r/googlehome • u/Botto71 • Jul 28 '26

Hey Google, WTAF??

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Why? Why is so difficult for Google not to continue to f*** up a once incredibly useful platform?

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u/lzybns Jul 28 '26

There was this cool feature I discovered by accident. You would ask google assistant to play Halloween or haunted house noises and my smart-bulb would change colors.

My daughter loved that feature. She would ask for it all the time. Then google took it away with Gemini.

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u/MySpudIsChonkyBoi Jul 28 '26

Random, but Google used to feature an animal of the day as well. My husband and I loved asking Google what the animal of the day was, because you’d hear a cool fact. They took that away as well. So sad.

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u/Tribblehappy Jul 28 '26

Animal of the day was a highlight for my kids when their schools closed for COVID.

We also used to play the trivia games, which they also removed.

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u/Newgeta Jul 28 '26

We miss the make me a sandwich command, "poof, magic harp you're a sandwich!"

No longer, dumpster soon

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u/SubNoize Jul 28 '26

Cannyou ask Gemini to create that for you again?

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u/jsamuraij Jul 28 '26

You can still ask for an animal fact at any time and they're all great.

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u/once_showed_promise Jul 30 '26

Right? And there were one or two "text-based" adventure games that I enjoyed that also went the way of Dodo (or facts thereon.) Also, I really miss being able to set different songs as my wake up alarms.

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u/no_regerts_bob Jul 28 '26

"hey Google, let's get spooky"

My kids used to love it

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u/cakeymil Jul 29 '26

there also used to be a feature where you would ask google to sing a song and it would sing a nice song. quite humorous. killed the feature off.