Beyond smartphones, Google is also extending its design changes to Wear OS, its smartwatch operating system, and expanding the reach of its Gemini artificial intelligence system to more platforms. Those include watches and vehicles that run either Android Auto or are part of the Cars with Google program.

This new Google Android update stops smartphone users from doing three things — here’s what they are and why it matters.

Google I/O 2025 is still a week out, but Google shared a taste of the updates planned for Android and the larger Android Ecosystem it has in store this year in a separate event, dubbed The Android Show: I/O Edition.