Google's Gemini AI now automates multi-step tasks on Android while Apple's Siri features stall

Gemini can now automate some multi-step tasks on Android

Google on Wednesday announced a series of updates to its Gemini AI-powered features on the Android operating system, the most notable being a new way to use the AI to handle multi-step tasks like ordering an Uber or food delivery. These automations join other Gemini improvements shipping today, including an expansion of scam detection for phone calls and Circle to Search updates that now let you identify all the items on your phone's screen. The automations, explains Google, allow users to essentially offload their to-do list to Gemini. In practice, however, the types of things that Gemini can manage are still limited. The company says that the feature, which is in beta, will initially support select apps in the food, grocery, and rideshare categories. It will also be limited to the Gemini app on certain devices, including the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Samsung Galaxy S26 series. And it will initially be available only in the U.S. and Korea. AI-powered automations could potentially go wrong, of course, so Google has added some protections. For starters, the automations can't be kicked off without an explicit command from the device's owner. As they run, you can watch their progress in real-time and stop the task if it's making a mistake or getting stuck. Google notes also that the automations take place in a secure, virtual window on your phone where they can only access limited apps, not the rest of the data on your device. The feature ties into the growing trend of using AI to automate more tasks in users' personal lives. ChatGPT, for instance, lets users create tasks that can be run on schedules or at specific times, as well as offering an agent that can complete a variety of computer-based tasks like navigating a calendar, generating a slideshow, or running code. Anthropic's Cowork, meanwhile, brings the capabilities of its Claude AI to non-coding tasks, letting non-developers automate everyday file and task management. And, of course, an AI tool called OpenClaw recently went viral for its ability to manage everyday tasks like sending emails, managing calendars, checking into flights, and more. Another Gemini update arriving now is the expansion of a Scam Detection feature for phone calls, which is becoming available on Samsung Galaxy S26 series devices in the U.S. (The feature is already offered on Pixel phones in the U.S., Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, and the U.K.) Google is also using its Gemini on-device model to detect scam texts in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. on Pixel 10 series devices, and soon on the Galaxy S26 series phones, as well. Finally, Google says its Circle to Search feature, which lets you use gestures like scribbles and circling to initiate searches, can now search for everything you're seeing on the phone screen, not just a single object. That means you can search every item of clothing and every accessory in an outfit you like, or learn more about a group of things and the related topic on the screen. Google has been steadily releasing Gemini updates to its Android ecosystem at regular intervals through new operating system updates and updates targeted toward its flagship phone, the Google Pixel, via its frequent updates known as Pixel Drops. Meanwhile, Apple has been struggling to release a more comprehensive AI feature set, which is set to include an AI-powered Siri -- a launch that was recently pushed back again to later in the year.

Google and Samsung just launched the AI features Apple couldn't with Siri

Google just announced that Gemini will soon be able to take care of some multi-step tasks on your phone, like ordering food or hailing a car, starting first with the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and the just-announced Samsung Galaxy S26 phones. It all sounds a bit like features Apple announced for Siri way back at the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference -- before Apple delayed those planned features in March 2025 and which still aren't released. Onstage, Sameer Samat, Google's president of Android, showed off a demo of how Gemini's new agentic features would work to help wrangle a pizza dinner order from his busy family group chat. Samat asks Gemini to look at the chat thread and figure out what to order, and then make the order with a delivery app. Onscreen -- in a prerecorded video, it wasn't live -- you can see Gemini figuring out what everyone wants from the group chat and showing that in a window. Then the user, via voice request, tells Gemini to complete that order, naming a specific pizzeria. Gemini then clicks through GrubHub to prep the order, all still onscreen. When the order is ready, Gemini sends an alert so the user can review it and actually press the submit button. Setting aside that this situation doesn't seem that complicated to do by yourself in the GrubHub app (or even by calling the pizzeria to talk through it with a human), this is a potentially big moment for agentic AI. Google just recently added the ability for Gemini to auto-browse for users in Chrome, and being able to do something similar right inside of Android feels like a logical next step; Google clearly wants Gemini to be thought of as a helpful agent or productivity partner rather than just a chatbot or a series of AI models. Assuming the agentic Gemini features also launch "soon" like Google is promising and that Apple doesn't pull a rabbit out of its hat, Google will also beat Apple to the punch on some of its most impressive Apple Intelligence demos -- also only shown in prerecorded videos -- from that WWDC 2024 show. One feature Apple showed off would have let Siri understand what's on your screen and take action on it, meaning you could ask Siri to add an address from a Messages thread to the contact card of that person you're texting with. Apple demoed how Siri would be able to take actions inside of and across apps for you. The company said Siri would even be able to understand your personal context, meaning you could ask it when your mom's flight was landing and the assistant would pull the information from an email and show it to you. Nearly two years later, none of that is available yet. When Apple announced the features would be delayed, the company even pulled an advertisement showing off the features. And based on reporting from Bloomberg, some of the features may not arrive until iOS 27. There are still many questions about Gemini's new capabilities, of course. They'll need to actually ship. We'll have to try them to see if they are as useful and functional as advertised -- Google is calling this initial launch a "beta," so there could be some rough edges. And we don't know how many developers will actually let Gemini browse through their apps on behalf of users, which Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel likes to call the DoorDash problem. (Google says Gemini will be able to work in "select rideshare and food apps.") But Google seems to have leapfrogged Apple in a big way, and now Apple has even more to do to catch up.

