A baffling problem. I’ll move this thread to the General Help & How To forum, where it may fare better.
Hi Mooncatt,
It ONLY happens when using wired headphones/headset WITH a mic. My wired headphones that don't have a mic don't cause this problem at all. I gave the jack a good shot of air a while ago and it didn't help :/
Thanks for the reply
It happens because the op plugged in a microphone, but the permissions to access it were toggled off. So everytime it's done anew, you will get the same message.
Use a headset without a mic. Do you still get the pop up?
I figured out this issue on my phone and it may be the same for y'all. I keep seeing this problem on forums (searched for weeks on a way to fix it to no avail) but nobody has suggested the actual audio jack being the issue instead of the Assistant or the operating system. For me it was the audio jack, so test it yourself.
Assistant was only popping up when I listened to music with headphones plugged into the jack, and then I realized it only popped up when I was walking around or on the subway (I live in NYC, so most of the time if I'm listening to music through headphones, I'm also moving). I tried listening to music at my desk at work and -- surprise! -- assistant wasn't popping up. It only popped up when I was moving because the plug was shifting around in the jack or rotating.
I tried to figure out why that may be and I realized none of my headphones have a third sensor on the plug. I don't use mic'd headphones, which come with three sensors -- all of mine only have two. The phone is built for 2 or 3 (the third conducts the mic) and if something inside the receptacle (dust or dirt or lint) keeps coming in contact with the third/mic sensor, Assistant pops up to tell you to configure your mic, and then the headphone plug rotates and the lint stops touching, and then it shifts again and the lint touches it and the Assistant comes back on, wash rinse repeat.
Basically, for me, I just blew into the headphones receptacle with some compressed air and whatever was in there coming in contact with the 3rd sensor is gone now and I don't have anymore Assistant problems. It might work for y'all too.
Welcome to AC!I have a Galaxy S20 phone. No headphone jack! And I've been having this same problem forever. I use Phonax hearing aids, primarily to listen to music from YouTube Music via bluetooth. That stupid prompt is not only scary at times, but interrupts phone calls, in person conversations, and recording sessions (that's a real no-no). I don't use Google Assistant at all, and have turned off notifications, but IT CONTINUES. What is the solution to this? Why hasn't Google addressed it?
Galaxy S20 FE 5G
Android version 13