New Android Drop adds remembered items in Find Hub, makes anti-nausea dots official
Summary
Google’s new Android Drop update adds features for many Android phones, including better item tracking without special tags, improvements in Google Messages, and a new tool to help reduce motion sickness. It also introduces Guided Vision to help users find objects using their phone camera and improve accessibility.Key Facts
- The update works on a wide range of Android phones, especially those running Android 9 or higher.
- Users can now tell Google’s AI, Gemini, where they placed items without needing special tracker tags; this info is saved in Find Hub.
- Guided Vision uses the camera and AI to help users locate objects and read hard-to-see details like dim text.
- Google Messages gets Google Keep integration for creating shared notes without leaving the chat.
- Messages threads can have custom chat themes using photos or wallpapers, changing bubble colors automatically or manually.
- Motion Assist, a feature that helps reduce motion sickness by showing moving dots during vehicle travel, is now official in Android 17.
- Motion Assist can be turned on manually or set to activate automatically when the phone detects movement in a car.
- These features are rolling out soon but may take days or weeks to appear on all devices.
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