With the arrival of Gemini to smartphones with the Android operating system, Google decided that it was time to definitively replace its traditional assistant, in favor of the other one, which is powered by artificial intelligence. Now it seems that he has thought better of it.
The Google Assistant appeared 10 years ago and was launched as part of Allo and Home. So, It differed from Google Now in that it could hold two-way conversations. A lot has happened since then and it didn’t take long for it to become part of the daily lives of users of smartphones and other home automation devices.
In technology, it is common for products and services to become obsolete within a short time of their launch and the condemnation of the Assistant has been precisely artificial intelligence, since Gemini has been eating up the ground in recent years.
Until now, the application of this other AI assistant offers a configuration that allowed you to choose between both assistants. However, just a few weeks ago it became known that Google intended to kill its predecessor.
This is how he advanced it Android Authoritywhich noted that the firm was preparing an update to the Gemini app, which will completely eliminate the option to return to the traditional Assistant. This would mean goodbye to the usual assistant, but it seems that Google will carry out this later.
An irreversible change that will take time to arrive
Google seeks to strengthen its position in the field of intelligent assistants, compared to competitors such as Copilot, Claude or ChatGPT. For this reason, it plans to complete Gemini’s functions with more advanced ones, such as Deep Research, which will allow the selection and control of the information sources used by the AI.
For this, you just have to matar to your traditional assistantbut it seems that it still has a few months to live, although at the time it announced that it had the goal of «updating the assistant experience to Gemini on most mobile devices by the end of 2025.»
Now, Google is working to upgrade Assistant users to Gemini in 2026, but hasn’t given a specific date by which it expects its transition to be complete. nor has it advanced as it hopes to do.
Gemini Live, the best Android tool
Over time, Gemini has become an entity within the panorama of artificial intelligence tools aimed at the average user, since it offers many facilities for daily use. You can answer questions, summarize content, create new information, plan activities… In short, everything.
And not only that, because it is combined with Gemini Live, its version focused on conversations, which For a few months it has been available in Spanish and that adapts to any type of conversation. In addition, it is configurable, since you can choose between ten different voices, both male and female, to use.
Gemini Live is already integrated into all devices that run on the Android operating system, but also on iOS, and is also linked to other Google applications so that you have your information at hand at any time. This is the case of Calendar, Tasks, Maps and Keep.
This means that you can access them directly without leaving the conversation, something that Google now makes easier so that users do not are forced to change applications. In this way, the Mountain View giant is proving to be at a higher level than Apple, its main rival in smartphones and other devices, which seems to have fallen somewhat behind with Apple Intelligence.