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Everything Google is sunsetting

9 things Google has scheduled to be taken away — soonest first. Each links to Google’s own announcement.

Feature →14 days

Google Google is retiring Gemini Gems, its custom-instruction assistants, and replacing them with Skills; Gems move to the Settings panel on 17 November 2026 and are then removed on a phased schedule — personal accounts in November 2026, Workspace business/enterprise no sooner than 1 March 2027, education no sooner than 1 June 2027.

Google Google is retiring five preview audio models from the Gemini API on 17 November 2026 — the text-to-speech models gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview, gemini-2.5-flash-preview-tts and gemini-2.5-pro-preview-tts, and the Live API models gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview and gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025 — directing developers to the gemini-3.8 Live and TTS successors

Feature →8 weeks

Google Gmail is discontinuing three features for third-party (non-Google) email accounts on the web — "Send as" (sending from a non-Google address like an @outlook.com or @yahoo.com account), Gmailify, and POP fetching of external mail into the Gmail web interface — with full removal in January 2027. Google-hosted addresses (Gmail and Workspace) and the Gmail mobile app are not affected.

SaaS · signalled ·not announced

Google Google is discontinuing the classic Google Assistant on mobile devices — phones, tablets, Wear OS watches, compatible headphones, and phone-projected Android Auto — replacing it with Gemini; Google's public post says this happens "later this year," and Google's emails to users (reported 4 August) say removal begins 4 September 2026

Date not announced

API ·not announced

Google The Maps JavaScript API Heatmap Layer and Drawing Library are no longer supported and have been removed

Date not announced

Google Google Reader was shut down

Google Google will sunset the Content API for Shopping on 18 August 2026, replacing it with the newer Merchant API

Google Google Cloud Translation Hub, the self-service portal for translating large volumes of documents into many languages, was deprecated on 30 June 2025 and shut down on 20 September 2026; the underlying document-translation capability lives on in the Cloud Translation API (Advanced / v3), which Translation Hub users must move to

Google Google has deprecated its Gemini 2.5 models in the Gemini API and directs developers to Gemini 3.x replacements; as of the latest deprecations page only Gemini 2.5 Flash Image carries a shutdown date (2 October 2026), while 2.5 Pro, 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Flash-Lite are listed as deprecated with "No shutdown date announced"

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