Google is getting ready to launch AI-powered summaries on more Android devices

AI notification summaries volition shorten agelong texts oregon radical chats. | Image: Google

More Android phones volition soon enactment AI-powered notification summaries. The feature, which is bundled successful the latest mentation of Android 16, is lone disposable to Pixel devices for now, but its inclusion successful the update suggests that it volition get connected third-party phones next.

Google archetypal launched notification summaries for Pixel phones past month. Unlike Apple’s mentation of the diagnostic for iOS, Google is limiting it to chat apps, meaning you won’t spot immoderate wonky AI-generated quality summaries conscionable yet. Google says it volition condense longer messages and radical conversations into shorter snippets that you tin presumption astatine a glance.

Additionally, Google is launching a caller notification organizer that volition automatically radical and soundlessness “lower-priority” notifications related to promotions, news, and alerts from societal platforms. Some different updates coming to Android 16 see the quality to personalize your location surface with customized icon shapes and themes. You tin besides usage a caller expanded acheronian mode feature, which automatically darkens apps adjacent if they don’t natively enactment the theme.

Google is consolidating its parental controls wrong the Android Settings paper arsenic well, allowing parents to acceptable surface time, power app usage, and make downtime schedules from 1 place. Other features rolling retired crossed Android see a mode to spot scams utilizing Circle to Search, arsenic good arsenic an update to the Phone by Google app that lets you alert a household subordinate oregon person that a telephone is urgent, but you and the caller request to beryllium utilizing Android devices with Phone by Google acceptable arsenic the default calling app.

There are rather a fewer accessibility updates launching crossed devices, too. Google announced that it’s making its Expressive Captions feature — which attempts to seizure the strength of real-time code — disposable to everyone connected YouTube. This enactment volition beryllium disposable connected videos successful English that were uploaded aft October.

Expressive Captions connected Android devices volition besides observe and show someone’s emotions during a livestream, tagging them with emotions similar “[joyful]” oregon “[sad].” Other tweaks see the quality to activate dependable dictation with Android’s TalkBack surface scholar by utilizing a two-finger double-tap motion successful Gboard. You tin besides commencement utilizing Voice Access, which lets you power your telephone with your voice, by saying, “Hey Google, commencement Voice Access,” alternatively of having to pat your screen.

Google is launching Fast Pair for proceeding immunodeficiency arsenic well, which volition fto you link Bluetooth LE proceeding immunodeficiency to your Android instrumentality with 1 tap. This diagnostic is launching connected Demant proceeding immunodeficiency archetypal earlier rolling retired to Starkey devices successful aboriginal 2026. 

You tin find a afloat database of updates coming to Android 16 and Android devices connected Google’s website.