- Google is rolling out various new Android features this month
- These include fake call detection, help with creating outfits, new emoji combinations, and more
- Some of these updates are out now, while others are coming soon
Google announced all sorts of software features at I/O 2026 and the Android Show last month, but now even more upgrades are coming — seven, to be exact, and they’re either rolling out immediately or arriving later in June.
Some of these new features require specific phones, but others will work on almost every Android handset, so there should be something for everyone.
Below, we’ve detailed all seven of these new Android features, starting with arguably the biggest of the bunch.
1. Fake call detection
Technology is making it increasingly hard to tell if a call is genuine or a scam, with some scammers even able to spoof numbers in your phone book, so a call might appear to be coming from a friend or family member when it’s actually not.
But Google has now launched a fake call detection tool that can automatically verify whether a call is genuinely coming from your contact’s device or not. If it isn’t, an alert will pop up on your screen so you’ll know to end the call.
Fake call detection is available now on devices running Android 12 or above, but it requires you to use the Phone by Google app, which limits you to Pixels and select non-Pixel devices.
2. Google Photos wardrobe
Google Photos wardrobe is an upcoming feature that makes it easier to keep track of your various clothes and combine them into outfits.
Google Photos will catalog the various clothes you’re wearing in photos, allowing you to filter them by category, such as jewelry or tops, and then combine them into outfits that you can virtually try on, with the app showing you a picture of how you might look in a specific combination.
The rollout of this feature starts next week for devices running Android 10 and above, but initially, it’s just for users in the US, India, and Brazil.
3. ‘Find the look’ with Circle to Search
Some Android devices already allow you to circle a whole outfit with Circle to Search and then tap ‘find the look’ to hunt down each individual piece, but now this tool is expanding to more phones, so that every device running Android 14 or above and that has Circle to Search will be able to make use of it.
If your phone falls into that category, you should find that this feature has already arrived.
4. AirDrop support on more devices
AirDrop support through Quick Share finally arrived on some Android phones a little while ago, and now it’s becoming more widely available.
It was already available on some Samsung, Google, Oppo, and Vivo phones, but now it’s rolling out for the Xiaomi 17T Pro, OnePlus 15, and Honor Magic V6, with the Motorola Razr Fold 2026, the Oppo Find X8 series, and the Honor Magic 8 Pro getting it soon.
5. Personal Safety app improvements
The Personal Safety app lets you do things like store and share medical information and automatically contact emergency services, and now some of these tools are being made available to kids under 13.
Soon, they’ll be able to display their medical information and show their emergency contacts on their phone’s lock screen, as well as be able to turn on car crash detection, which will contact emergency services automatically in the event of a crash.
They’ll also be able to do things like schedule Safety Checks, which are simple ways to let an emergency contact know you’re OK. These tools are coming soon globally.
6. Get insights into books
If you use Google Play Books, then you’ll find some handy new features in that too, as an update has started rolling out that lets you recap what you’ve read so far by tapping ‘Catch me up’.
You can also now highlight a passage and ask questions about it for deeper insight into things like themes and characters.
However, these ‘book insights’ will only work with select English titles, so they’re not universally available.
7. New Emoji Kitchen combinations
Emoji Kitchen lets you combine two emojis to create a new one, and now it’s expanding, with new combinations being made available.
We don’t know all of them, but two examples Google gave were combining a bee with a ring, for a ‘blingy bee’, and combining a mouse with a heart, which you can see the result of above.
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