The Google Assistant Android app is now Gemini by default

Google launched the Gemini Android app not too long ago. It provides Android customers an choice to modify from Google Assistant to Gemini and make it the default AI helper on their telephones. Nonetheless, it seems like Google is on the brink of section out Assistant fully and substitute it solely with Gemini.

In case you don’t have already got the Google Assistant app on Android and obtain it now from the Play Retailer, you get Gemini AI by default. Even the app icon says Gemini as a substitute of Google Assistant. What’s unusual is that if you happen to additionally downloaded the standalone Gemini Android app, you’ll now see two cases of Gemini in your apps checklist.

If you open the Gemini app that pops up when you obtain Google Assistant, you possibly can go into Settings and change again to Assistant. It will then change the app icon and mirror the app as Assistant as a substitute of Gemini.

A Reddit person alerted us to this bizarre change Google is making once they seen that the Assistant app on their new Galaxy S24 Plus modified to Gemini robotically after an everyday app replace by way of the Play Retailer. The person by no means beforehand opted in to make use of Gemini on their cellphone as a substitute of Assistant. They didn’t even have the standalone Gemini app on their cellphone when Assistant robotically converted to Gemini.

With Google giving Assistant downloaders Gemini by default, it’s all however clear that the corporate is planning to obliterate Assistant out of existence ultimately. We all know Gemini will more and more undertake extra Assistant options as its availability and attain grows. This appears to be the primary signal that we ought to be able to bid farewell to the great ol’ Google Assistant.