Android Update Puts Gemini AI In the Driver's Seat for Ride-Hail, Food Orders

Google crossed "start applying smartphone AI to tasks" off its task list with an update announced Wednesday that lets users deputize the company's Gemini AI to manage ride-hail and food- and grocery-delivery services. This new option, confined for now to Google's Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL plus Samsung's just-announced Galaxy S26 series, will let you ask for Gemini's help with those chores with a long-press of the power button on those devices. Google doesn't specify which ride-hail and food-procurement apps Gemini's new feature will support, nor does it describe how complicated your requests can get. It only name-checks DoorDash (allowing for the possibility that your AI-ordered dinner will then be delivered by a robot) and then says it will work with "select apps only." It does, however, outline a number of guardrails that Google has coded around this venture into agentic AI: Gemini will keep you updated about the progress of an automated task with notifications, allowing you to stop it at any time, and it will run each task "in a secure, virtual window on your phone" that keeps it out of other apps. Since we can't seem to go more than a day without a new story of AI running amok, using this feature with caution and careful oversight seems well-advised. In-Call Spam Protection for Galaxy S26 Google separately announced Wednesday that Galaxy S26 phones will also get the in-call scam protection that Google shipped for newer Pixel phones as an opt-in beta last March. This optional defense runs solely on Google's on-device AI, which requires sufficient system resources to limit its availability to higher-end hardware, and Google notes that it does not upload anything. Instead, opting in allows Gemini software on your phone to listen to calls from numbers not in your contacts list, flashing a "Likely scam" warning and an audible alert if it detects speech patterns typical of a fraud in progress. (I have seen it err in the other direction with a false positive: An editor asking how soon I could turn around a possible story triggered that warning on my Pixel 9 Pro.) Google says it aims to bring this feature, which it first revealed in an onstage demo at Google I/O in 2024, to phones from "more manufacturers." The company's blog post reporting this expansion of call scam detection also covers improvements to its text-scam detection. That's now available in 20+ countries and supports non-English languages such as Arabic, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. The Pixel 10 and Galaxy S26 phones getting the new AI automation feature will also gain on-device AI upgrades to discern the slow-motion manipulation of a "pig butchering" scam. Those two flagship Google and Samsung lines have one other improvement from Google: an enhanced version of its Circle to Search AI query tool that can identify not just a single element in an image or video but multiple discrete components. An advance copy of Google's announcement suggests using it to ID multiple animals in a shot. It also outlines-of course-an e-commerce application in which you could identify clothes or shoes in an image and then proceed to a virtual try-on of those items.

