Android Auto removes the micro assistant icon for some as Gemini approaches

It is not a secret that Gemini arrives on Android Auto soon, but it is not yet there. Before deployment, however, Google removes the Auto Auto Assistant Microphone, apparently when it is prepared for the switch.

To summarize the status of gemini on Android Auto so far, the new AI assistant has started to appear in the updates of the application last year. In recent months, there have been more observations and some have even been able to activate Gemini and Gemini live on the platform. More recently, the Android Auto 14.0 update has added several new Icons and Gemini language which suggested that Gemini would completely replace the assistant.

This is not a surprise, because Google confirmed that Gemini arrived in cars when he recently announced that the assistant would be Sunset on Android phones. Google said::

In addition, we will upgrade the tablets, cars and devices that connect to your phone, such as headphones and watches, Gemini.

While we are waiting on Google to return the switch to the Gemini for Android Auto, the last index to what is happening is the intermittent removal of the assistant microphone icon on the platform.

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For years now, the microphone icon that appears along the lower bar / lateral in Android Auto has been thematic to correspond to Assistant. The multicolored icon is visible through several of our own images of the Google automotive platform, including the one below.

But it starts to disappear.

We noticed on Android Auto 14.0 that the microphone icon had abandoned its assistant colors for a completely white design. The Taraudir always raises the assistant, but it is a clear change.

It is not the final form of this icon, it seems, because the previous evidence suggest that Android Auto will replace this icon with a purple micro gradient icon to better adapt to the brand of Gemini. It seems that this switch is probably in order to subtly report the switch. That said, as soon as we have been updated to Android Auto 14.1, the colors of the assistant have returned, so it is difficult to say for some what Google has planned.

Android Auto 14.1 also brings in particular Support for Android games selected on the screen of your car, as we demonstrated earlier this week.