Public service announcement for newer (8.x +) android custys.

Disabling Google Assistant. All the way.

Some people I've talked about this to lately have noticed that their handsets were still picking up audio cues for ads etc, even though they had turned the Google assistant "off" on their phone. The idea of the comms companies being CIA comptrolled keeps coming up, so here's a re-pasta.

Turn off all your apps and reboot the phone. Once the phone is to the home screen:

Go to app permissions.

Stop the google.app process.

Turn off __all_ permissions listed in the google.app permissions section.

Disable Google.app.

Reboot the phone.

Enjoy not being monitored by Google.

<Why does this matter?

This is one of the ways [they] do not need facebook to monitor you. :)

Apple and Microsoft are no better. Same idea applies to those: Deny permissions first, and then disable the apps and reboot.