Google’s raft of new features coming to Android this fall contains some attention-grabbing new accessibility options. There are new facial gesture controls designed for folks with motor impairments, in addition to a brand new handwriting recognition function for Lookout, a Google app that makes use of a telephone’s digicam to assist folks with low imaginative and prescient or blindness. There are additionally enhancements coming for Google Assistant, Digital Wellbeing, Nearby Share, and Google’s Android keyboard.

There are two elements to Android’s facial gesture controls. Camera Switches (which has beforehand been noticed in Android 12’s beta) sits inside Android’s current Accessibility Suite and allows you to use gestures like opening your mouth or elevating your eyebrows to activate numerous instructions. The second half is Project Activate, a standalone app that’s designed to assist folks talk. Here, facial gestures will be set to set off actions like taking part in audio or sending a textual content message.

Meanwhile, Google says Lookout’s handwriting recognition will be capable of learn out Latin-based languages and is accessible from its Documents mode. Euro and Indian Rupees are additionally being added to the app’s Currency mode.

Beyond accessibility, Gboard can be seeing enhancements. Most attention-grabbing is that on all units working Android 11 and up, Google’s Android keyboard will be capable of use Smart Compose to complete sentences, just like what’s already attainable in particular providers like Google Docs and Gmail. This function has beforehand been unique to Pixel telephones. Copying and pasting can be being up to date to robotically separate out separate contact data and particulars like telephone numbers and e-mail addresses after they’re copied in a single chunk of textual content. Finally, Gboard will even proactively counsel sharing a screenshot in case you instantly change to a messaging app after taking one.

The “Heads Up” Digital Wellbeing function, which reminds folks to cease wanting down at their telephones whereas they’re strolling, is increasing from simply Pixels to all Android telephones, whereas asking Google Assistant to “open my reminders” now provides a one-stop-shop for managing all reminders added to the voice assistant. Nearby Share can be being up to date to supply new visibility settings, letting you management who can see your gadget and ship information. It’s an actual seize bag of options that ought to supply one thing for everybody.

Google isn’t providing actual launch dates for any of those options, and there’s no point out of whether or not any of them might be unique to the upcoming Android 12. So count on most of them to step by step roll out over the course of this fall, which is usually thought of to run till the beginning of December.