Gemini is getting its first agentic capabilities

Google's Gemini AI is getting one step closer to being more like an actual assistant. Starting with some Pixel 10 phones and the Samsung Galaxy S26 series, Gemini will be able to hail an Uber or put together a DoorDash order on its own. It's called task automation, and it starts with a prompt to Gemini -- something like "Get me an Uber to the Palace of Fine Arts." Gemini then launches the app in a virtual window on your device and goes through the process step-by-step. You can watch it all happen, with options to stop the automation or take control if necessary, or just let it run in the background while Gemini does its thing. The assistant will notify you if it needs your attention to choose between two options, or if something you asked it to look for is out of stock. Once your ride or grocery cart is all set, Gemini will alert you to take a look and submit the final order yourself.

Gemini will soon order your DoorDash and book your rides

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The release coincides with Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked, and naturally, these new capabilities are making their way to Samsung's new flagships too. Related I found a Gemini feature so good, I deleted a bunch of apps Your phone's home screen is about to get a lot cleaner Posts 16 By Ben Khalesi The headline feature is Gemini's new ability to handle your multistep daily tasks on Android. Meant to automate repetitive tasks, the beta feature essentially brings to life the agentic reality that we've previously reported on. Although Google didn't fully detail the feature, it did say that users will be able to "simply long-press the power button and ask Gemini to help book you a ride home or reorder your last meal on DoorDash." When prompted, Gemini will work in the background, allowing you to continue working on other tasks on your phone. According to Google, the new feature is built to prioritize safety and privacy with: Control: Automations begin with your command and stop as soon as the task is finished. Transparency: You can monitor Gemini's progress live via notifications, allowing you to view, jump in or stop the task. Access: Gemini automates the task by running the app you need in a secure, virtual window on your phone. This means Gemini can only access limited apps, and not the rest of your device. Google shared an image of the new feature in action, and it looks like it will take agentic automation as far as possible without actually spending your money. Take DoorDash, for example. Gemini will be able to navigate menus, add items, feed in your address, and more, but it will leave the final 'place order' tap to you, allowing you to go through the order and ensure that the tool hasn't made any mistakes (which it might). The feature will roll out in beta "soon." At launch, it will be limited to the Galaxy S26 series and the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL in the US and Korea. Circle to Search now has multi-object recognition Google is leveling up Circle to Search (CtS), giving the tool the ability to explore multiple objects in an image, all at once. For example, up until now, if you saw a room that you liked and wanted to replicate the aesthetic, you had to circle the lamp, then the rug, then the chair, and so on. With today's update, you're free to circle the whole image and use relevant queries like "find similar furniture and decor elements at stores near me." Similarly, let's say you see a photo of someone online, and you like their outfit, you should now be able to tap, scribble, or circle the entire outfit and have CtS identify every component and find similar items for you. Once you find the statement piece that you're looking for, Google's virtual try-on integration will now let you see what the outfit will look like one you directly from within CtS. Similar to Gemini's agentic update, CtS' enhancement is only hitting the Pixel 10 series and the Galaxy S26 series for now. Scam Detection hits the Galaxy S26 In January this year, we reported about how Google might be ready to let Scam Detection shed its Pixel exclusivity. That time is officially here now. Google is expanding Scam Detection for phone calls to more manufacturers, and it is starting with Samsung and its latest Galaxy S26 series. Scam Detection on the new flagship series is limited to the US for now, in comparison to Scam Detection on Pixel devices, which is available in the US, Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, and the UK. It's worth noting that Scam Detection will work with the Samsung Phone app, so you won't need to migrate to the Google Phone app. It will, however, be off by default. Elsewhere, Google is bringing Scam Detection for messages to more than 20 countries. "This includes support for several languages including English, Arabic, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish," suggests the tech giant. In addition to the expansion, the tech is now more intelligent too, leveraging on-device AI to detect the subtle slow-burn conversational patterns used in romance or job offer scams. The advanced messaging protection is now rolling out on the Google Pixel 10 series "and other select devices." It will also be available on the Samsung Galaxy S26 series. Related Android has a secret feature to help you identify scams and fraud -- here's how to use it A quicker way to flag scams on Android Posts 1 By Sanuj Bhatia

