Google’s Android update tackles motion sickness, accessibility, and more

Google announced it is rolling out five new updates designed to make Android phones more accessible, useful, and personalized. The features include those aimed at reducing motion sickness, helping blind and low-vision users navigate, remembering misplaced items, and adding new ways to personalize Google Messages. The most interesting update is 'Motion Assist', a feature designed to help people who experience motion sickness while using phones in a moving vehicle. It adds a bubble overlay to the screen that moves in response to the vehicle’s motion, reducing the disconnect between what users see and what their bodies feel. Users can customize the bubble's shape, color, and transparency, with the feature available to Android 17 users. Google is also introducing 'Guided Vision' for blind and low-vision users, combining the phone's camera with Gemini to read small print, view menus, or identify objects. It provides voice guidance when the camera isn't positioned correctly, rolling out to phones running Android 9 and newer.