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Image: GoogleEmma RothCloseEmma RothPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All by Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO.More Android phones will soon support AI-powered notification summaries. The feature comes bundled in the latest version of Android 16 and rolled out on Pixel devices last month, but now other phone makers like Samsung can begin adding it to their devices.Unlike Apple’s version of the feature for iOS, Google is limiting it to chat apps, meaning you won’t see any wonky AI-generated news summaries just yet. Google says it will condense longer messages and group conversations into shorter snippets that you can view at a glance.Additionally, Google is launching a new notification organizer that will automatically group and silence “lower-priority” notifications related to promotions, news, and alerts from social platforms. Some other updates coming to Android 16 include the ability to personalize your home screen with custom icon shapes and themes. You can also use a new expanded dark mode feature, which automatically darkens apps even if they don’t natively support the theme.Google is consolidating its parental controls within the Android Settings menu as well, allowing parents to set screen time, control app usage, and create downtime schedules from one place. Other features rolling out across Android include a way to spot scams using Circle to Search, as well as an update to the Phone by Google app that lets you alert a family member or friend that a call is urgent, but you and the caller need to be using Android devices with Phone by Google set as your default calling app for it to work.There are quite a few accessibility updates launching across devices, too. Google announced that it’s making its Expressive Captions feature — which attempts to capture the intensity of real-time speech — available to everyone on YouTube. This option will be available on videos in English that were uploaded after October.Expressive Captions on Android devices will also detect and display someone’s emotions during a livestream, tagging them with emotions like “[joyful]” or “[sad].” Other tweaks include the ability to activate voice dictation with Android’s TalkBack screen reader by using a two-finger double-tap gesture in Gboard. 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Google is expanding its AI-powered notification summarization feature, initially launched for Google Pixel devices, to a broader range of Android devices. This development, detailed by Emma Roth, signifies a significant step in Google’s ongoing efforts to integrate artificial intelligence into everyday smartphone experiences. Currently, the functionality is limited to chat apps, meaning users won’t receive AI-generated news summaries just yet. The core of this update involves Google’s ability to condense longer messages and group conversations into shorter, more manageable snippets, offering a quicker overview of extended communications.

Alongside this primary feature, Google is also introducing a notification organizer designed to automatically group and silence lower-priority notifications related to promotions, news alerts, and social media updates. This aims to reduce notification fatigue and improve the overall organization of users’ mobile experiences. Furthermore, the latest version of Android 16 includes several other enhancements, such as the ability to personalize the home screen with custom icon shapes and themes. This allows for greater user customization, while the expanded dark mode feature automatically darkens apps even if they don’t natively support the theme.

A key element of this update is Google’s consolidation of parental controls within the Android Settings menu, granting parents greater control over screen time, app usage, and downtime schedules. Other features rolling out across Android include a way to spot scams using Circle to Search, alongside an update to the Phone by Google app that enables users to alert family members or friends to urgent calls, even when both parties are utilizing Android devices with Phone by Google as their default calling app.

Significantly, Google is also focusing on accessibility improvements. For example, the Expressive Captions feature, which attempts to capture the intensity of real-time speech, is being made available to everyone on YouTube videos uploaded after October. This feature, initially designed to detect and display emotional tags like “[joyful]” or “[sad]” during livestreams, is now accessible to all English-language YouTube videos. Other tweaks include the ability to activate voice dictation with Android’s TalkBack screen reader using a two-finger double-tap gesture in Gboard, and the introduction of Voice Access, which allows users to control their phone using their voice by simply saying, “Hey Google, start Voice Access.”

Finally, Google is advancing connectivity options with Fast Pair for hearing aids, enabling users to connect Bluetooth LE hearing aids to their Android devices with a single tap – a feature initially launching on Demant hearing aids before expanding to Starkey devices in early 2026. This marks another effort by Google to streamline the connection process for wireless audio devices. Google continues to refine Android through frequent updates, constantly adjusting to user demands and technological advancements.