Google's push for Gemini over the past year has been clear as day, with Google Assistant's eventual retirement being a question of when, not if. The writing has been on the wall, with Google now officially starting to wind down the 2016-released assistant.

Google is finally moving on from Google Assistant. The company will be upgrading “more” users from Google Assistant to Gemini “over the coming months,” according to a blog post. The classic Google Assistant “will no longer be accessible on most mobile devices or available for new downloads on mobile app stores” at some point “later this year.