The Top New Features in Google’s Android 17—and Gemini Intelligence—Coming This Summer

The Google I/O yearly developer league is astir the corner—May 19—but successful what is rapidly becoming a tradition, Google announced caller features for Android and Gemini a week early.

The quality came connected Tuesday via the second-ever Android Show connected YouTube. This livestreamed presumption helps Google dispersed retired the cavalcade of updates from the often jam-packed I/O keynote.

The Android Show focused connected caller features successful Android 17, the adjacent mentation of Android coming aboriginal this summer, arsenic good arsenic respective updates to the Gemini adjunct experience. It continues the taxable acceptable past twelvemonth by Sameer Samat, president of the Android ecosystem, of turning Android into an “intelligent operating system.” Samat and his squad purpose to bash this by adding a big of caller AI-powered features to the mobile OS, including a generative AI widget-creation instrumentality and an improved voice-to-text exemplary that uses AI to chopped those “ums” and “ahs” arsenic you speak.

What if you don't privation AI baked into your phone? “A idiosyncratic ever has control,” says Mindy Brooks, vice president of merchandise absorption connected the Gemini Intelligence experience. “They tin crook it off, they tin marque a choice, and we are precise wide astir providing those tools for them to marque the choices that enactment for them. We truly wanted to absorption connected bringing features that are aligned with what users are saying they privation and need.”

Here's everything you request to cognize astir what was announced during the 2026 Android Show. And if you privation to larn much astir the recently announced Googlebook level for laptops, we've got you covered here.

Gemini Intelligence

Google is officially packaging galore of the caller Gemini features it introduced connected flagship smartphones successful caller months arsenic “Gemini Intelligence,” which brings the champion of Gemini to immoderate of the astir precocious devices connected the market. That means galore of these features aren't needfully tied to Android 17, and volition rotation retired successful waves starting with Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones this summer, arsenic good arsenic smartwatches, cars, astute glasses, and laptops aboriginal successful the year.

There's a caller ocular indicator erstwhile Gemini is “thinking” and moving connected your behalf, and you'll spot these visuals popular up passim the operating system.

Multi-Step Tasks

Google debuted Gemini Task Actions a fewer months ago, allowing you to inquire Gemini to publication an Uber oregon bid your favorites from DoorDash. When you trigger a task, Gemini opens a virtual app acquisition and runs done the motions portion you tin proceed utilizing your telephone for thing else. When it has completed the task and needs you to property a fastener to spot an bid oregon publication a reservation, it'll ping you to marque that last call.

These actions are expanding to enactment much apps and services, and it whitethorn not adjacent beryllium indispensable to person a circumstantial app installed, arsenic Gemini tin grip these tasks via the Chrome browser. So if you spot an absorbing brochure portion traveling, you tin drawback a pic and inquire Gemini to “find a circuit similar this connected Expedia for 4 people.” Gemini volition either tally the enactment done the Expedia app if you person it installed oregon caput to Expedia's website successful Chrome.

“We are moving toward a satellite wherever it starts to enactment successful a overmuch much broad way,” Brooks says. “You're going to spot it disposable to galore much apps, and also, I deliberation the truly breathtaking happening is Chrome's automation connected Android being expanded arsenic well. Those 2 things combined volition truly make a broad automation suite for our users.”

Chrome Auto Browse

Speaking of Chrome's automation upgrade, Android users volition beryllium capable to deploy Gemini arsenic a browsing adjunct successful Chrome starting successful precocious June. Google says Gemini tin assistance research, summarize, and comparison contented connected the web, and you tin telephone connected it to grip an assignment booking oregon reserve a parking spot. For example, if you spell to SpotHero's website to find a parking spot—instead of entering each the details manually and making the reservation, you tin inquire Gemini, and it'll bash the occupation for you.

AI-Powered Autofill

We're each alert of the autofill relation successful Chrome—and the information risks that travel with utilizing it. Google is present upgrading it with Gemini's Personal Intelligence, wherever Gemini tin root your accusation from a myriad of first-party Google apps similar Gmail and Google Photos. That means adjacent much substance fields tin beryllium filled retired automatically. For example, if you request to participate your passport ID oregon driver's license, Gemini tin find that accusation from your emails—or possibly a photograph of your passport you saved successful Drive—so you don't person to food your passport from a drawer.

Google says connecting Gemini to Autofill is opt-in, and you tin crook it connected oregon disconnected successful your settings.

Create a Widget

Widgets person been an integral portion of Android since astir the beginning, and present you tin make your ain (with AI, naturally). The Create My Widget diagnostic lets you physique customized widgets conscionable by speaking to Gemini successful earthy language. You tin resize these connected the location surface and trade them connected aggregate platforms, including Wear OS and Googlebooks.

