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Pixel 3a. Google assistant. You can't disable it without breaking other things. You can't disable the shortcuts that open it without unnecessarily regressing
by gpm 6y ago
Pixel 3a.
Google assistant.
You can't disable it without breaking other things. You can't disable the shortcuts that open it without unnecessarily regressing the rest of the UI. It's bound to "swipe up from a corner" which is an action you accidentally perform on a semi-regular basis. It's utterly and completely useless (to me).
- izacus 6y agoYou can literally disable it by setting the assistant app to "None".
- gpm 6y agoReally? Where do I find that setting? I've looked, hard. Edit: Found it - I wonder if this is new or if I missed it when I got the phone - thanks! Doesn't stop it from being bloatware...
- brian_cloutier 6y agoThis feature has been around since Ice Cream Sandwich, released 2011 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Ice_Cream_Sandwich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Ice_Cream_Sandwich > Certain "System" apps (particularly those pre-loaded by carriers) that cannot be uninstalled can now be disabled. This hides the application and prevents it from launching, but the application is not removed from storage.
- gpm 6y agoDisabling google assistant broke various unrelated features. What I just found out I can do above is change the "Assistant" default app from being "Google Assistant" to being none - which stops the stupid swipe in the wrong way and it grabs focus and the bottom half of the screen "feature". Edit: And to be clear this doesn't remove all the places Assitant pops up, just the most annoying one. It still has prominent placement in the "system" settings for instance.
- brian_cloutier 6y agoAh, sorry, I should have been paying better attention.
- izacus 6y agoAre you sure you disabled Google Assistant (via one of two settings) and not the "Google" app which contains significantly more functionality than just the Assistant?
- gpm 6y agoUnderstand that I played with this a year ago, so my memory is a bit hazy. I believe that what happened was was after looking for any way to disable just assistant (e.g. under the "Assistant" system settings option) and not finding any I have up an tried to disable it at the app level. At the app level I saw (and still see) only a option to disable all of Google. It probably did not occur to me at the time to check the default app settings. > via one of two settings I only found the default apps way, what is the other?
- izacus 6y agoBeen there since Assistant APIs became a thing in Android 6. You can also disable Google app to stop it from running. You'll lose the other services it provides though.
- nl 6y agoThe whole reason I bought a Pixel is Google Assistant, so calling it bloatwear seems a stretch. Also it doesn't seem bound like that on my phone.
- gpm 6y ago> Also it doesn't seem bound like that on my phone. Iirc it is enabled when you set System->Gestures->system navigation set to gesture navigation? I recommend setting that for the superior ui it provides.
- jeroenhd 6y agoDeep integration with Assistant is one of the main selling points of Pixel devices. New assistant features come to Pixel first, sometimes only work with Pixel, and the device has been built to have as much integration with Google's services as possible. There's plenty of bloatware on phones these days, especially with the rate Google kills apps, but I can't honestly consider the Assistant integration with a Pixel phone to be one.