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Gemini, Google's AI-powered chatbot, is the default assistant on Pixel 9 phones

You can still use Gemini as your assistant on most current Android phones — but only if you opt in. You must first fire up Google Assistant and tell it to replace itself with Gemini when you are asked.

This means that you can ask Gemini to do simple things like turn on the lights or play music, or you can pose more complex questions like “What’s the weather on the weekend in Mountain View and San Francisco, and which one is hotter?” to decide which place you want to visit. “The way to look at it is that Gemini is an opt-in experience on the phone,” Sameer Samat, president of the Android ecosystem at Google, told Wired back in May. Today at its latest Made By event, Google showed off the Pixel 9 Pro Fold sporting a brand new design and an even larger 8-inch main screen.

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