“Our extremity is to beryllium capable to person it arsenic customizable arsenic possible, pulling from each sorts of information sources that you inquire it to beryllium capable to make a customized widget for you,” Brooks says. Maybe that means creating a upwind widget that shows Celsius and Fahrenheit for erstwhile you're traveling abroad. Or a countdown to your adjacent marathon. Or a widget that shows 3 caller high-protein repast prep recipes each week.

What does this mean for the aboriginal of the location screen? Will we inactive person app grids? Or volition each person's telephone person its ain look and feel, drummed up by earthy language? Brooks says Android has ever been bully astatine customization, truthful we should expect adjacent much power implicit however our phones look and work. “I deliberation you'll spot a batch much of that successful the aboriginal connected however we tin proceed to bash this successful a delightful way, to marque your instrumentality genuinely yours.”

Rambler

The dependable dictation diagnostic connected Google's Gboard keyboard is getting a Gemini upgrade. A caller diagnostic called Rambler smartens voice-to-text; Gemini volition recognize erstwhile you accidental “um,” “ah,” and “like,” and volition region those verbal fillers from your dictated text. If idiosyncratic interrupts you portion you're dictating and you respond, Gemini volition chopped that portion from your transcription truthful you don't person to delete a clump of words and commencement over.

The full constituent is that you're capable to talk naturally, and the last effect volition beryllium a trimmed mentation of what you privation to say, minus the filler words we usage successful earthy speech. That does mean Gemini does a small editing to massage the sentences by guessing astatine what it thinks you privation to say. It works successful aggregate languages and is besides multilingual, truthful if you often blend English and Spanish, it volition power betwixt some successful a azygous message. Google says audio is not stored oregon saved.

Screen Reactions

Moving connected from AI-focused improvements, Android 17 volition debut an casual mode to make a absorption video. You cognize those videos connected societal with the idiosyncratic successful the country talking and a webpage oregon app astir what they're reacting to successful the background? You tin present grounds yourself and your surface simultaneously without dealing with third-party apps oregon a greenish screen. This diagnostic volition rotation retired to Pixel devices archetypal this summer.

Upgrades to Instagram and Edits

There's a large collaboration with Meta successful Android 17 to amended the Instagram camera experience. That includes adding Ultra HDR enactment for seizure and playback, enactment for built-in video stabilization, and integration with your telephone camera's nighttime mode. Instead of utilizing your phone's camera and past adding those images oregon videos to station connected Instagram, the thought is that with these improvements, you tin present trust connected the autochthonal Instagram camera acquisition without losing representation quality.

Another Meta partnership, Android 17 gets immoderate exclusive tools successful Instagram's Edits app, similar Smart Enhance, which uses on-device AI to upscale photos and videos. Sound separation volition besides abstracted audio tracks from wind, noise, and music, and fto you boost sounds and chopped retired the worldly you don't privation to hear.

Google says the Instagram app is present afloat optimized for tablets, making usage of the larger surface space. Also, Google says Adobe is bringing its fashionable video editing app, Premiere, to Android (following its motorboat connected iOS past year), with exclusive templates and effects for creating YouTube Shorts from the app.

3D Emoji

Every fewer years, Google redesigns the mode emoji look connected its platforms. Remember blob emoji? (RIP.) Now it's clip for different shake-up with Noto 3D. These caller 3D emoji aren't a melodramatic alteration from the existing crop, though the level shapes are gone successful favour of much extent and realism. They'll beryllium disposable crossed Google's bundle starting with Pixel phones aboriginal this year.

Pause Point

Instead of going acold turkey and switching to a dumb phone, there's a caller instrumentality successful Android 17 that’s designed to marque your smartphone usage much intentional: Pause Point. You tin alteration this connected “distracting apps,” and Pause Point volition springiness you a 10-second model asking wherefore you opened the app, offering alternatives, similar a breathing exercise, oregon the quality to acceptable a timer for the app truthful you don't walk excessively overmuch clip watching Instagram Reels. It mightiness suggest different app, similar an audiobook.

It's meant to beryllium a mediate crushed betwixt app timers and much restrictive tools similar the Brick, which disables an app from launching erstwhile you've tapped your telephone connected the carnal device. Google says it volition motorboat much integer well-being tools aboriginal this year.

Quick Share to AirDrop Expansion

Last fall, Google amazed everyone with a mode to stock files betwixt Pixels and iPhones utilizing its Quick Share diagnostic with Apple's AirDrop—a capableness it developed without Apple's help. Google expanded it to Samsung phones with the motorboat of the Galaxy S26 series, and present it's adding different telephone makers to the list. Later this year, Oppo, OnePlus, Vivo, Xiaomi, and Honor phones volition each beryllium capable to stock files and photos to iPhones via Quick Share to AirDrop.

If your instrumentality is not compatible, Google says Quick Share tin make a QR codification connected immoderate Android phone, allowing you to stock information to iOS devices instantly implicit the cloud. Quick Share volition besides beryllium disposable successful circumstantial apps, similar WhatsApp.

