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assistant transition
About this tag
The assistant transition tag covers Google's ongoing shift from Google Assistant to the Gemini AI agent on mobile devices. Content discusses Google's delayed timeline for fully retiring Assistant, now extended into 2026, as the company works to ensure a seamless transition. Topics include the consolidation of voice, vision, and multimodal capabilities into Gemini, and the challenges of migrating users from a decade-old assistant to a generative AI platform. This tag is relevant for users tracking Google's AI assistant roadmap and the phased sunset of legacy Assistant features.
Google has quietly pushed back its plan to fully retire the decade-old Google Assistant on mobile devices, saying the shift to the generative Gemini agent will now continue into 2026 as the company works to “deliver a seamless transition.” Background / Overview
In March 2025 Google announced an...