Google’s Pixel Buds Lose Ability to Automatically Read Unread Notifications
Google’s Pixel Buds Lose Ability to Automatically Read Unread Notifications
Your Google Pixel Buds are losing a feature this week, although Google is making it sound like you wanted this to happen. In a Google Assistant support post, Google announced that Google Assistant spoken notifications through the Pixel Buds will no longer happen when... #Google #GoogleAssistant
Sounds like a Google thing to do. Remove features that were useful. Remember when Maps in Android Auto would give you addresses in your calendar or would recommend a destination based on your upcoming appointments? Now you have to tell it your destination or open the calendar app.
I also remember when some Google things would tell me when to leave for an appointment to get there on time.
It still does. It's just buried now and not very convenient
On the maps app, they recently removed the little media player controls that showed up at the bottom when something, anything, was playing. Just removed it for seemingly no reason.
It was the only maps app that would do that. Waze has to install an applet for each media player app you want to control, and guess what, unless it's Spotify and a handful of other popular apps, you're out of luck. No generic media control interface. It's so backwards! Just take whatever's playing and give me forward, back, and pause!
Google maps just removed one of their tabs on the bottom where it was one tap to start your commute to work if you were at home or to home if you were at work.
Used it twice a day every day and then all of a sudden it disappeared. Now i have to search for my home or my work and press it, then hit start navigating. It's only an extra button press but when you do it every day and there was a better way before it gets super annoying fast.
"Google stop tracking me!"
Google works hard to remove identifiable data
"Google removed features that required my identifiable data, those bastards!"
They can recommend something that I put on my calendar myself. I already told them where I was going, they can put it on my maps. Now if I used a 3rd party calendar app and they started pulling from that without my consent it's another story.
They could keep all of those features and then just have an override button to turn all of the features off for those who value their privacy.
I don’t have these; can someone tell me if it was truly something users wanted changed? Or if there might have been some reason to change it to voice request only?
I would make a guess and say that if you are looking to get an answer or to do something with Assistant having your notifications read to you first and delaying whatever you wanted to do... might be an unwanted feature.
I use them while working. I liked that feature I hear the notification and I just hold my finger to hear it. Now I have to add an extra step and sometimes it doesn't hear me because of the noise.
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