Google Assistant will disappear from your phone next month
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The September 4 shutdown date for Assistant on Android phones, tablets, and paired devices is a hard cutoff—Gemini is now Google’s only bet on personal assistance. Any consumer or employee workflows that quietly relied on Assistant need a migration plan this month or they will simply break.
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