Gemini, Google ’s generative AI assistant and rival to ChatGPT, has become integral to high-end Android phones over the past year, gradually superseding the more basic Google Assistant. Now Google has outlined plans to sunset its original smart assistant entirely, starting with Android phones.

This is the first official declaration from Google that the Google Assistant is on its way out, but it’s not like we weren’t expecting it. Gemini is already the default experience on most mainstream Android devices,

Google's Gemini assistant will officially replace the company's classic Google Assistant on most phones later this year. Google announced the change in a blog post Friday, and revealed that the change will also encompass devices like tablets,

The classic Google Assistant “will no longer be accessible on most mobile devices or available for new downloads on mobile app stores” at some point “later this year.” “Additionally, we’ll be upgrading tablets,

Google will replace Google Assistant on Android phones with Gemini later this year, the company announced on Friday.

Google's AI chatbot Gemini will replace Google Assistant on most mobile devices in 2025, as well as tablets, cars, and more in the future.

Google has finally revealed its plans for the end of Google Assistant: Android phones will have to move to Gemini before the end of the year.

There are a lot of AI assistants available now, from Google’s own Gemini to Perplexity and many others. The listed two allow you to set them as a default assistant in Android. That means it will be the go-to option when users activate it via the power button shortcut that has been around since Google Assistant.

With the latest beta update, you can now set ChatGPT as the default assistant on Android, opening up more ways to quickly trigger it.

You can now set ChatGPT as the default assistant on Android, replacing Gemini. This will enable you to quickly invoke ChatGPT's voice mode by long-pressing the power button or swiping up from the screen's corner.