Google Assistant will disappear from Fitbit smartwatches in the coming weeks
It's the end of the line for Google Assistant on Fitbit devices.
Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority
- Google is shutting down Assistant on Fitbit smartwatches “over the next few weeks.”
- Users will no longer be able to use Assistant for voice control.
- Amazon Alexa will still be available in certain languages and countries.
Google has made it clear that the Assistant era is over. The company has been hard a work replacing Assistant with Gemini on phones, but the change is also expected to come to headphones, smartwatches, tablets, and cars. We found evidence of the tech giant preparing for the swap on Wear OS devices back in January. However, Google Assistant won’t just disappear from Wear OS smartwatches; Fitbit smartwatches are also losing the virtual assistant, and that change will start soon.
On the Fitbit community forum, an overlooked post from late March announces that Google Assistant on Fitbit is coming to an end in the next few weeks. As the moderator explains:
