{"id":981480,"date":"2025-12-22T10:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981480"},"modified":"2025-12-22T10:18:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:48:44","slug":"google-assistant-will-no-longer-be-in-android-phones-by-mid-2026-this-is-what-will-replace-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/22\/google-assistant-will-no-longer-be-in-android-phones-by-mid-2026-this-is-what-will-replace-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Assistant will no longer be in Android phones by mid-2026: THIS is what will replace it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has officially hit the brakes on its ambitious plan to fully replace the classic Google Assistant with Gemini by the end of 2025. In a strategic shift, the maker of Android announced that the transition for mobile devices is being extended into 2026, giving the legacy voice assistant another year, just weeks before its original expiration date. Although the Google Assistant is seen far less in modern Android devices, Google is willing to keep it around for basic voice-based functions, even when the smarter new Gemini app is preloaded as the default on-device assistant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has officially hit the brakes on its ambitious plan to fully replace the classic Google Assistant with Gemini by the end of 2025. In a strategic shift, the maker of Android announced that the transition for mobile devices is being extended into 2026, giving the legacy voice assistant another year, just weeks before its original expiration date. Although the Google Assistant is seen far less in modern Android devices, Google is willing to keep it around for basic voice-based functions, even when the smarter new Gemini app is preloaded as the default on-device assistant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}