New Android Drop adds remembered items in Find Hub, makes anti-nausea dots official

Let’s be frank: Some of Google’s recent Android feature Drops have been duds, offering little more than an expansion of Gemini summaries and chat functions. The new September Drop does have some Gemini flavor, but there are non-AI goodies, too. Your messaging threads are getting prettier and more useful, and those nifty Motion Assist dots that began appearing last week are rolling out widely. And even the Gemini expansion is not without utility. Since this is an Android Drop rather than a Pixel Drop, these features are coming to a wider range of devices. The OS version does matter, though. If you’re on Android 16 or higher, you can now tell Gemini to log the location of items that don’t have a tracker tag attached. Just tell the AI where you put something, and include a photo if you like. Google Messages has taken over as the default texting app on most Android phones, and it’s getting a couple of useful additions in the Feature Drop. You can now access Google Keep from a conversation to instantly create a shared note. Keep will be accessible from the “+” menu alongside images, location, and stickers. Messages may also suggest Keep as an action on Gemini Intelligence devices. Keep appears as an overlay so you don’t have to leave Messages, and the resulting Note is shared with others in the conversation.