Help a noob please

Hi,

So I just sold my iPhone 16 Pro Max and got a Pixel 9 Pro XL. Since I'm new to Pixel (got a long history with OnePlus though) I have a few questions:

  1. Why can't I geht rid of the "at a glance" widget? I'm not a fan of third party launchers, so please tell me I can customize it somehow.

  2. Why can't I put any shortcut or widget in the red area? All that space ist lost as well just because of the "at a glance" widget? I refuse to believe that.

  3. On my OnePlus (Google Assistant) and on the iPhone (Siri) it wasn't a problem to set an alarm using a voice command. However Gemini tells me it can't so anything that involves clocks. I'm using it in my mother tongue German. But please tell me this is joke/there is some other way.

Please help me out guys. Thanks.

Hi,

So I just sold my iPhone 16 Pro Max and got a Pixel 9 Pro XL. Since I'm new to Pixel (got a long history with OnePlus though) I have a few questions:

  1. Why can't I geht rid of the "at a glance" widget? I'm not a fan of third party launchers, so please tell me I can customize it somehow.

  2. Why can't I put any shortcut or widget in the red area? All that space ist lost as well just because of the "at a glance" widget? I refuse to believe that.

  3. On my OnePlus (Google Assistant) and on the iPhone (Siri) it wasn't a problem to set an alarm using a voice command. However Gemini tells me it can't so anything that involves clocks. I'm using it in my mother tongue German. But please tell me this is joke/there is some other way.

Please help me out guys. Thanks.