Google Decides That Google Assistant Can Stick Around a Bit Longer, Pushes Gemini Switch to 2026

You may have forgotten the timeline, but Google was pushing to force all off of Google Assistant and onto Gemini by the end of this year. Like with all things AI, the timing hasn’t quite worked out and they are instead “adjusting” that previous timeline to a later date within 2026.

Google made the short announcement today on their Gemini Apps help page, where they noted that they are making this change to be “sure [they] delver a seamless transition.” The plan is to continue upgrading users from Google Assistant to Gemini “into 2026.”

That’s a somewhat vague end date for this change, but they did say they hope to hare more details on these new plans “in the coming months.” For now, if you have not yet made the switch to Gemini, you can stick with Google Assistant and hope that it can still do anything useful.

// Google