AIBU To Want To Dispose Of Google Assistant

[TheShellBeach]

Maybe it's me, maybe this is my fault.

I recently got a Smartphone. Prior to this I always used a laptop (and still do, for the most part) but I decided my dinosaur of an old phone, which I just used for making calls and sending texts, was a leetle bit out of date. I thought that maybe a Smartphone would be useful.

And it is. Very useful. But I have a problem, and maybe someone brainy on here can tell me what to do. Whenever I put my fingerprint on the sensor, Google Assistant opens.

I do not want Google Assistant to open. I do not even want Google Assistant on my phone. It does not seem to appear in the list of Apps, so I cannot delete it.

It just turned up. And I do not want it. I am sick of Google Assistant. I do not want to ask it anything. I want it to go away. It will not go away. This is infuriating.

Would I be unreasonable to murder Google Assistant?

Or can someone just tell me how to delete it permanently.

It's in your settings. What phone is it and we'll help. Or you can Google if that's easier

It's an old Samsung J5 which is as much of a dinosaur as my old phone in its way

I have looked in Settings, to no avail.

Swipe down click the cog for settings, click Google services and preferences, click settings for Google apps, click search, assistant and voice, click Google assistant, click manage general settings for assistant, toggle the Google assistant to the off post. I'll grant you the menus are very long to get there!

Oh wow!

May I buy you an expensive present? A really expensive present?

I am so, so happy to have got rid of it at last.

Many, many thanks.

@Runningintolife Amazing, thank you so much. I've been looking for this for months.

Glad you got it sorted OP.

OP asks for help.
Solution offered.
Solution works.
Other people also benefit from the advice given.
Everybody happy.

Thought I might not be on MN for a second there 😉

Aw shucks, that's made my day, no reward required, glad to help x

I'm grateful too. Just switched mine off at last. Thank you so much!

@Runningintolife thank you!! It's really irritating and pops up all the time, good riddance to that! 🙌

Thank you from me too, I've been telling mine to turn itaelf off which strangely didn't work, such an annoyung thing

Thought I might not be on MN for a second there

Yes, it's a bit too much peace-and-goodwill-to-all-people on this thread.

😂

Actually, I've been telling it to turn itself off, too, but it pays no attention whatsoever.

DH kept on asking me who I was talking to.

Ha!

Now I keep getting a pop-up, asking me if I want to turn Google Assistant back on.

No, I fucking don't. HTH, phone.