If you'd come to me a few months ago and asked me what my biggest pet peeve with my Google Pixel Watch 3 was, I'd have probably said something like how finicky it is to charge. But right after that, it would have been the fact that its voice commands still ran on Google Assistant while my Pixel 9 Pro ran on Gemini.

Considering that Assistant and Gemini both have the same wake-up word, that led to some awkward situations. Asking my watch to do something almost always led to my phone picking up what I was saying, and meant I had two devices trying to compete for my attention.

I thought having Gemini on my Pixel Watch would help solve this issue — but that seems to have been wishful thinking.

Assistants need to work together more seamlessly

Just the other day, I was doing... something, I

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