Android adds new Gemini AI features, smarter search, and better scam protection

Android's new AI will now do your errands while you pretend to be busy Google is preparing a major wave of Android upgrades to roll out alongside Samsung Unpacked on February 25, introducing new AI-powered abilities designed to simplify tasks, improve search, and enhance user safety. The updates, which will debut on devices like the Samsung Galaxy S26 and Google Pixel 10, mark one of Android's most significant ecosystem expansions this year. Android deepens AI integration across everyday tasks Recommended Videos The biggest upgrade comes through Gemini, Google's AI assistant, which can now handle complex, multi-step tasks entirely in the background. Available in beta on select devices in the U.S. and Korea, users can offload time-consuming activities - such as ordering a ride or building a grocery cart - to Gemini with a single request. As Gemini processes the task inside the relevant app, users can continue texting, browsing, or doing anything else on their phone without disruption. The feature is launching first with select food, grocery, and rideshare apps, but its design suggests broader expansion over time. It's a strategic step toward making Android devices more autonomous, reducing the friction of juggling multiple apps and errands. This shift matters because it hints at a future where smartphones proactively complete tasks rather than simply enabling them - an evolution that will particularly benefit users who rely heavily on phones for daily logistics. Circle To Search gets smarter, expands visual understanding Circle to Search, Google's screen-based gesture tool that allows users to draw around anything to learn more about it, is also receiving a major boost. The latest update expands its search capabilities from isolated items to entire looks and full outfits, identifying clothing, shoes, accessories, and more in a single gesture. This update makes Circle to Search substantially more useful for shopping, inspiration, and visual discovery. For users increasingly reliant on mobile search for lifestyle and style decisions, the ability to identify "the whole look" streamlines what used to be multiple searches into one. The expanded capability begins rolling out this week for Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10 devices, reinforcing Google's strategy of making visual search as essential as text-based queries. Stronger scam protection arrives for calls and texts Google is also improving safety with enhanced Scam Detection, powered by the on-device Gemini model. The feature, previously limited to Google's own apps, now arrives in the Samsung Phone app on Galaxy S26 devices in the U.S. for English-speaking users. The system listens for suspicious conversational patterns - such as urgent requests for money or impersonation tactics - and issues a warning before users can fall victim. Google Messages is also receiving improvements to its scam detection for text messages, adding another layer of protection against rising fraud attempts. These upgrades matter because scams frequently target users through calls and texts, and on-device AI allows detection to happen in real time without sending audio or data to the cloud. What comes next The company is expected to expand Gemini's background-task abilities to more apps, broaden Circle to Search support across devices, and widen scam protection to additional regions and languages. For Android users, these updates signal a platform increasingly shaped by AI - not as a novelty, but as a practical assistant woven into the fabric of daily device use.

A more intelligent Android on Samsung Galaxy S26

VP of Product Management and User Experiences, Android Platform We've been evolving Android with AI-moving it from an operating system into an intelligent system that learns and works for you. Building on our decade-long partnership with Samsung, we are launching new AI features on the Samsung Galaxy S26 series that help you tackle everyday tasks, find the perfect look and detect scams. When you're juggling a million things at once, sometimes you just need to delegate. We've all been there-wishing you could effortlessly hand off tasks like ordering a ride, organizing your dinner order or building your grocery cart. Usually, these tasks mean stopping your day to manually set everything up. Now, we have an early preview of how to get these tasks done. Starting as a beta feature in the Gemini app on select devices like the Galaxy S26 series, you can offload these tedious, multi-step tasks to Gemini with just a long press of the side button . Starting in the US and Korea, simply tell Gemini what you need, and it gets to work. When you choose to use this feature, Gemini runs in the background and your phone is still yours to use. Shoot a quick text or check your email while it navigates the task you requested. You remain in control with the option to view the live progress straight from your notifications, jump in or stop a task. From "Book a ride home" to "Reorder my last meal," Gemini can now help handle it for you. This beta feature will be initially available for select apps in the food, grocery and rideshare categories.

