OREANDA-NEWS  The American corporation Google will turn off its voice assistant 10 years after the launch. This is reported on the company's blog.

Google Assistant is a virtual voice assistant that appeared in 2016. The company noted that by the end of 2025, the assistant will no longer work on mobile devices that it was previously integrated into, including smartphones and tablets. Google did not specify the exact timing of the service's removal, but noted that it would be replaced by the Gemini chatbot.

The article says that in the late 2010s, Google Assistant was a breakthrough tool, but now humanity is "in the middle of another platform shift." According to representatives of the corporation, millions of Android smartphone users have already switched from Google Assistant to Gemini and started sharing their experiences with the company.

Android Police journalists noticed that a few days after the announcement, Google began disabling Assistant functions. For example, the voice assistant stopped helping to search for photos, translate foreign speech in real time, and provide weather forecasts. The service also stopped working with car accessories connected via AUX or Bluetooth.

In February 2024, Microsoft offered Android users to replace Google Assistant with Copilot. In addition, in the same month, Samsung announced the disabling of Google Assistant in its TVs.