With its 'Material 3 Expressive' design, Google aims to make Android 16 and Wear OS 6 livelier (and safer) environments.

It’ll come as no surprise that Gemini, Google’s AI, will play a big part in Android 16. However, it’s now moving beyond phones and coming to Wear OS, where it will replace Google Assistant. Gemini allows you to speak naturally, it can connect with a wide range of apps, and then pull required information from them.

With version 16 of the OS, we'll finally get subtle blurs and background shading. When you pull down the Notification Shade, instead of seeing a flat background, you'll get a subtle background blur and shading to give the UI more depth and movement.

Google appears to be beginning the rollout pf the redesigned account switcher UI for some Android users on Maps.

It's a lot of new stuff, from the biggest Android redesign in years to Gemini rolling out across more devices.

Google says the stable version of Android 16 will start rolling out widely in June 16, rocking a fresh design and a bunch of new features.