June 2023
New features across your devices.
Explore, connect, and play. Android is introducing new features across your devices, so you can share more with the people you care about most.
Connectivity
Widgets
Widgets. Right at home.
Personalise your phone or tablet home screen with entertainment suggestions from Google TV, stock tracking from Google Finance, and curated daily headlines from Google News.4
Learn moreWidgets on the home screen of an Android tablet for Google TV, Finance and News.
Personalise your phone or tablet home screen with entertainment suggestions from Google TV, stock tracking from Google Finance, and curated daily headlines from Google News.4
Fast Pair
Set up Matter-enabled devices in just a few taps.
Quickly detect5 and securely set up any Matter-enabled device from your Android phone or tablet. Android detects new, compatible smart home devices (from any brand) nearby and prompts you to easily connect.
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Fast Pair automatically detecting a Matter-enabled light bulb on an Android phone.
Quickly detect5 and securely set up any Matter-enabled device from your Android phone or tablet. Android detects new, compatible smart home devices (from any brand) nearby and prompts you to easily connect.
Wear OS
Your favourite tunes, straight from your wrist.
Press play from your watch and let Spotify’s DJ deliver a personalised lineup of your favourite music, stream episodes of your favourite podcasts and listen to what’s in your heavy rotation.6
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Swiping through three new tiles from Spotify for Wear OS to listen to music and podcasts on a smartwatch.
Press play from your watch and let Spotify’s DJ deliver a personalised lineup of your favourite music, stream episodes of your favourite podcasts and listen to what’s in your heavy rotation.6
Google Apps
Google Play Books
Ignite a new passion 📚
Reading Practice helps new readers improve vocabulary and comprehension skills using their Android phones and tablets with thousands of compatible children's ebooks available – including options at no charge.7
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Using Reading Practice on an Android tablet to build new vocabulary and comprehension skills.
Reading Practice helps new readers improve vocabulary and comprehension skills using their Android phones and tablets with thousands of compatible children's ebooks available – including options at no charge.7
Gboard
Dive into new stickers.
Emoji Kitchen lets you remix your favourite emoji into stickers for Gboard. Now you can take a bite 🦈 of new aquatic-themed 🐬🐋 emoji combinations to bring even the most subtle conversations to life.8
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Using Emoji Kitchen on Android to create and share a shark emoji mashed up with a laughing emoji.
Emoji Kitchen lets you remix your favourite emoji into stickers for Gboard. Now you can take a bite 🦈 of new aquatic-themed 🐬🐋 emoji combinations to bring even the most subtle conversations to life.8
YouTube
Playlists, now with Shorts.
Add Shorts to your YouTube playlists for even more ways to save and curate content to watch over and over again.
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User saving a YouTube Short to a YouTube playlist on an Android phone.
Add Shorts to your YouTube playlists for even more ways to save and curate content to watch over and over again.
Protection
Security
Stay ahead of dark web data leaks.
Scan to see if your Gmail address has been leaked on the dark web and get guidance on how to protect yourself. Now available to anyone with a Google Account in the U.S.9
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An Android phone running a scan to see if a Gmail address has been leaked on the dark web.
Scan to see if your Gmail address has been leaked on the dark web and get guidance on how to protect yourself. Now available to anyone with a Google Account in the U.S.9
More features and updates
Messages by Google
Boost your messages 🚀
Turn on RCS in Messages by Google to message over Wi-Fi, share high-resolution photos and videos, see typing indicators and read receipts, and enhance security with end-to-end encryption.10
Download nowGoogle Keep for Wear OS
The list on your wrist.
Quickly see a pinned Google Keep note or to-do list on your watch without having to get out your phone.11
Download nowDiscover how Android connects your devices.
Sync your Android phone with your TV, watch or car for a unified experience. Move from one device to another seamlessly and make everything work better together. Securely and swiftly transfer large files to Android phones, tablets, and Chromebooks, even when offline.
Step into a storyA smartphone wirelessly connects to earbuds. A tablet wirelessly plays Spotify through a Nest Hub. A smartwatch wirelessly takes a photo on a phone.
Sync your Android phone with your TV, watch or car for a unified experience. Move from one device to another seamlessly and make everything work better together. Securely and swiftly transfer large files to Android phones, tablets, and Chromebooks, even when offline.
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Phones ready for action.
Experience these new features from Android on devices made for the latest and greatest.
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Experience these new features from Android on devices made for the latest and greatest.
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