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Voice assistants like Google Assistant and Siri are nothing new, but I wouldn’t blame anyone for giving up on them. Siri’s frustrations have been well-documented, and Google spent the past two years stripping Assistant of features in preparation for Gemini’s widespread rollout. Gemini is officially Google’s voice assistant of the future, making its way to Android, Wear OS, and Nest hardware as the default in 2025. Now, users simply need to trust it.
For many, that trust will be difficult for Gemini to earn. I became disenfranchised with Google Assistant over the past few years, like many others, due to its lost features and general unreliability. That said, I decided to give Gemini a fair shake on Wear OS with my Samsung Galaxy Watch 8, and now I can’t imagine using my smartwatch without it. Having Gemini on my wrist saves me time every day with these five tasks, and here they are.
Do you use Gemini on your Galaxy Watch? 8 votes Yes, all the time. 13 % From time to time. 38 % I tried it once and didn't bother again. 25 % No. 25 %
Setting nighttime alarms
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Gemini forces you to reconsider what a smartwatch assistant can do. If you try requests that Google Assistant previously failed to complete, you may be surprised at how well Gemini performs thanks to natural-language understanding and deep integration with Wear OS apps. I used to spend a few minutes per night setting alarms, until I realized Gemini could create and enable all of them at once.
I’m a deep sleeper, and I set over 10 smartwatch alarms daily to make sure I wake up on time. Creating so many on such a small screen becomes a hassle quickly. This is where Gemini comes in: I can say a list of alarm times, and the assistant will set them up for me in the Samsung Alarm app automatically. It’s handy enough that I can’t imagine how I used to waste time manually swiping through times and tapping around the Alarm app.
Here’s the command I use: “Set alarms for 7:00 AM, 8:00 AM, 8:30 AM, and 9:00 AM.” The times might vary, but it’s always a handful of alarm times in the same request.
Plus, Gemini can handle conversational alarm requests, so you can forget the days of Assistant failing when a query wasn’t worded properly. Say something like, “Set five alarms every 30 minutes starting at 6:00 AM,” and it just works. This is the kind of small, everyday task I want Gemini on Wear OS to help me with.
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