I got Circle to Search on my Pixel today and am shocked they decided to have it take over an old, common function: Holding down the hold button, which has always launched Google Assistant.<p>The idea that disrupting a long-held UX by a company like Google is really surprising.<p>On top of that, in the age of AI and chat-like solutions, the idea that the core way to access Assistant functionality would be replaced is completely shocking.<p>Though Circle to Search is just now rolling out, lots of people on the Google Support forums are torqued, and I suspect others will be too as the feature roles out to more and more people.<p>Is this something that bothers/concerns you?
I turn off assistant - this will just be another thing to disable. I don't even use Google search anymore.<p>I want to bring all my data home again off cloud and when I do that I'll stop using all their services entirely.
You can turn it off <a href="https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/14508957" rel="nofollow">https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/14508957</a>