If you don’t already have the Google Assistant app on Android and download it now from the Play Store, you get Gemini AI by default. Even the app icon says Gemini instead of Google Assistant.

The first icon is a shortcut to Gemini created via the Google app. The second icon is the Google Assistant app, which turns into Gemini once you enable it and make it your default Android assistant.

To take care of that — at least for now — I’ve moved the Google Assistant icon into the dock on the bottom of my screen, just above where that mic icon is.

At Google I/O 2025, the company teased upcoming features coming to its latest AI assistant. Here's the rundown.