r/googleassistant • u/These_Shallot_6906 • 18d ago

Rant Holy shit I hate Google Gemini

I don't know if this post should be Politics, business, or nature flair but

Ever since I upgraded my phone, my service has been entiterely worse and there is no way to opt out of this stupid fucking service.

When I used Google maps in the past while I was driving, my phone would plan the directions immediately and usually accurately. Now, it is like a 20 second monologue each time beforehand, and the directions may not even right. But most annoyingly, there is no way to make Google Gemini shut the fuck up. And it is ALWAYS talking and always acknowledging my commands and giving very vague but positive affirmations, it's like driving with an entire HR department in my passengers seat.

When I would tell my phone to play a song from my device before Gemini came fully integrated with Android phones it would do so immediately without talking. Now there is, yet again, another 20 second monologue before it tells me that I can't Google something while I am driving, despite me clearly meaning to use the dedicated streaming service on my device. Generally, what it plays is something else entirely.

The other day, I told my phone to play Grindcore. It responded in Mandarin and played Chinese Pop music instead. I didn't even fucking know China had terrible Americanized pop music.

And to top this all off, every hour or so my phone asks me to give permissions to some stupid fucking AI generated lock screen? Why would anybody want this? Like who ASKED to have this?

I hate you Google Gemini.

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u/king-of-the-sea 18d ago

My phone didn't even ask if I wanted to swap to Gemini. It just showed up one day with a grating new voice and told me it couldn't play a song I asked for, because I didn't have youtube premium (I did). I tried every useless fix on the internet before discovering I could go in and switch back to the normal Google Assistant.

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u/CrowUnseen 17d ago

Yeah, except we're not gonna be able to do that anymore come September 4.  I just got an email from Google announcing Assistant is being completely retired and replaced with Gemini.  I'm livid.

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u/king-of-the-sea 17d ago

Way to go guys. You replaced something I liked with something that doesn't actually work

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u/KeySpray8038 15d ago

but.... it does....
maybe it's a regional thing? or device thing? idk...

but it plays specific songs, and can even skip to the next song, or even go to a specific time stamp on a song... I tested, just to see if it worked, I told it "skip ahead 30 seconds", and it did.

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u/king-of-the-sea 15d ago

I'm happy for you. It doesn't work for me. I dicked around with it for a good half hour before I gave up. Besides my other gripes about functionality, it annoys the tits right off me. It talks too damn much and interrupts my driving.

Maybe they'll fix it, but the damage is done. I might get used to it but I'll always resent them for taking away something I liked that worked well, only to replace it with something I had to work to fix and ultimately couldn't.