Why even bother having it at all anymore. Can’t use it through Bluetooth, it’s slow, can’t hardly handle any tasks…
Google has completely lost the plot with their services.
They heard OpenAi wanted to replace Google assistant and instead of fixing the problems decided to kill it. Typical Google.
How google of them
Imagine still using google services in 2024
Another silent change in the latest update, at least on my phone, is that the assistant disregards media volume levels and screams its feedback on full volume. It wasn’t like this until a week ago. Restarting, playing with settings, adjusting the volume as she screams, nothing helps.
So if I ask her to do something late at night she goes, “OKAY I WILL DO WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU ASKED ME TO DO AND WILL ANNOUNCE IT TO THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE PROCESS”
“OKAY, BUYING MORE PREPARATION H”
never forget
Looks like they’re removing the toggle making it always enabled, probably because nobody used the phone mic while connected via Bluetooth
In honesty, many of the changes announced seem to remove redundancies
Surely this is not related to recent major layoff in Google Assistant division, right?
That reminds me, I should really check out Graphene OS…
Do it, boi. One of us. One of us.
Yes you should – but definitely make sure you know what you’re giving up (or freeing yourself from as the case may be) before diving in.
Google Wallet is probably the biggest deal breaker for most.
Yeah, Google Wallet and my banking app. Secondarily, access to my work emails and Slack. I’m on the move so much during the day, my laptop rarely leaves my backpack sometimes.
Schwab app works for me on Graphene and that’s my main bank/stocks app. I’ve found I don’t really need all my credit card apps or my other bank app. I check once a day if that and just keep a bookmark. It hasn’t been bad at all.
If I understand this correctly in my use case Assistant will get worse in my car with a aftermarket head unit. The mic isn’t that great on the radio and I’ve had better luck using the handset mic instead.
An aftermarket head unit usually has an external microphone jack in the wiring harness where you can plug an extra microphone and place it somewhere near the driver (e.g. behind the steering wheel). Just buy a small microphone to upgrade the recording quality.
Oh don’t worry, I’m sure it’ll be back behind a paywall soon enough.
