Google backtracks on killing off Assistant Driving Mode, but users will still lose access to the app launcher within Maps. Without the app launcher, all that exists of Assistant Driving Mode is a ...

Google Assistant is being replaced by Gemini as the default voice assistant on Android devices. The Assistant Driving Mode feature on Google Maps is also going away for good in favor of Gemini. Media ...

In an attempt to streamline the platform and “focus on quality and reliability,” Google is axing 17 features from Google Assistant. The move corresponds with news the tech company is laying off ...

Earlier this month, Google announced it was deprecating a slew of Assistant features. One of those removals was the “App Launcher” in Assistant Driving Mode, which most people assumed was the entire ...

Assistant Driving Mode in Google Maps is officially gone for good, the company has confirmed. Assistant Driving Mode is another feature casualty of the Gemini transition, which is currently underway.

Google may be ramping up its efforts to infuse Google Assistant with Bard’s generative AI abilities, but it will also be trimming more than a dozen existing Assistant features, including several that ...

Google has made killing off products a bizarre hobby, and even the products people love the most sometimes have the same fate. Since we're here to talk about the experience behind the wheel, the best ...

In February of 2024, Google Assistant Driving Mode was pared back to basically be a voice bar, but in recent days it has disappeared entirely from Google Maps on Android. Launching Google Maps driving ...

While updates to an app usually add new features, an upcoming update to the Google Assistant will actually take quite a few away. Nearly 20 features are being removed from the service, including one ...

Google Assistant is killing off a bunch of its capabilities. The tech giant said it would stop supporting 17 "underutilized features." Several of these features that'll no longer be supported feel ...