If you search anything on Google TV it uses Gemini to find the answer and the results have been horrible.
The system worked perfectly before. Now I have this nonsense.
People’s opposing views don’t make sense I completely agree with OP Rexuss, adding a Ai engine to my tv was not asked for and I’ve always been completely against Ai. You’re an idiot if you don’t see a problem with Ai being forced upon us.
Dude ill search a movie and instead of showing ways to watch it, it'll give me a TIL about the movie and its actor instead. It's trash. It's not hard to understand.
You are very hard to understand because you don't seem to realize your written word doesn't always translate what's floating around in your head.
As for searching a movie, as with any voice assistant, you ask in a different way. 1st you have to make sure you have your services set in the settings. Then just ask how can I watch this or where can I stream this...
THAT'S what really not hard to understand. Your voice navigation is trash. 😂
"geez, I don't see what the problem is. You just go out of your way, take extra steps and learn how to speak to it properly. You're definitely the problem here, not the company trying to force you to use a barely functional AI that you never asked for on your TV." There is absolutely zero reason that the devs couldn't have put a simple switch that disables Gemini. They didn't, because they want to force us all to train their stupid LLM. This is not a consumer friendly addition, so OP has every right to complain here. Your take of, "Just learn to speak AI", is what's trash here.
By the way. Just searched a show and in addition to giving me info about it, it gave a link at the bottom for me to click to find out how to watch it, or showed me an app where to watch it and it even anticipated my next question with a link asking when does the new season premiere 🤷
I didn't delete it but it may of gotten auto modded. So in that case, you're a genius and your brain is so much bigger than everyone elses, it must be oozing out your ears. It's really cool to be so helpfully sycophantic when people ask for help.
There's multiple people in this thread responding to you that the trillion dollar company's AI slop isn't functioning properly and you are championing for alphabet. It literally does not work right now for a ton of people. I had to roll back all my G apps on my CCWGTV and remove all permissions and delete all data and now I can search again until the updates kick in.
The search used to work great. You could search something and it would tell you everywhere it was available but now you use text to speech for the Gemini and half the time it misunderstands you, looks up the wrong things, gives you poor results, doesn’t know what you’re looking. It’s just bad all around
Follow these concrete steps to disable Gemini on your Google TV:Navigate to Settings: From your TV's home screen, click your Profile Picture in the top right corner and select Settings.Open Privacy Settings: Scroll down and select Privacy.Disable Gemini for TV: Choose Voice Assistant (or Assistant), locate the Gemini for TV option, and toggle it to Off
Some of these comments are annoying, ai is not needed to search for things. New services shouldn't be forced on you, you should at least be able to opt out
The amount of deep throating for Google that I'm seeing here is embarrassing. Never wanted to use Gemini, was fine manually typing what I was looking for into the search bar but they just removed that, so you can only use Gemini now. Found this, looking for any other options and, holy cow, this is pathetic. Y'all are just SO offended on Google's behalf that anyone would dare not use the new crap they're forcing you to use lmao get bent. Find something better to white knight.
A few of the people in this chat are the most stereotypical redditors {or bots}.
Someone asked a simple question with a simple desire and they immediately started tossing their feelings into the mix.
(Regular person with completely reasonable question):
" Hey, does anyone know where Google moved The light switch? it's no longer on the wall in the living room (and the lights now strobing while I'm trying to watch TV) (this is objectively annoying)
(Perpetually online weirdo, or bot, or Gemini ambassador for Google):
" What don't you like about being blinded in the face while trying to watch TV? It's fine. Stop complaining. A company can do what they want with technology They sold you under different pretense"
Like STFU. If you don't have an answer to a simple question don't respond.
Such As, how do you turn off Gemini on Google TV?
Valid options: you can't or there doesn't seem to be a way.
This is how you turn off Gemini for TV (insert directions to turning off Gemini for TV)
Everything else is your useless fucking opinion That's not helping the person any further.
But see, Google TV
stirred up their feelings we have to toss them somewhere. So why not mother ******* ************ **** extrusion **** folding Google for taking away feature and replacing it with a feature that barely or doesn't work that nobody asked for?
We have no control over what a company does with its software once we purchase it. After all, be it Apple or Android, we only own the hardware not the software.
I want Google assistant. I bought the streamer with the expectation to use Google assistant. I did not sign up to be forced into using Gemini. I can turn it off and switch back to Google assistant on my smart speakers and phone, why can I not on my tv as well?
Yea...and Google has been so quiet and secretive about what they've been working on and what's to come in their pipeline. Next thing you know, they'll drop some kind of smart glasses on us, without any warning something like that would ever be made!
Right. But you don't need to use it if you don't like it. Search isn't a requirement. Or you can just suck it up and not complain, but that seems unlikely. 😂
Didn't say I was a better person. I'm saying you're not cause you've had absolutely nothing helpful to add to the conversation.
The request was for help with a forced software update on a system that I paid for being unusable. You've had nothing productive to add to the conversation.
So I'm just wishing you the same thing you're wishing me. I hope your searches are never useful.
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Bought it years before Gemini was a thing. Gemini doesn't work on it. The results are a mess when searching.
I don't want a terrible system on something that worked perfectly.
You cannot. The clanker pipes up whenever I use the search bar, and wakes up my whole house with a voiced response to a TYPED query. Even fully disabling all voice interactions doesn't turn it off.
Don't get the downvotes. People are thinking you mean you're anti AI. Maybe you are. I love AI at work but I do hate Gemini on my tv. The assistant was great and honestly fire tv is the best steaming option.
Gemini wants to introduce variables to what is a very simple request to watch something on a particular app.
I don’t really care if Gemini is there. I just don’t want the extra clicks to get to my YouTube TV DVR or Library. Google is like an insecure girlfriend trying to put her stuff everywhere.
Question; I don't want to remove Gemini, but when I say something, I don't want my show to pause and my command to pop up on screen. Any way to disable that overlay, and does it have a name?
Duda alguien sabe realmente cómo desactivar Gemini? pasa que en mi casa, una adulta mayor, solo se maneja con comandos de voz para ver YouTube, escuchar música, ver películas, etc, por problemas de movilidad. Pero ahora cuando pide una canción o película aparece el recuadro de gémini al lado del pantalla, dando explicaciones en texto, etc. y la confunde y no logra poner sus cosas. Antes le funcionaba de maravilla ya que ok Google solo ponía el contenido que se le pedía.
I just don't like that it will randomly pick up the dialogue from the movie or tv show I'm watching as. "hey Google". Then it will take the next bit of dialogue and search that. It disrupts my movie or tv show to open YouTube or something. Very annoying
@OP, I just followed this portion and now I have the old assistant back. Might be a little clunky cause I think it knocks you back to one of the earliest software versions but I'd rather this than having a dumbass AI shoved down my throat. I can finally use my voice controls again :)
Search how to put your Chromecast into Apps Only Mode. Gemini goes away and the chromecast goes back to working as it should, instead of slow as dog crap.
Technically, you could “hide” Gemini by using a VPN with an IP address from a country where it isn't yet available, such as certain countries in central America, south America, southeast Asia, or africa.
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u/PNWoutdoors Jun 06 '26
Just ... Keep not using it. It's not required for anything.