My stupid Google phone pulls up Gemini if you hold your earbud pause button for half a second too long, and I've never once meant to use it.

March 29, 2026 - 15:17 UTC

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I immediately killed Gemini and forced it to keep the old Google Assistant. I don't wanna talk to you, phone. Set me a timer and shut up!
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How'd you do that?
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you should be able to disable that, can you not?
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If you do, it whines at you to turn it back on any time you hold your phone funny.
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I never think to unless it's actively bothering me, and it only bothers me when I'm at work busting my ass.
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I think there is a way to go back to the old assistant, but I only got as far as reinstalling it via the play store. Also they've stripped a bunch of features from it like the wake word stuff. Whatever is going on behind the scenes gemini's being pushed in a hard sell.
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Dawg, when that happened i looked at my pixel like the devil was inside it..

And all i could see was me nuking the software and changing it with grapheneOS.

If my pixel was sentient it would have called the police.
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Our stupid Google phones also now open the Nano Banana "Remix" option when we hold on a photo in a text thread instead of allowing us to add a reaction. I've also never once meant to open this.
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It's a shame because if it wasn't for the AI bullshit I'd love my Google phone completely. I pray every day AI implodes so maybe we don't have to deal with such stupid shit.
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I'm kinda pissed they some how mapped the AUX port to Gemini so every time I connect an aux or headset cord the stupid thing pops up and gets me cussing at it.
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