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On you Android phone, following the instructions in this doc, under the section ‘Instructions on your companion phone or tablets (Android)’
Launch the ‘Android Wear’ app on your phone or tablet. Tap on the three vertical ellipsis on the top right hand corner of the screen and click on “Report Wearable Bug” to capture a bug report from the watch
On the watch, you will observe a notification card with the text “Bug report #X is being generated”. It can take up to 20 minutes for the bug report to be generated and transferred to your phone.
Once the bug report is done, the notification card on the watch changes to “Bug report #X captured” and you will receive a notification on the phone that reads “Wearable bug report finished. Tap to send." Tap on this notification and email the bug report to a pre populated email address
Instructions on your companion phone or tablets (Android)


On your Android device, go to Settings > About phone or About tablet.
At the bottom of the screen, touch 'Build number' seven times in quick succession. You’ll see a message saying you’re now in developer mode.
Press Back to go back to the main Settings screen.
Touch Developer options.
At the top of the screen, make sure 'Developer options' is set to ON.
Check the box next to USB debugging.
Check the box next to Bug report shortcut.
Reproduce the issue or error message on your phone or tablet. It’s important that your device logs at least one occurrence of the problem.
Immediately after seeing the issue, press and hold the power button until the power menu appears.
Select Take bug report, then select Report in the dialog that follows.
After a significant delay -- up to two minutes -- your phone or tablet will vibrate and display a notification saying ‘Bug report captured’. Touch the notification to open Gmail with the report attached.
After replying to this message, you can disable developer mode and bug reports by going to Settings > Developer Options and sliding the top toggle to OFF.

Note: Please upload the bug report and screenshot to google drive and share the folder to android-bugreport@google.com, then share the link here.

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Having the same issue for pixel 4a

Same issue here with a Pixel 5, my wife's Pixel 6 works fine.

Same issue for pixel 6 set to Canada English.

Been having this issue for the last couple of days on a Pixel 6 Pro set to English (Australia). Have tried all the usual fixes to no avail. Also not in the beta program.

The same for me.. pixel 6 pro

An update on my side of things, so looks like I wasn't in the Beta Program related to the "Google Assistant" app but I am in the "Google" beta. Checked the Play Store today for an update and this appeared which did not appear yesterday for me. Updated this and now I have been able to process that additional download for Google Assistant.

Same with my pixel 6

The issue reported here has been fixed and it will be available in a future release.

observe issue on Pixel 5 for the last fortnight When is this 'future release' with the fix going to be deployed. Having a crippled phone without voice assistant functionality.

I have the same problem on a Pixel 6A. I've tried clearing the cache. All the apps are up to date. Android is up to date. I tried setting the language to US English and then it stopped working all together. This is pitiful

Same issue, pixel 6

Same here pixel 6a

I have 4 models of pixels and my pixel.5 is the only one effected I see different models are effected with the same issue . The assistant not working makes the phone useless in my work applications . I have bought almost every generation of the pixel and can say these issues should not persist with no fix . I have done everything listed for fixes no luck only thing left is to factory reset .  

Google? Any fixes?

Still happening in Feb 2023.

Same issue here. Changing the language from Australian English to US English seems to be a workaround but that's not good enough.

Pixel 7 pro - experiencing the issue now for last few days at least

I have suddenly got this problem this morning, Pixel 6. HELP!!!

I JUST got this issue this morning. Pixel 6 Pro. I'm in Canada. I switched to English (United States) and that fixed the problem. But I shouldn't have to do that. Tried everything to fix. Google 1 support was clueless.

UPDATE: went into Google Play store and Uninstalled the GOOGLE app. By doing this it will say "Update" . Do not update. Went back into the Google app, selected English (Canada), and now it works. The latest update of the Google App must be what messed up the assistant.

For me (Pixel 6a) the solution was to update the Google app. NOT the Google Assistant app.

Thanks to comment #26. Solved the issue! American Assistant has been so annoying.

Had the same problem on my Pixel 6a with UK english.  I uninstaled the updates for the "Google" application, and then it started working again.  I then updated the "Google" app again, and the assistant was then able to download the update it needed.

Fixed this by going to assistant settings and adding Deutsch (Deutschland) as an additional language. I now have English (Australia) and Deutsch (Deutschland) and the assistant seems to be behaving now.

Had the same issue. Fixed it by adding Deutsch (Deutschland) as an additional language. Now I have English (India) and Deutsch.
Looks like the same thing worked for many people.

Go to settings - apps - Google app - storage and cache - clear cache - try again 😀👌

Same issue on brand new pixel 6. Really annoying. None of the listed actions are making a difference

Same issue on Pixel 8. My first Google phone and it will be the last one. Hate it already. How can there be a fault known for years that is still frustrating lots of people. Either Google aren't clever enough to fix it, or they simply don't care. Sigh.