Google Just Announced Three New Gemini Upgrades for Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10

Google is rolling out upgrades to its Scam Detection AI, to help detect scams in real-time. To coincide with the Samsung Galaxy S26 launch, Google announced three Gemini-related upgrades for Android, coming first to both the Galaxy S26 series and the Google Pixel 10 range. In fact, one of these new features seems like a significant step forward for AI on smartphones: the ability for Gemini to handle multi-step tasks on an Android phone. The examples Google gives are booking a ride through Uber or reordering a meal on DoorDash, where the AI takes care of everything in the background, leaving you free to worry about, well, whether it's going to work. "When you're working on a repetitive daily task, it's easy to daydream about handing it off to someone else," explains Google in the announcement blog post. "Now, we're showing an early preview of what's possible." Understandably, this has a "beta" label as well as an "early preview" label attached, and it's initially only going to be available on Galaxy S26 phones and Pixel 10 phones (the Pixel 10a misses out). It'll also be limited to the U.S. and South Korea to begin with. As per Google, the process will be tightly controlled: Automations begin with your voice command and end as soon as the task is finished. Live notifications will keep you updated throughout, and you can jump in and take manual control at any time. What's more, the app is run in a "secure, virtual window" on your phone, with restricted app access. It's going to be interesting to see how well this works. If it works well, this feels like a notable moment in getting AI to actually do mobile tasks for us. It's not clear if Google needs third-party app permission for this, but for now the feature will be available "for select apps" in the food, grocery, and rideshare categories. Next, Google is upgrading Circle to Search on Android, the feature that lets you circle anything on screen and run a search from it. Circle to Search can do everything from find you a lamp online to warn you about a phishing scam. Now, Circle to Search will be able to search multiple elements on screen at once. It might be different pieces of furniture in a room, or different items of clothing in an outfit. You don't actually make the selections yourself: You just circle the relevant area (or the entire screen), and Gemini picks out the various constituent parts. "We know that sometimes you aren't just looking for a single thing on your screen -- you're looking for the whole thing," says Google. "Whether you're curating a mood board, building an entire outfit or just satisfying your multi-layered curiosity...Circle to Search is getting a whole lot more helpful." Google is also embedding the ability to virtually try on clothes from your phone in the Circle to Search flow. It's similar to the Gemini multi-step process above, with the AI taking on several sequential tasks to (in theory) be even more useful -- technically, Google calls it a query fan-out technique. Again, this will be exclusive to Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10 phones, with no word yet on this potentially expanding to other handsets. Finally, the last upgrade is more of a wider roll out than a new feature. The Scam Detection AI that Android uses to detect if you're being scammed in calls in real time is coming to the Galaxy S26 series for users in the U.S. It's already offered on multiple Pixel models in the U.S., the UK, Australia, Canada, India, and Ireland. The same technology is also currently available in Google Messages to catch text-based scams, and Google says it's "enhancing" how this works to recognize more varied scams, starting with Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10 devices. The new and improved tech will use on-device models to better spot techniques used by scammers.

Gemini Starts Ordering Your Groceries and Booking Rideshares

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. For AI to truly be useful to the masses, it's going to have to be more than a research assistant or code builder or basic task completer. It's going to have to perform difficult tasks for you that would typically require multiple steps from you or through multiples prompts in an app like Gemini. AI is going to need to be able to save you a significant amount of time from a single prompt, even if the task has several levels or steps to it that might have previously needed additional input from you. Google is about to try to take AI to a new level of task completing through Gemini on the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Galaxy S26 series. Today, Google announced that Gemini is going to attempt to handle multi-step tasks for you, where you'll be able to do things like book a ride home through a rideshare service or order food/groceries, all with a quick prompt. Gemini will work in the background to get you a car or your last meal ordered, all while you carry-on with other tasks, leaving your phone free for more. As you say something like, "Hey Google, book me a ride home," it'll then work in the background with a ridesharing app to do so. Google says this will happen through a "secure, virtual window on your phone," which should mean that Gemini has super limited access to the rest of your device as it completes the task at hand. There will be notifications along the way to let you know progress, as well as a progress view through a live notification. In some instances, you may still need to jump back in an app to complete an order once Gemini has finished all steps before that point. This feature will arrive "soon" as a beta feature with select food (DoorDash), grocery, and rideshare apps. The only devices to have support for now are the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL, and Galaxy S26 series. We'll let you know once it goes live.

