Google Is Getting Ready To Launch Ai-powered Notification Summaries On More Android Devices

AI notification summaries will shorten agelong texts aliases group chats. | Image: Google

More Android phones will soon support AI-powered notification summaries. The feature, which is bundled successful nan latest type of Android 16, is only disposable to Pixel devices for now, but its inclusion successful nan update suggests that it will get connected third-party phones next.

Google first launched notification summaries for Pixel phones past month. Unlike Apple’s type of nan characteristic for iOS, Google is limiting it to chat apps, meaning you won’t spot immoderate wonky AI-generated news summaries conscionable yet. Google says it will condense longer messages and group conversations into shorter snippets that you tin position astatine a glance.

Additionally, Google is launching a caller notification organizer that will automatically group and soundlessness “lower-priority” notifications related to promotions, news, and alerts from societal platforms. Some different updates coming to Android 16 see nan expertise to personalize your location surface pinch civilization icon shapes and themes. You tin besides usage a caller expanded acheronian mode feature, which automatically darkens apps moreover if they don’t natively support nan theme.

Google is consolidating its parental controls wrong nan Android Settings paper arsenic well, allowing parents to group surface time, power app usage, and create downtime schedules from 1 place. Other features rolling retired crossed Android see a measurement to spot scams utilizing Circle to Search, arsenic good arsenic an update to nan Phone by Google app that lets you alert a family personnel aliases friend that a telephone is urgent, but you and nan caller request to beryllium utilizing Android devices pinch Phone by Google group arsenic your default calling app for it to work.

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

Expressive Captions connected Android devices will besides observe and show someone’s emotions during a livestream, tagging them pinch emotions for illustration “[joyful]” aliases “[sad].” Other tweaks see nan expertise to activate sound dictation pinch 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 pinch 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 will fto you link Bluetooth LE proceeding immunodeficiency to your Android instrumentality pinch 1 tap. This characteristic is launching connected Demant proceeding immunodeficiency first earlier rolling retired to Starkey devices successful early 2026. 

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