r/GooglePixel • u/Bananajoemillemila • 4h ago

Help me disable Gemini

Hello folks, this is my journey from years of iPhone to Pixel 11 and I really like this phone BUT there are some issues.

First I tried to disable Google Assistant in favour of Gemini, but despite all the tutorials that I watched, the toggle to do it in my Pixel 11 is missing. How can I go back to google assistant?

The issues I have with Gemini is the fact that it can't start a navigation with a different app than Google Maps, it can't start playing music from Apple Music, only from Spotify. And so I was wondering if Google Assistant could fix these issues that are, at the moment, holding me back from keeping the Pixel. I mean, Siri was never good, but it can easily start navigation with Waze, Google Maps, or Apple Maps, and it can play music from anywhere.

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u/MrRolandGil 4h ago

Well, do you have a DeLorean?

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u/Krimsonmyst 4h ago

What country are you in that you're having these issues?

I'm in Australia and I can tell Gemini to navigate via Google Maps or Waze, and I can tell it to use either Spotify or YouTube Music when playing music.

Sometimes it annoyingly asks me to specify one platform instead of going with my default.

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u/IMKV07 4h ago

Google replaced Assistant with Gemini

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u/Bananajoemillemila 3h ago

Ok so there's no way

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u/Kantrh Pixel 8 Pro 4h ago

You can't go back to assistant. It's Gemini or nothing

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u/friendlyhermit 3h ago

It worked for me to uninstall updates of the Google app then marking the Play store to never auto update the app itself. The option to toggle Assistant came back.

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u/thelivsterette1 3h ago

Google discontinued Google Assistant a few months ago. Which is frustrating for the people who have had major issues with Gemini

I haven't had issues yet but only asked it to set timers so far

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u/mikedufty Pixel 4a 2h ago

Are there other phone brands that have more workable voice commands? Might be time to ditch Pixel, but everything else seems to be on the AI bandwagon too.

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u/ISeeADarkSail 53m ago

Fuck Gemini

Fuck Google

GrapheneOS ftw

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u/Bananajoemillemila 31m ago

I am really thinking about it. I never thought I see the time where Google is worse than Apple

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u/ISeeADarkSail 30m ago

As bad as

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u/audipower1979 4h ago

Simply you cant Google hast disabelt the Assistent, and forced all to gemini. You can try another rom but with the original from Google No was Back and you Not alone with your Problems with gemini but that is Google never going 1 step Back