New Gemini Features Arrive with the Samsung Galaxy S26 Series - Phandroid

The Samsung Galaxy S26 series finally official, and with it comes a new wave of AI features courtesy of Google Gemini. In addition to the Pixel smartphone lineup, Google also gives early access to many of its Gemini features to Samsung's flagship devices, and the S26 phones are no exception. For one, Gemini will now be able to take over your to-do list. Users can now essentially hand off tasks for Gemini, even those which usually require multiple steps to complete, such as when booking a cab or sorting out your grocery cart. Gemini will continue running in the backend while processing these tasks, allowing users to perform other tasks like checking their emails or messages. As it is a beta feature, there are some limitations -- at the moment, it will initially be available for users the United States and Korea, and will be limited for select food, rideshare, and grocery apps. Circle to Search also gets a new update, which now lets users search for everything on their display instead of a single highlighted item. A new "find the look" feature will also roll out this week, allowing users to search for specific clothing items and even try them on virtually through their phone. The feature is currently exclusive for the Samsung Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10. Meanwhile, Scam Detection for phone calls will also be available for Samsung Galaxy S26 series devices for the United States, which will use Google's on-device Gemini model; Google adds that it's also added some improvements for Scam Detection via Google Messages, which will be able to better identify potential false messages including job scams and even romance scams.

These Gemini AI Features Are Coming to the Galaxy S26 Series, Pixel Phones

Google's Scam Detection feature is coming to the Galaxy S26 series Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, Galaxy S26+, and Galaxy S26 were launched in India and other global markets during the Galaxy Unpacked February 2026 event in San Francisco, California. During the event, Google, the Mountain View-based tech giant, showcased multiple Gemini AI-powered features that are coming to select Galaxy S26 series phones. Additionally, the tech conglomerate has announced that one of the AI tools is also coming to its Pixel 10 lineup, along with the new Galaxy S series phones, which will initially be available in preview in select regions. Moreover, Google is introducing enhancements to the Circle to Search feature. Samsung Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10 Series to Offer Gemini AI-Powered Automation In a blog post, the Mountain View-based tech giant said all the new AI features that are coming to the newly launched Samsung Galaxy S26 series, which will be powered by the Gemini 3 series models. The company said that soon, users of select Galaxy S26 series phones, Google Pixel 10, and Pixel 10 Pro will be able to delegate day-to-day multi-step and tedious tasks to Gemini, "with just a long press of the side button". Google claims that users will be able to use the task automation tool in the Gemini app, while also being able to monitor Gemini's progress live via notifications. The company said that the Gemini app automates tasks by only running the apps assigned by the user in a secure and virtual window. Hence, users will be able to limit Gemini's access to other apps. For example, Galaxy S26 series and Pixel 10 lineup users will be able to ask the Gemini to book a ride home, reorder their last meal, check their email, or send a text message. The progress of each task will be displayed in the notification window. The feature will be available in preview in the US and South Korea, with a wider rollout planned for later. On top of this, Google is also introducing the enhanced AI-powered Circle to Search feature with the Samsung Galaxy S26 series. The tool will now be capable of "multi-object image recognition", allowing users to inquire about multiple things on their screen. For example, users will be able to draw a circle on a subject wearing a new outfit to get information about the shoes, the trousers, the shirt, and the cap the model is wearing. Lastly, Google is bringing its on-device scam detection feature to the Galaxy Phone app for the Galaxy S26 series. When the AI-powered tool detects a suspicious incoming call, the phone will send an alert to users, warning them about the same. The feature is already available on Pixel devices.

Gemini 3 task automation, visual search and scam alerts arrives for Galaxy S26 series and Pixel 10 devices

Google and Samsung are expanding Android's intelligence with new AI features on the Samsung Galaxy S26 series and Pixel 10 devices. Powered by the Gemini 3 series models, these updates simplify daily tasks, enhance visual search, and provide on-device security measures. Gemini can now manage multi-step tasks such as booking rides, reordering meals, or building grocery carts. Activated via a long press of the side or power button, Gemini runs in a secure virtual window in the background, allowing users to continue using their devices. Circle to Search now supports multi-object recognition, enabling users to search for multiple items in a single image. This allows analysis of entire outfits, home décor arrangements, or other complex visual scenes. Samsung Phone app on Galaxy S26 devices includes on-device Scam Detection using Gemini. Potential scam calls trigger instant audio and haptic alerts. Analysis is entirely on-device, and calls from contacts are automatically exempt, protecting user privacy.