Google has made a couple of new announcements, including the September Android Drop and a new image creation and editing tool called Google Pics. The September Android Drop brings five new features to Android, such as allowing the user to keep track of important items in Find Hub, reducing motion sickness during one’s ride, and more.
September Android Drop: What’s New?
Google has announced several new features coming to Android, bringing smarter ways to keep track of belongings, reduce motion sickness, get help through the camera, and personalise everyday conversations.
Keep track of important items with Gemini
Soon, Gemini will be able to remember where you have kept important items and save their locations in Find Hub. This could prove useful for things that do not have a tracker attached, such as a passport, spare key or other important belongings.
For example, you can tell Gemini to remember that your passport is in a particular drawer and optionally add a photo. When you need it later, you can then ask Gemini where you kept it or check the remembered items section in Find Hub. The feature is coming to devices running Android 16 or newer in countries where Gemini and Find Hub are supported.
Motion Assist
Android 17 is also getting a feature designed to help reduce motion sickness while using a phone in a moving vehicle. Called Motion Assist, it places a subtle bubble overlay on the screen that moves in response to the vehicle’s movement.
The idea is to reduce the mismatch between what your eyes see on the screen and what your body feels during a journey. Users will be able to set Motion Assist to activate automatically, add it to Quick Settings and customise the bubble’s shape, colour and opacity.
Gemini Live gets Guided vision
Google is expanding Gemini Live with Guided vision, a feature that is designed to help blind and low-vision users better understand their surroundings through the phone’s camera. By sharing the camera with Gemini Live, users can ask about objects or text in front of them. It can help with tasks such as reading small print on a food label, navigating a menu in a dimly lit restaurant or identifying objects around the home.
Guided vision can also provide voice instructions if the camera is not positioned correctly. Gemini can guide users to reframe the camera, pan across an area or centre an object to get a better view. The feature is coming soon to phones running Android 9 and newer in regions where Gemini is available.
Google Keep comes to Google Messages
Google is also making collaboration easier in Google Messages by integrating Google Keep directly into conversations. Users will be able to create and update notes and lists without leaving a chat, which could be useful for shared grocery lists, holiday planning or other group tasks.
Everyone in the conversation can view, edit and add to the note. The feature can be accessed through the + icon in Google Messages, with the rollout starting now.
Google Messages gets custom chat themes
Google Messages is also getting more personal with Chat theme. The feature lets users give individual conversations their own backgrounds and colour combinations. Users can choose from available wallpapers or use their own photos, while message bubble colours can automatically match the selected background or be adjusted manually.
Chat theme is already available in Google Messages.
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Google Pics: Google’s New Image Creation & Editing Tool
Google is expanding its AI image creation capabilities with Google Pics, a new image generation and editing tool built around its Nano Banana model. The company says Pics will roll out over the coming weeks to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers as well as most Workspace business customers.
Google Pics is designed to give users more control over how they create and edit visuals. It can be used for everything from designing posters and social media graphics to refining digital illustrations. The tool will be available as a standalone product, while also being built into Google Workspace, allowing users to work with images without constantly switching between different apps.
One of the more useful features is object segmentation, which lets users isolate a specific object in an image and make changes to it without affecting the rest of the picture. Users can also leave text comments on particular areas of an image to request targeted edits, with multiple changes possible in a single workflow.
Pics also allows users to edit or translate text directly within an image. Google says the tool can make these changes without disrupting the existing design or altering the font, which could make it useful for adapting graphics for different audiences or languages.
The tool also supports multiple generations from a single prompt, giving users several versions to choose from rather than having to repeatedly generate an image until they get a suitable result. Creations can also be shared with friends and teammates, who can collaborate on the same image and make edits together.
Google is also bringing Pics directly into Workspace. The integration is aimed at users who already work with large numbers of images across Docs, Slides and Drive, allowing them to create and edit visuals without copying content between different applications or opening another tab.
The Workspace integration starts with Google Docs and Slides, while support for Google Drive is expected to roll out over the coming weeks. This means users will eventually be able to create, edit and refine images directly within the Workspace apps where they are already working.
Author: The Mobile Indian Network
Source: The Mobile Indian
Reviewed By: Editorial Team
