Google Assistant becoming more persistent?

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dafman

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#273367 18-Aug-2020 20:29

I don't use Google Assistant and don't want to.

Yet, increasingly, Assistant is randomly, and frustratingly, popping up on my phone and trying to get me to interact with it. My partner is experiencing the same. We both have Galaxy S10s.

Is anyone else finding this? Has there been a recent update that has caused this?

Yakcall

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#2543989 18-Aug-2020 20:51

Had you turned off Assistant before and it's come back on? Appears there is a way that on some phones keeps turning it back on for people.

Have a look at this article that explains how to hopefully keep it off https://www.nextpit.com/how-to-deactivate-google-assistant

NedLudd

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#2544012 18-Aug-2020 21:01

Yes. This morning at home while making breakfast suddenly my S10e started loudly nagging me to interact with Google

Assistant. It startled me, as I likewise never have, and don't want to interact with it. So I powered off. My device has

had no update since April, so why this happened today don't understand either.

I am on Warehouse Mobile network, in case that is the common link?

dafman

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#2544016 18-Aug-2020 21:12

NedLudd:

Yes. This morning at home while making breakfast suddenly my S10e started loudly nagging me to interact with Google

Assistant. It startled me, as I likewise never have, and don't want to interact with it. So I powered off. My device has

had no update since April, so why this happened today don't understand either.

I am on Warehouse Mobile network, in case that is the common link?

Same phone, S10e, but on Vodafone. I've had the phone about 18 months, but the annoying Google Assistant pop ups only the last couple of months.

Oblivian

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#2544021 18-Aug-2020 21:22

Word on the street is Samsung has given up on bixby and bankrolling Google.

So probably a move in the shift to that. Lots of references for this month

But now it looks like that might change: a report in Bloomberg states that Google and Samsung are close to a deal that could see Google software pushed a bit harder. The article states that the deal would see Samsung “promote Google’s digital assistant and Play Store”, giving Google “more valuable daily access” to Samsung users – which is quite important, given Samsung is the world’s biggest phone manufacturer.

I imagine Samsung push app or similar built in updates could do that over a 'security' update or OTA

nzgeek

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#2544072 18-Aug-2020 22:47

It must be a Samsung thing. My phone is about as Google as you can get (Pixel 3a) and the assistant only pops up when it's summoned.

As the others above have mentioned, Google have been trying to get Samsung to ditch Bixby and push Assistant instead. The Verge has an article that gives a bit more detail on why.

gbwelly

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#2544106 19-Aug-2020 07:32

My google home minis are getting ridiculously sensitive to the wake word, to the point where sounds on TV, particularly orchestral scores will trigger them to start listening. I reckon if I went 'fu fu foofu' it would decide it's close enough to 'ok google' to wake up. I personally think they are quietly tuning the Nest Aware capability using the general user base, given how often it happens over the last couple of weeks.

GSManiac

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#2544279 19-Aug-2020 10:02

gbwelly:

My google home minis are getting ridiculously sensitive to the wake word, to the point where sounds on TV, particularly orchestral scores will trigger them to start listening. I reckon if I went 'fu fu foofu' it would decide it's close enough to 'ok google' to wake up. I personally think they are quietly tuning the Nest Aware capability using the general user base, given how often it happens over the last couple of weeks.

the sound of the toilet flushing will active Hey Siri on my iPhone.

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Yakcall

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#2544281 19-Aug-2020 10:08

GSManiac:

gbwelly:

My google home minis are getting ridiculously sensitive to the wake word, to the point where sounds on TV, particularly orchestral scores will trigger them to start listening. I reckon if I went 'fu fu foofu' it would decide it's close enough to 'ok google' to wake up. I personally think they are quietly tuning the Nest Aware capability using the general user base, given how often it happens over the last couple of weeks.

the sound of the toilet flushing will active Hey Siri on my iPhone.

I don't know if it is a recent update or I haven't noticed before but you can change on individual items, the sensitivity of the "Hey Google". I have my one in the lounge at a lower setting so it stops getting set off by the TV. https://support.google.com/assistant/answer/9712065?hl=en