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Google’s Pixel Buds Lose Ability to Automatically Read Unread Notifications

www.droid-life.com Google's Pixel Buds Lose Key Assistant Feature

Your Google Pixel Buds are losing a feature this week, although Google is making it sound like you wanted this to happen. In a Google Assistant support post, Google announced that Google Assistant spoken notifications through the Pixel Buds will no longer happen when... #Google #GoogleAssistant

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Sounds like a Google thing to do. Remove features that were useful. Remember when Maps in Android Auto would give you addresses in your calendar or would recommend a destination based on your upcoming appointments? Now you have to tell it your destination or open the calendar app.
- I also remember when some Google things would tell me when to leave for an appointment to get there on time.
  
  It still does. It's just buried now and not very convenient
- On the maps app, they recently removed the little media player controls that showed up at the bottom when something, anything, was playing. Just removed it for seemingly no reason.
  It was the only maps app that would do that. Waze has to install an applet for each media player app you want to control, and guess what, unless it's Spotify and a handful of other popular apps, you're out of luck. No generic media control interface. It's so backwards! Just take whatever's playing and give me forward, back, and pause!
  
  Google maps just removed one of their tabs on the bottom where it was one tap to start your commute to work if you were at home or to home if you were at work.
  Used it twice a day every day and then all of a sudden it disappeared. Now i have to search for my home or my work and press it, then hit start navigating. It's only an extra button press but when you do it every day and there was a better way before it gets super annoying fast.
  
  Yeah. I think the bottom line is that if you're still using Google Maps instead of Android Auto, you're bad and should feel bad. Personally, I hate every car newer than mine because of similar practices in what seems like the entire auto industry
  
  Same feel as my fitbit sense 2. Only media control is for YouTube music. My android wear had generic media controls for any app not supported. I don't want YouTube music and saying it's the only app supported just means I won't buy another Fitbit or Google branded device.
  
  I feel that. I got a Garmin watch that thankfully has a generic media control. Going the way things are going, maybe its days are numbered and it'll be removed without warning, despite not being Google
- "Google stop tracking me!"
  Google works hard to remove identifiable data
  "Google removed features that required my identifiable data, those bastards!"
  
  They can recommend something that I put on my calendar myself. I already told them where I was going, they can put it on my maps. Now if I used a 3rd party calendar app and they started pulling from that without my consent it's another story.
  
  They could keep all of those features and then just have an override button to turn all of the features off for those who value their privacy.

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