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- Last September, Google disabled automatic Assistant notification reading on the Pixel Buds Pro.
- Now Google is doing the same for Assistant with all headphones.
- You can still hear your notifications by manually asking Assistant to read them.
Headphones paired with smartphones offer a whole lot more than just a private way to listen to music, and especially when headphones are integrated with Google Assistant, they instantly become powerful tools for interacting with our phones. While you’ve historically been able to tap into the full range of Assistant features through compatible audio accessories, late last summer we started to see Google dialing some of that back, closing the door on one such ability for the Pixel Buds. Now we’re learning that this was only the first domino to fall, and Google’s doing the same with headphones across the board.
We’re talking about the ability to have Assistant read notifications to you automatically. If you pressed to activate Assistant and there were unread notifications waiting on your phone, Assistant would read them to you through your headphones or earbuds.
