Google Enhances Android with New AI Features and Safety Updates
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Google is rolling out new AI-powered features for Android, including enhanced scam call detection, a 'wardrobe' feature for Google Photos, AI insights for Google Play Books, and expanded availability for the Personal Safety app.
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Google is preparing to release Android 17 later this year and is adding new features to its Android operating system. These updates focus on enhancing user safety and integrating AI into various Google applications.
Google is adding new features to Android before releasing its next major update, Android 17, later this year.
Alongside a more sophisticated version of scam call detection, Android users will also reap the benefits of updates to Google Photos and Circle to Search the company teased earlier this year, and a new AI-powered recap feature in Google Play Books.
Android has had the ability to warn you if you're on a scam call since 2024, but Google's new fake call detection feature takes the idea even further.
As part of an update to Google's Phone app, Android users will now be warned to end a call if a caller is impersonating someone on their contact list.
"When a contact calls you and you're both using Phone by Google, their device sends a silent confirmation signal in real time to your device to verify the call is legitimate and truly coming from the contact's device," Google writes in a blog explaining the new feature.
"Because this digital handshake uses end-to-end encrypted Rich Communication Services (RCS) technology, it is completely private."
If your Phone app doesn't receive the handshake, it knows to show you a warning so you can immediately end your call.
Google says fake call detection is available on devices with Android 12 and up that use its phone app.
The company also plans to make its Personal Safety app available to users under the age of 13, so they can display their medical and emergency contact information on their lock screen and quickly enable safety features like car crash detection.
Outside of the realm of improving safety on Android, two key apps are getting new AI-powered skills.
Google is rolling out its "wardrobe" feature to Google Photos, giving the app the ability to catalog the clothes you've worn in photos and help you virtually try them on.
Google Play Books, meanwhile, can now use AI to provide contextual information about whatever you highlight and recap what you're currently reading.
Google Photos wardrobe is available on select devices in the US, India and Brazil running Android 10 and up.
Google Play Books' new AI insights are rolling out now to select titles in English.
Questions ouvertes
- Will the new AI features be available on all Android devices or only select models?
- What is the exact release date for Android 17?
- How widely will the AI insights in Google Play Books be rolled out beyond English titles?
- What are the specific 'select devices' that will receive the Google Photos wardrobe feature?
