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Year after year, Google Assistants develop and improve with a range of advanced features constantly introduced. Not all consumers, though, want glitches from Assistant. Any users say the Google Assistant fails to show up on their Android devices.

We have a variety of ways of dealing with or even deactivating the wizard and of mitigating trouble.

Table of contents:

1. Disable Google Assistant access on Headphones
2. Disable Voice trigger for the Google Assistant
3. Turn off Google Assistant completely
4. Revoke permissions and voice access to Google Assistant

How do I prevent Google Assistant from popping up?

Let’s begin with the Google app itself to fix any problems (which is the base of Google Assistant). Here are few items to do to solve problems with the Google app which may potentially lead to problems with the assistant himself:

• Reboot your device.
• Clear cache and data from the Google app. Open Settings > Apps > All apps or App manager > Google > Storage and clear cache and data there.
• Leave the Beta program. Open Play Store and search for Google. Scroll down and tap “Leave” under the Beta program section.
• Uninstall Google updates.

Solution 1 – Disable Google Assistant access on Headphones

Most reports mentioned show that the problem primarily exists on headphones. Users hear songs, podcasts, or a third thing, and the Google Assistant shows up with the irritating sound to avoid playing.

This normally occurs when the button Play/Pause on your headset is pushed and held. What Google Assistant is expected to activate by chance. It naturally depends on the kind of headphones that you use, but broadly speaking they are global.

The first and easiest way to eliminate activation on both wired and Wireless headphones is to stop Google Assistant. Here is what you have to do:

1. Open Settings.
2. Choose Google.
3. Select Account services and then Search, Assistant, & Voice.
4. Tap on Voice and disable Bluetooth audio recording, Allow Bluetooth requests with device locked, and Allow wired headset requests with device locked.
5. Restart your device and look for improvements.

Solution 2 – Disable Voice trigger for the Google Assistant

The next thing that we can do is deactivate the Voice trigger if the issue is global, and Google Assistant shows up without calling it. It is not called by speech (or shouldn’t at least) in that manner.

Follow these instructions to disable Voice match > Hey Google on your device:

1. Navigate again to Settings > Google > Account services > Search, Assistant, & Voice.
2. Open Google Assistant.
3. Select the Assistant tab.
4. Scroll down and tap Phone.
5. Toggle off the Hey Google option.
6. Just to be sure, get back to Search, Assistant, & Voice section.
7. Select Voice and then Voice Match.
8. Toggle off the Hey Google option if available.

Solution 3 – Turn off Google Assistant completely

Eveyou can uninstall the wizard on your smartphone if this doesn’t prevent bad annoying pop-ups. It is easy to re-enable, but with how much difficulty many people have, this is not very likely.

Take these steps to fully deactivate Google Assistant:

1. Navigate again to Settings > Google > Account services > Search, Assistant, & Voice.
2. Open Google Assistant.
3. Select the Assistant tab.
4. Scroll down and tap Phone.
5. Toggle off the Google Assistant option.

Solution 4 – Revoke permissions and voice access to Google Assistant

Finally, if you can’t delete Google Assistant from your computer after all these previous moves, ensure that all Google permissions are revokened and Voice Access is disabled in Default System Settings.

Here’s what you need to do:

1. Navigate to Settings > Apps > App manager or All apps > Google.
2. Revoke Microphone permission under Permissions for the Google app.
3. Now, get back to the list of all apps and tap on the 3-dot menu.
4. Select Default apps.
5. Scroll to the bottom and open Voice assistant.
6. Under both Wake with button shortcuts and Wake with Bluetooth audio select anything else but Google.
7. Get back to Default apps.
8. Open Assist & voice input.
9. Open Assist app.
10. Select None and exit Settings.
11. Restart your device and look for improvements.