Written by Ivana Google Workplace
Google Assistant is a smart and useful smart assistant app that works on voice recognition, voice matching, and artificial intelligence. Compared to Google’s previous smart assistant Google Now, Google Assistant is much more advanced and can participate in two-way conversations.
What’s great about Google Assistant is that you can use it both on iPhone and Android, but in general, people that have Android use it more frequently, because iPhone users tend to use Apple’s built-in assistant Siri.
Google Assistant can be really helpful; it can help you find the best restaurants or book a flight. However, sometimes Google Assistant can be a real nuisance when it keeps on popping up without being prompted.
Recently, many people have reported an issue where Google Assistant pops up automatically on their Android phone while they are talking to other people, or they are busy working, or doing other activities.
If you too have experienced this issue, in this article we’ll walk you through several ways to fix Google Assistant popping up randomly.
The easiest and simplest way to stop Google Assistant from popping up is to disable it completely. If you are not using it at all and want to turn it off:
There is an alternative way to disable Google Assistant:
If you change your mind and want to enable Google Assistant again, just follow the steps above and switch the toggle to ON.
Google Assistant can pop up unexpectedly when you press and hold the Home button accidentally. To disable Google Assistant from popping up every time you hold the Home button a bit longer:
If you don’t want to disable Google Assistant completely, but it frustrates you that it pops up randomly without being prompted, you can disable the “Hey Google” or “OK Google” voice command.
If Google Assistant randomly pops up when you are using headphones, then there might be some issue with them.
To disable Google Assistant while you are using headphones:
If you want to learn more troubleshooting tricks about Google’s services, read how to fix the ‘Could not connect to Google Home Mini’ error message you get on your device.