Goodbye, google assistant

You could tape over that button.

 

I've got the physical Google Assistants. Both Google and Google Mini.
I usually use my voice so I do not want to turn Google Assistant off.
When I use my phones I don't want to turn Google Assistant off either.
I like that app

 

I don't know about the S5, but I'd start by looking in your Google settings - or maybe even ask Assistant how to turn it off?

(I thought I'd be able to spot it in my settings, though I've a different phone, but I've actually turned it off so thoroughly that I can't easily find the setting to enable it: though I suspect that if I turned on a shortcut like the "active edge" or voice input it would pop up. I do remember that when I turned it off it took a while going through my Google settings finding all of the various data collection options that had been enabled en masse when I turned it on and remained active when I turned it off...).

 

i think.. it is baked in...
so.. you just need to learn .. NOT to push that button.

 

I've got it completely disabled on a Pixel 2, a device Google sold with the expressed purpose of pushing Assistant. So it would be weird if you couldn't turn it off on an S5.

And on the S5 isn't "the button" going to be the Home button? There's no Bixby button on that model.

 

You've just got to learn not to long press the home button. Aggregating not being able to disable it.
Even though I have the dedicated button, on my V40, disabled, if I long press the home button, it still pops up.

 

If I long press the home button on my Pixel a white circle appears, but that's all (it used to prompt me to turn Assistant back on).

Still can't quite remember what I did, but looking through my settings I do seem to have disabled the Google app, which may be the answer (Assistant is part of that, so with it disabled there really is nothing for it to show). I did have Assistant disabled before, probably in the settings of this app (I'm not going to re-enable it to check).

Of course if you actually use the Google search bar or anything like that this solution might not be for you. I've always taken the attitude that I can use a browser if I want to search for something, so don't need a search bar cluttering my desktop, and decided that between not using the widget and not using Assistant I didn't need the Google app at all.

 

I agree completely, apart from the word "started".
In fact these days I'd say that Google behave more like the Microsoft of old than Microsoft themselves do.

 

The same steps work on my 8.0.0.

Thank you for posting this!

You're not kidding.

Oh my...

 

I hated trying to get certain screenshots on my old S5. Tried the app, Smart Touch, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blk.smarttouch

No more messing with button combinations.

 

Never had an issue with excessive adds using smart touch.

Just need to enable it and set it up the way you like. Then when you open it and simply tap screen shot. Pics will appear in a smart touch screenshot folder, not in a system screen shot folder.

 

You need a back.
Might still have one in my box of parts.

I'll check when we get back.

 

Thanks but doesn't work, I know how to turn it off I need to kill it. I use a long press on the home button and power button for screen shots, which I do often. It just keeps coming back asking to be turned on.

 

After a Google app update it's back!

 

The advantage of my solution (disable the Google app) is that this can't happen because you don't get updates to it any more .

 

I hope you don't do that to people