Overview
- Google began rolling out the September Android Feature Drop on Tuesday, delivering five new features to Android devices through app and service updates rather than a Pixel-only release.
- Find Hub gains a 'Remembered' tab that lets Gemini log where you placed items without a tracker, store an optional photo, and recall that location on devices running Android 16 or later.
- Motion Assist becomes official for phones on Android 17, showing a subtle moving bubble overlay that can auto-activate in cars, buses, or trains and be customized through Quick Settings to help reduce motion sickness.
- Guided Vision in Gemini Live will offer spoken framing guidance and verbal descriptions to help blind and low-vision users read labels, find objects, or center items in the camera, and it is coming soon to phones running Android 9 and up in countries where Gemini is available.
- Google Messages now supports inline, collaboratively editable Google Keep lists that began rolling out today and a private per-chat Chat Themes option, and Google says availability will vary by OS version and country because features are delivered in waves via app updates.