Google Assistant button - remap workaround?

It should be possible, but looks like this system setting not working at least on nokia 7.2 - other assistant apps can not be selected. Looks like a bug in nokia's software layer.

Yes, setting a different assist app works on all phones I tried. Last was a Nokia 2.2. I was able to pull Microsoft's Cortana using the GA button. Google would hate me doing that on a video 🤤

Yep, Firefox worked too. I could open a new Fox tab by pressing that handy button. But I'd have liked it more if I could just open existing opened tabs instead of a new blank tab :))

First you have to turn assistant off from the settings and then install a button mapper to customize. I have customised the assistant button to take screenshots, splitscreen for supported apps and toggle flashlight. Till now it has been working flawlessly in my 7.2. No root was required.

Hello,

I tried the app called "Button Mapper: Remap your keys" from "flar2", and it does not recognise the assistant hardware button on my Nokia 8.3. I also tried setting assistant app to none and tried deactivating Google assistant app button, but no luck, remapper didn't recognise the button.

Btw, shouldn't the on/off option be called "Assist Button", instead of "Goggle Assistant Button"? Since you may in theory be Firefox anyway (in theory because it's not working on mine. When I press it, it gives a message "Set Google as default assistant app to access your assistant"), so it's not hardcoded to Google, right?

I don't use assistant apps, and therefore expect to be able to Remap this button.

The idea of voice assistant cloud listening all the time is way beyond my privacy threshold, I'm sure Nokia's engineers can understand that. So I imagine fixing that would be somewhat important.

Seems to me like it's something wrong on Nokia side. I change assistant app to Firefox, but the icon of the chosen app remains of the Google assistant. I go back to default apps and there it shows Firefox icon as default assistant. I go into default assistant setting again, and see Google assistant icon, it doesn't change. If I tap to change it, the selected app is Firefox, though it doesn't launch Firefox nor a new tab in it.

Seconded. I just bought the 8.3 via my work and love it, it's a great phone, but the GA button is beyond useless to me in its current state. I don't use GA and don't want to. I can only imagine such "one track mind" (or "one usecase fits all users") design is the result of google strong-arming phone manufacturers to support its monopolies rather than customer-serving design.

I'd much rather make this button trigger my automation app, Automate, and let it in turn run whatever actions I want (like toggling do-not-disturb). Or at least let apps like flar2's Button Mapper detect the buttonpress on their own.

Nokia C21 plus y is there no front camera in the phone but in the cartoon it is been said there is front camera on it.

And most importantly Y is the the camera quality tooooo poor please is making me mad.

Yes, the useless button can only be disabled if one doesn't want to use it to trigger Google Assistant. Even setting another app as an assist app leaves the button to force the user into making GA the default assist app.

I also tried many apps, but none helped anymore in putting the button to a usable use case.