Google Gemini will replace Assistant on mobile devices and other gadgets. Gemini lacks certain abilities like setting alarms and calendar events. Users may not have an option to switch back to Assistant once Gemini takes over.

Google Assistant's days are numbered. Google announced Friday that all Android devices are switching to Gemini as their default assistant and "the classic Google Assistant will no longer be accessible on most mobile devices.

Gemini, Google’s generative AI assistant and rival to ChatGPT, has become integral to high-end Android phones over the past year, gradually superseding the more basic Google Assistant. Now Google has outlined plans to sunset its original smart assistant entirely, starting with Android phones.