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[^2]\n\nGoogle announced on September 2026 that its September Android Drop includes a new Gemini feature allowing users to tell the AI where they have stored important items such as passports, spare keys, and other belongings. [^3]\n\nGemini Live's Guided Vision feature, which provides voice descriptions and reframing prompts for low-light or fine-print situations, will come soon to phones running Android 9 and above. [^4]\n\nGemini will save the location of important items in Find Hub for users on Android 16 and above devices, allowing them to locate items without tracker tags. [^5]\n\nGoogle Messages will integrate Google Keep notes and lists directly within the app, allowing users to share and update grocery lists or vacation notes inside chats. [^6]\n\nGoogle introduced 'Guided Vision,' a feature combining the phone's camera with Gemini to assist blind and low-vision users with tasks like reading labels and identifying objects. [^7]\n\nGoogle introduced 'Motion Assist,' a feature that adds a bubble overlay to the screen to reduce motion sickness for users in moving vehicles. [^8]\n\nAndroid 17 is receiving Motion Assist, a feature designed to reduce motion sickness by displaying soft bubbles across the screen that track the vehicle's movement. [^9]\n\nGoogle is adding Guided Vision to Google Gemini, enabling blind and low-vision users to share their camera with Gemini Live to hear descriptions of the environment. [^10]\n\nUsers can instruct Gemini to remember item locations by voice command and attach photos for additional context, with the information appearing in the remembered items section of Find Hub. [^11]\n\nGoogle added a 'remembered items' section in Find Hub, allowing users to tell Gemini where they have stored items and attach photos for identification. 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