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Dec 02, 2025
The latest Android 16 release brings AI-powered notification tools, more advanced customization and stronger parental controls.
Android 16 is here with smarter features and more frequent releases. You now have AI-powered notification summaries, a notification organizer, and more ways to personalize your phone. Parents can manage controls directly on their child’s device.
Android 16 has some cool new updates. It helps you stay organized by sorting your notifications. You can also make your phone look more like you with custom icons and dark mode. Parents can now easily control their kids’ screen time right on the phone.
With today’s Android 16 release updates, your device is getting smarter, more personal and easier to manage.
This release also marks a new chapter for how Android updates work, moving from a single, yearly operating system update to more frequent releases. This means you get the latest features as soon as they’re ready.
Here’s a look at what’s new:
Notifications are essential, but they can also be overwhelming. We’re introducing two intelligent features to help you cut through the clutter and stay focused.
Your phone should reflect your own unique aesthetic. This update brings more ways to customize your experience and make your device truly yours.
We’re always working to make it easier for parents to help their children and teens build healthy digital habits. With the new Parental Controls 1 option within Android Settings, families now have a single, easy-to-access place for built-in device controls and Google Family Link.
Protected by an easy-to-set PIN, these on-device controls can be used to:
Parental Controls in Settings also provides a direct path to easily set up Google Family Link 2 , which offers more capabilities, like School Time, app purchase approvals, location alerts and more in the Family Link app on a parent’s phone.
This is just a small sample of what’s new today. These updates are starting to roll out with Android 16 on eligible Pixel devices today.
“Parental Controls” in settings is currently available on Pixel phones and tablets on Android 16+.
Users can run Google Family Link on Android devices running versions 5.0 (Lollipop) and higher, and iPhones running iOS 11 and higher – Family Link requires a supervised Google Account for kids under 13 or the applicable age in your country.
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