Google Assistant can be a very useful feature on your Android phone, but it requires a ton of permissions which you may not be comfortable with.

The Google Assistant comes baked in on most Android phones. If you want to live an assistant-free live, here's what you need to do.

If you're more fond of Microsoft's alternative, though, you can replace Google Assistant with Cortana as your default Android phone assistant.

Your Android phone may be recording your voice when you didn't want it to. Here's how to turn off Google assistant.

Want to give Google Assistant an upgrade? Here's how to swap it out for the company's more powerful AI and what Gemini can do for you.

If you're tired of the feature, you can turn off or limit Google Assistant in a few steps. Here's how to turn it off or deactivate its support button.

If you find Google Assistant mode annoying than useful, we don't blame you. In fact, there's a way to disable the whole feature from your Android smartphone, so you never have to hear Google's ...