With Gemini rolling out to all Pixel Buds, one factor you have to be conscious of is that spoken notifications can’t be enabled for each app.

Gemini’s “Introduced notifications on headphones” function presently solely helps messaging apps, together with:

• Google Chat
• Google Messages
• Google Voice
• WhatsApp 
• Instagram
• Messenger

Compared, Google Assistant on Pixel Buds allow you to “hear incoming notifications” from any utility, which was helpful for calendar occasions, reminders, and information alerts.

This was an intentional change as Google is “remodeling the notifications expertise from the bottom up,” beginning with “streamlined spoken notifications centered on messages.”

Assistant vs. Gemini

Trying forward, Google instructed us it would “proceed to construct on this and are deeply excited in regards to the many alternative methods Gemini can improve your general notification expertise for messaging and non-messaging apps when utilizing Pixel Buds.” Utilizing LLMs to summarize notifications could be fairly promising.

Nonetheless, for many Pixel Buds customers at present, Gemini might be a regression. It follows Google eradicating the touch-and-hold gesture for alerts and changing it with “Hey Google, do I’ve any notifications.”

You’ll be able to return to utilizing Google Assistant in your Pixel Buds, however you even have to show off Gemini because the telephone assistant. Beforehand, it was doable to make use of Gemini and Assistant side-by-side. 

One other factor Pixel Buds (Professional and A-Collection) homeowners that make the change ought to know is how invoking Gemini (not Dwell) in your buds will at all times flip in your telephone’s display screen. The corporate instructed us that it’s optimizing for the way customers choose to have longer conversations with Gemini by displaying the transcript. Nonetheless, Google has “taken steps to cut back the probability of unintended touches by excluding sure features when the display screen is activated by Gemini voice instructions.”