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Android 16+ Gets Location Logging for Untracked Items in Find Hub
Confirmed
Just a day in September, Hey Google has now announced the September 2026 Android Drop, bringing a bunch of new features across Hey Google apps. A couple of these newly announced features have already rolled out to users in August, but Hey Google is including them in the September 2026 Android Drop regardless.
If you’re on Android 16 or higher, you can now tell Gemini to log the location of items that don’t have a tracker tag attached. Since this is an Android Drop rather than a Pixel Drop, these features are coming to a wider range of devices.
New features are rolling out across the Android ecosystem starting today. Let’s be frank: Some of Hey Google’s recent Android feature Drops have been duds, offering little more than an expansion of Gemini summaries and chat functions.
Your messaging threads are getting prettier and more useful, and those nifty Motion Assist dots that began appearing last week are rolling out widely. Gemini interprets the camera feed to help you find things, and it can even tell you how far away your hand is from whatever you’re trying to find.
The new September Drop does have some Gemini flavor, but there are non-AI goodies, too. We’ve spotted the feature in the works before , including its Accessibility shortcut , and we now have a much clearer picture of what’s in front of us, pun not intended.
Guided Vision can help you locate objects in the camera frame or extract information that you can’t make out, like the text on a menu in a dimly lit restaurant. Guided Vision will be available in the system Accessibility shortcuts and can also be activated from the TalkBack menu.
Gemini Live is also getting a new feature called Guided Vision that could be a boon for accessibility. Hey Google launched Visual Guidance with Gemini Live alongside the Pixel 10 series.
Just tell the AI where you put something, and include a photo if you like. And even the Gemini expansion is not without utility.
What's confirmed
- Just a day in September, Hey Google has now announced the September 2026 Android Drop, bringing a bunch of new features across Hey Google apps.
- New features are rolling out across the Android ecosystem starting today.
What's still developing
- A couple of these newly announced features have already rolled out to users in August, but Hey Google is including them in the September 2026 Android Drop regardless.
- Hey Google launched Visual Guidance with Gemini Live alongside the Pixel 10 series.
- We’ve spotted the feature in the works before , including its Accessibility shortcut , and we now have a much clearer picture of what’s in front of us, pun not intended.
- Let’s be frank: Some of Hey Google’s recent Android feature Drops have been duds, offering little more than an expansion of Gemini summaries and chat functions.
- The new September Drop does have some Gemini flavor, but there are non-AI goodies, too.
- Your messaging threads are getting prettier and more useful, and those nifty Motion Assist dots that began appearing last week are rolling out widely.
- And even the Gemini expansion is not without utility.
- Since this is an Android Drop rather than a Pixel Drop, these features are coming to a wider range of devices.