Google Assistant will no longer support a number of underutilized features to focus on improving quality and reliability.

Looks like a bunch of features are being removed due to “underutilization”

  • Pxtl@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Rescheduling an event in Google Calendar with your voice. You can still schedule a new event.

    This feature is underutilized because I could never get it to work.

  • AZmaybe9@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    This company sucks. It’s like they throw so many ideas and things at a wall and then never foster or care for any of it. And then they take away the wall so anything that relied on it gets fucked when the app isn’t available or works correctly anymore. And this is CONSTANT!

    They deserve each and every loss. Pretty sure the only new developments sticking around are the Google Pixel phones. Who knows, maybe they’ll delete features for the old ones in the future too. Or remove support for their phones entirely and randomly leave.

  • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeBannedEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    Does anyone here ever use assistant for more than the basics? I find that I need to remember to be way too explicit and verbose which makes the whole thing useless, because it’s not the way humans talk so by the time I remember how to say it the right way, I could have already entered it in manually. Eventually I just stopped trying.

    • danhakimi@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I found, ages ago, that I never used the google app for something I couldn’t do in my browser. Like, this was back in the days just after Google Now died—all the features that almost worked just got scrapped because they really didn’t work. It allowed me to keep up with one college sports team, but other than that, opening the app was just a slower version of opening up my firefox and searching there.

      So that’s what I do now. I disabled the Google app, and I don’t miss it at all.

    • n2burns@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It depends what you mean by “more than the basics.” Some things I used to do which could be considered more complicated have already been handicapped (like using 3rd party services). Others aren’t reliable so I stopped using them. Personally, I have no problem trying stuff out and speaking in the way the assistant understands, but there are very few complicated actions which are supported and reliable!

  • danhakimi@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I disabled the google app years ago. I use my browser for search, and then when I get the results, the results actually show in my browser, and I don’t have to switch apps or anything to get to my browser.

    Plus, I don’t have to look at the vestiges of all the features the app used to have, which now just feel like they’ve left the UI cluttered and pointless.

    Plus, every time I open the app, I feel like I’m being spied on, because I am.

    Plus, Google Assistant sucks ass. The voice commands are super unreliable, and as for search, I don’t want AI to guess what I’m trying to search for, deterministic imperative searches are actually better.