Google said Gemini would replace Google Assistant on Android. Within the year the classic Assistant would no longer be accessible on most mobile devices or available for new downloads from app stores; tablets, cars, and phone-paired devices such as headphones and watches would move to Gemini, and a Gemini-powered experience would come to home devices like speakers, displays, and TVs. Devices below the minimum requirement of Android 10 and 2GB of RAM would keep the old Assistant unchanged. A product launched in 2016, which had made the give-it-a-command assistant familiar to a wide public, was being replaced by a conversational model. It followed the same line as Microsoft folding the Cortana app into Copilot in 2023: a generational handover among voice assistants happening in parallel across the industry. The migration did not keep to its schedule. On 19 December Google said completion would slip into 2026, with the mandatory transition on phones beginning 4 September 2026.