Google Assistant is a tool that makes the life of any user very easy. It’s great to be able to type everything you want, to be able to type all the messages you want to send, to be able to use your voice to control other devices or even pick up your phone to do something different. In addition, it will be more complete now that it is powered by AI. However, let’s not deny that its presence is sometimes a bit invasive because it has so many ways to activate itself.
A very clear example is in Xiaomi, which activates Google Assistant by pressing the power button. It’s annoying if you want to turn off your phone, reset it, or put it on airplane mode. Also, you can activate it by mistake when trying to take a screenshot, but not anymore. We will teach you how to remove Google Assistant from your Xiaomi Power Button.
Why disable Google Assistant on your Xiaomi Power Button and how to do it?
By default, many Xiaomi, Redmi or POCO phones come with Google Assistant configured to activate when you press the power button. In addition to asking the classic “Ok, Google” command, it can be useful at some point. However, and for the reasons we explained above, this feature can be very annoying, as the chances of activating it by mistake are high. Fortunately, it can be easily disabled, you just have to follow these steps:
Go to the settings menu on your phone.
By just doing that, you don’t have to worry about launching Google Assistant when you press the power button. From now on, tapping will open a floating window with classic options like “Close”, “Restart”, “Airplane”, “Quiet”. By the way, these steps work in both MIUI and HyperOS, so the tutorial works for any Xiaomi customization layers.