Android Auto Updates

Android Auto has a brand-new look, and it tin present accommodate to immoderate dashboard surface size oregon shape, beryllium it round, rhomboid, oregon rectangular. Google Maps bleeds edge-to-edge, taking up the afloat screen, and you'll yet spot the Material 3 Expressive plan connection that Google introduced past year, with expressive fonts and smoother animations. There's broader widget support, and Google's caller Immersive Navigation, which shows a 3D presumption successful Maps with much elaborate buildings, terrain, lanes, postulation lights, and more.

Most caller cars person screens for passengers to ticker media, and Google says the caller Android Auto acquisition supports 60 frames per 2nd successful Full HD and Dolby Atmos for prime car brands. And if you're playing media connected the main driver's display—like a video podcast—it volition modulation to audio-only erstwhile the car switches to thrust mode. Other apps similar YouTube Music and Spotify are besides getting a ocular glow-up to beryllium adjacent easier to usage successful Android Auto.

Gemini is already disposable successful Android Auto, but Google says if you person a telephone that supports Gemini Intelligence, you'll beryllium capable to entree other features successful the car. For example, if a person asks for an code portion you're driving, Google's Magic Cue feature—which debuted connected the Pixel 10 bid past year—will hunt done your calendar, emails, oregon texts for the reply and connection a one-tap response. That besides means Gemini Task Automations are available, allowing you to inquire Gemini to bid from a circumstantial spot connected DoorDash for pickup. All you'll request to bash is corroborate the bid with a pat aft Gemini puts your petition into a cart.

And for anyone with a conveyance with "Google built-in"—that's wherever Google worked with the car marque to integrate its bundle with the vehicle's hardware—there are immoderate caller capabilities, too. There volition beryllium enactment for gathering apps, truthful you tin instrumentality Zoom calls from your dashboard. Gemini tin besides reply questions astir your circumstantial car, similar archer you if that informing airy is origin for concern. And due to the fact that the bundle tin pat into the car's hardware, you'll beryllium capable to get unrecorded lane guidance via the vehicle's front-facing camera consecutive successful Google Maps' Immersive Navigation. Google says these features volition beryllium rolling retired “throughout the year.”

Say Hello to Googlebooks

It's not replacing Chromebooks, but “Googlebook” is the sanction of the caller level powering a question of laptops coming aboriginal this year. Google hasn't shared the sanction of the operating system—more details volition get later—but this level is powered by Android technologies with Gemini astatine the core. Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo volition each beryllium making Googlebook laptops, though Google declined to remark connected whether determination volition beryllium a Pixel Googlebook (dare I say, a Pixelbook?).

We've got much details connected the Googlebook successful a abstracted story, including immoderate of the capabilities the institution teased, however the caller level works with Android phones and iPhones, and the “glowbar” that's designed to marque the laptops instantly identifiable.

Speaking of caller hardware, portion Google didn't person overmuch to stock astir astute glasses during the Android Show, the institution says determination volition beryllium a sneak peek of however Gemini works connected its upcoming glasses astatine Google I/O connected May 19.

Other New Android 17 Features

Here are a mates of different noteworthy improvements successful Android 17.

• Switch to Android: Google says it has worked with Apple to amended the iOS-to-Android transportation process, meaning much of your information is carried implicit with less hiccups erstwhile you power to Google’s mobile OS. That means your passwords, photos, messages, apps, contacts, eSIM, and adjacent your homescreen layout volition get carried implicit from iPhone to Android. The wireless process volition motorboat archetypal with Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel devices this year.
• Phone telephone spoofing protection: Google is moving with banks and fiscal institutions to automatically extremity telephone calls from “spoofed” numbers that unreal to beryllium from your banking entity. It volition lone enactment with prime institutions, and you person to person the banking app installed. Android asks the app if the slope is really calling you.
• Device theft: With Find Hub's Mark arsenic Lost feature, you tin present fastener a telephone with biometric authentication alternatively of conscionable utilizing the device's passcode oregon PIN. So if a thief manages to get your passcode oregon PIN, they can't crook disconnected instrumentality tracking oregon re-access the telephone if it's marked arsenic lost. Enabling that besides hides Quick Settings and disables caller Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections connected the phone.
• Location sharing: There's a caller determination fastener that lets you stock your precise determination temporarily for circumstantial tasks erstwhile an app is open. That way, you don't person to ever assistance an app entree to your precise position. There's besides present a caller indicator that shows erstwhile an app is accessing your location, akin to however your telephone indicates erstwhile an app is utilizing your microphone oregon camera.
• Hiding information codes: When you get a one-time password (OTP) via text, there's a hazard that idiosyncratic could intercept that accusation to hijack your account. Now, Android volition automatically fell these information codes for 3 hours from astir apps to forestall unauthorized access.