Extra Android telephones will quickly assist AI-powered notification summaries. The characteristic, which is bundled in the latest version of Android 16, is just obtainable to Pixel units for now, however its inclusion within the replace suggests that it’s going to arrive on third-party telephones subsequent.
Moreover, Google is launching a brand new notification organizer that can routinely group and silence “lower-priority” notifications associated to promotions, information, and alerts from social platforms. Another updates coming to Android 16 embody the power to personalize your house display with customized icon shapes and themes. You can even use a brand new expanded darkish mode characteristic, which routinely darkens apps even when they don’t natively assist the theme.
Google is consolidating its parental controls inside the Android Settings menu as effectively, permitting dad and mom to set display time, management app utilization, and create downtime schedules from one place. Other features rolling out across Android embody a method to spot scams utilizing Circle to Search, in addition to an replace to the Cellphone by Google app that allows you to alert a family member or friend that a call is urgent, however you and the caller must be utilizing Android units with Cellphone by Google set as your default calling app for it to work.
Expressive Captions on Android units may also detect and show somebody’s feelings throughout a livestream, tagging them with feelings like “[joyful]” or “[sad].” Different tweaks embody the power to activate voice dictation with Android’s TalkBack display reader through the use of a two-finger double-tap gesture in Gboard. You can even begin utilizing Voice Entry, which helps you to management your cellphone along with your voice, by saying, “Hey Google, begin Voice Entry,” as a substitute of getting to faucet your display.
Google is launching Quick Pair for listening to aids as effectively, which can allow you to join Bluetooth LE listening to aids to your Android gadget with one faucet. This characteristic is launching on Demant listening to aids first earlier than rolling out to Starkey units in early 2026.
