As expected, Google Assistant is going away in 2026, and the company just provided a September 4 date for Android.
Google sent an email to existing users today about how “Google Assistant is going away on mobile devices.” Officially, Assistant is “being discontinued” and that “Gemini — our next-generation AI-powered assistant — is now the assistant experience on Android.”
The company will start removing Google Assistant access on September 4, but “this process may take a few weeks to reach everyone.”
Once availability is removed, you will no longer be able to use or switch back to Google Assistant on your phone, tablet, or paired devices.
Besides mobile devices, this deprecation also applies to Wear OS watches, headphones, and “vehicles running Android Auto projected from a user’s mobile device.”
