You must be familiar with the At a Glance widget if you are an Android user. It is a super useful widget available across all Android devices and is the default feature of Pixel devices. Apart from displaying the time and date, it supports many other things such as event reminders, trip reminders, and updates about the weather at your location. This is super handy. It was previously counted as a part of Google Assistant, but now Google has decided to give it its own unique identity.
At a Glance no more uses the Google Assistant branding
If you had to add the At a Glance widget to your device’s home screen, you should navigate to the “Google Assistant” section to locate it. But no more. Google Assistant has detached from the front in Google’s most recent beta version, 15.11. Moreover, they have separated the At a Glance widget from the Assistant, giving it its own distinct identity and independent control over its functions. This means At a Glance is no longer part of Google Assistant.
Google renamed “At a Glance” to “Assistant at a Glance” in October last year, but a recent update reverted the change back to simply “At a Glance.” The change can be seen in the Settings and the Widgets section. Well, the brand is slowly removing the existence of Google Assistant from the world of Android.
The brand wants its AI-based Gemini to replace Google Assistant. The users are already free to install the Gemini app and that will automatically replace the Assistant on your smartphone. And now the new changes done in the naming of At a Glance seem in line with the plan of the brand.
The widget undergoes no other changes except for the name. The widget and its functionality remain the same. It would work the same way it used to earlier. However, as highlighted by 9To5Google, there’s a bug in the widget that makes the three-dot icon disappear. Clicking on that place will still redirect you to the settings menu, which is the intended behavior. The brand will likely fix the update in the coming weeks.
You must be familiar with the At a Glance widget if you are an Android user. It is a super useful widget available across all Android devices and is the default feature of Pixel devices. Apart from displaying the time and date, it supports many other things such as event reminders, trip reminders, and updates about the weather at your location. This is super handy. It was previously counted as a part of Google Assistant, but now Google has decided to give it its own unique identity.
At a Glance no more uses the Google Assistant branding
If you had to add the At a Glance widget to your device’s home screen, you should navigate to the “Google Assistant” section to locate it. But no more. Google Assistant has detached from the front in Google’s most recent beta version, 15.11. Moreover, they have separated the At a Glance widget from the Assistant, giving it its own distinct identity and independent control over its functions. This means At a Glance is no longer part of Google Assistant.
Google renamed “At a Glance” to “Assistant at a Glance” in October last year, but a recent update reverted the change back to simply “At a Glance.” The change can be seen in the Settings and the Widgets section. Well, the brand is slowly removing the existence of Google Assistant from the world of Android.
The brand wants its AI-based Gemini to replace Google Assistant. The users are already free to install the Gemini app and that will automatically replace the Assistant on your smartphone. And now the new changes done in the naming of At a Glance seem in line with the plan of the brand.
The widget undergoes no other changes except for the name. The widget and its functionality remain the same. It would work the same way it used to earlier. However, as highlighted by 9To5Google, there’s a bug in the widget that makes the three-dot icon disappear. Clicking on that place will still redirect you to the settings menu, which is the intended behavior. The brand will likely fix the update in the coming weeks.