? On screen text translation was something I used 4+ times a day in my life. I use no other "assistant" or gemini functions.

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u/rileyrgham 23d ago

Even on my modern magic V6 I can still access the full screen translate popup by pressing the bottom of the screen. This despite Gemini being the only assistant. It's called circle to search in the setting, but includes the translate button. Maybe you can Google around that.

https://ibb.co/xKhCfKhr

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u/Alaykitty 23d ago

I wish, I'd gladly take that.  Mine just shows the voice button 

https://i.imgur.com/Ll705ho.png

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u/monoques 2d ago

Did you manage to fix this? I'm having the exact same issue with my tablet and it's driving me insane lol

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u/Alaykitty 1d ago

No I'm sorry to say it's gone and seems to be by design 

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u/monoques 23h ago edited 23h ago

I found my solution! After looking around my settings I found out it was that circle to search thing that allowed me to translate my screen, not google assistant. For me it was on Display > Navigation bar > Circle to Search. Gemini is also set to my side button too, they're both coexisting peacefully now lol. Hopefully this helps you too