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I just tried asking my phone to turn on the flashlight using Gemini. It worked. https://9to5google.com/2024/11/07/gemini-utilities-extension...

Ok I tried literally last week on Pixel 7a and it didn’t work. What model do you have? Maybe it requires a phone that can do on-device models?

I just tried it on my Galaxy Ultra s23 and it worked. I then disconnected internet and it did not work.

Works on a Pixel 4A 5G..

Pretty sure that's not doing any fancy on-device models!

That said, there was a popup today saying that assistant is now using Gemini, so I just enabled it to try. Could well have changed in the last week.