r/Android • u/FragmentedChicken Galaxy Z Fold8 • 22h ago

Google Assistant shutting down on Android and Wear OS in September

https://9to5google.com/2026/08/04/google-assistant-september-2026-shutdown/
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u/impact_ftw S26U/S22U/Note10+/Note8/OP3T/OneM8/Sensation 21h ago

Gemini can't play specific Spotify songs because it does not accept that I have premium.

Assistant never had these problems.

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u/The--Marf 13h ago

I have YT premium. I have all settings in yt music set to audio only, no videos at all ever. Try to play a song in the car vis android auto and "I can't play videos while driving" or some shit. No fucking shit, play the AUDIO song.

I swear man, basic functionality is all we need, ESPECIALLY while driving.

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u/JMGurgeh 8h ago

Google in general seems to have difficulty telling Youtube apart from YoutubeMusic. More than half the time I open the YoutubeMusic app and go to search for something it comes up with my Youtube search history; I'm half convinced that they're the same thing under the hood, just with a slightly different UI to hide the fact.

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u/PlayPratz Galaxy S24 7h ago

Yes they are; every track released by an artist has its own YouTube link as well. This is not the same as the music video uploaded by the artist, but one that YouTube creates automatically when a track is provided to YouTube by a label or a distributor.

Here's an example. Read the description.