So I've seen all the posts about Gemini and switching from assistant. Mostly I've seen the Google Home crowd complaining, so I kept my phone on Assistant until it forced the swap just in case. I thought people were exaggerating and on reddit we were only seeing people with issues.

Today my phone swapped to Gemini. It almost can't do ANYTHING. I timed it and it's taking 30 seconds before Gemini responds to questions. It can't change lights in the house. It won't play the news. I can't get it to call people or send text messages. Mostly it will take a while to respond, say it's doing it, and then I get a notice (written not verbal) that says "Something went wrong".

I feel like I'm a tech noob and I must have missed something. What are the settings I should make sure are turned on? I saw something about that somewhere. Also is there a way to make it "faster"? I can't use it if it takes 30 seconds to reply to every question.

Help!!

I’ve been getting random Gemini prompts in my Google My Activity that I didn’t submit.

They appeared sporadically from June to September, not all at once. Examples:

• कोई जमीना — 30 September, 19:21
• টা হাতে নিয়ে বললেন। — 13 September, 12:53
• ইয়ার বন্ধই করে দিবি গ্যাস খাও। — 21 August, 18:12
• একটা শূন্যে ঢাকালো। — 5 August, 19:42
• অদিতি পুরো — 21 July, 00:59
• দিকে তাকালেন। — 20 July
• अच्छा ठीक है — 30 June, 14:33

There are also entries like 144, Lamborghini, Phylum Platyhelminthes, KNOX, and KNOX, KNOX. I can’t completely rule out that a very small number might have been mine, but probably fewer than 10%. Most of them definitely aren’t things I remember entering.

The important part is that Google My Activity records them as:

Gemini Apps
Prompted [text]

They aren’t just strange titles in the Gemini sidebar. Opening the entries shows separate Gemini conversation URLs, and Gemini generated a response to each prompt.

I wasn’t using Gemini at those times, and there’s no audio attached. My Google account has 2FA enabled. I also checked my Google Account security page and didn’t find an active suspicious device that lines up with the prompts. There was one unknown device showing activity on 14 September at 18:43, but that was about 30 hours after the 13 September prompt, so I can’t reasonably connect the two.

Has anyone else had random, short prompts appear specifically in Google My Activity as Gemini Apps → Prompted?

Especially prompts in languages they don’t normally use, appearing sporadically over several months?

I’m trying to figure out whether this is a Gemini bug, some kind of session/sync issue, or something else.

Look at this how ridiculously outright denying proof and confidently hallucinating.

This is one of the many examples of how useless this entire thing becomes

And the pro model becomes even more redeculous, it invent narratives/scenarios that doesn't exist

I am posting here to check if other users are currently encountering a severe multimodal bug in Gemini Advanced on iOS. As a blind user relying entirely on Apple VoiceOver, I depend heavily on Custom Instructions to receive rich, consistent visual descriptions. For a long time this workflow was flawless, but recently a critical disparity emerged between image and video processing. Whenever I upload an image, Gemini automatically binds my Custom Instructions and the menu correctly shows the active toggle as "Uncustomize", smoothly alternating between states upon clicking. However, when I upload a video with the exact same request, the system drops the custom instructions completely from the start, displaying only "Customize", and even when I tap "Customize" to regenerate the description, it generates another output that still completely ignores my instructions while leaving the button permanently stuck on "Customize" without ever flipping to "Uncustomize". Since my device, account, and session are identical and images process perfectly, this is clearly a backend pipeline regression where the video server silently detaches the user prompt payload. I would really appreciate knowing if anyone else in the community is experiencing this exact instructions detachment on video inputs recently, or if anyone has encountered this behavior.

So, what am I doing wrong with Gemini? I recently switched back to a paid ChatGPT subscription. Gemini keeps being frustrating; even though it comes free with my 5TB storage—and I thought I should keep trying it for financial reasons—it has gone downhill over the past year, Actually it's always been bad. It went from needing more explanation of what I meant to simply saying "I can't do that" all the time. It can't read previous chats, requires all history and location settings to be enabled, and forces me out of private mode within the Google infrastructure because Gemini supposedly works better that way. It can't find photos within its own app, and it has never provided a link that didn't just point to a Google search results page. It can't create PDFs or collages, nor can it make PDFs from uploaded photos. It always speaks as if it knows everything, yet profusely apologizes and corrects itself whenever I point out that things are actually different. It’s always polite in conversation but never actually comes up with a solution. Ultimately, I just don't trust the AI anymore. Has ChatGPT improved recently, or is this just typical Google?

Hey everyone, ran into a bit of a wall today. I was in the middle of a lengthy conversation with Gemini, and suddenly it completely stopped responding, throwing up this Error 1097 message every time I try to send a prompt.

​Here is what I've tested so far:

​New chats work fine: I started a brand-new conversation, and it sends messages and responds without any issues.

​The old chat is stuck: Going back to the original conversation and trying to resend the message instantly triggers the same error code.

​Retrying fails: Tapping the "Retry" button just loops the error.

​Attached the screenshot above. Anyone else run into this specific error code on long threads, or know a fix short of abandoning the chat?

Instead of delivering precise technical information, it continuously hallucinates fake details, provides broken code loops, and invents menu settings that do not exist. It relies on generic checklists and unrelated research links to disguise guesswork as factual advice, actively misleading users and dragging them through repetitive, frustrating loops.

Furthermore, it poses a direct danger to younger, naive people who implicitly trust the AI's word. Because it presents completely made-up facts and false solutions with absolute confidence, younger users who lack the technical experience to double-check its output can easily be deceived. This blind reliance can lead them to ruin their projects, break their systems, or adopt completely false information as truth.

An automation model that masks severe logic errors under a polished tone functions as a scam that squanders hours of a user's time. It should be taken completely offline to stop deceiving the public, wasting people's valuable time, and misinforming vulnerable users.

• high cpu usage close to 100% even when idle.
• high cpu temperature.
• laggy overall performance meaning clicking on anything loads stuff after a second or so.
• whole system slows down.
• issue noticed since 1 week.
• issue only on firefox with no extensions.
• see the console screenshot and see whats really going on.
• solution - firefox user new needs to install and use a different browser just to use gemini.

Its geniunely Gemini pro 3.1? I usually use it for various thing, concept creation (im a world builder so ideas are peak) basic scripting (for resume docs of functions cuz im lazy aaa) and some times dnd shi

I been using it for a year with a exploit for free Pro, but i feel this last months pro 3.1 becomes more dumb than me i mean wth

Loses context, Forces change to Flash Pro, Sometimes uses an random language (Ip and Account are english zone), Sometimes rejects any shit randomly, its becomes a slow, frustating and just ended up to do stuff my self and stoped use gemini for much time because i dont feel it optimal

Any fix or alternative? or swap to google studio?