It’s nearly time for the official launch of Android 12, however Google isn’t saving each function for the general public launch. Today the corporate introduced a handful of recent skills coming quickly to Android, Google TV, the Assistant, and Gboard, together with some that have been beforehand unique to Google’s personal Pixel lineup.

The Pixel options rolling out quickly to Android telephones embrace the Heads Up means in Digital Wellbeing, which alerts you if it detects you’re strolling and utilizing your telephone. And whether you’re utilizing a OnePlus smartphone or a Samsung machine, you’ll have entry to the password-protected Locked Folder out there in Google Photos.

Gboard customers throughout all gadgets will get extra copy-and-paste capabilities, together with a number of that have been just for the Pixel. You can already entry photos and hyperlinks within the Clipboard, and Gboard will finally begin to extract telephone numbers, electronic mail addresses, and hyperlinks into separate gadgets as you copy them. Gboard may even retailer latest screenshots within the clipboard, which was a function introduced at Google I/O earlier this 12 months. And all variations of Gboard will get the Pixel’s Smart Compose function for each machine working Android 11 and up.

Google right now can be introducing new accessibility features to make Android extra usable to people with bodily impairments. Camera Switches is a Switch Access function that enables individuals to make use of their telephone’s front-facing digital camera to navigate with eye actions. The function joins one other, Project Activate, which helps you to program facial gestures and eye actions to set off shortcuts for duties like sending prewritten textual content responses. Both of those accessibility options have been discovered previously floating round within the Android 12 beta however are formally rolling out extra broadly.

The beta additionally gave us a glimpse on the various Nearby Share permissions, now out there to everybody else. Nearby Share helps you to select to ship images or hyperlinks to everybody with an Android telephone inside your neighborhood, choose contacts, or nobody in any respect. I’d advise you to decide on the latter two choices for those who don’t need any random pics popping up in your telephone—in spite of everything, we’ve seen what’s occurred to Apple’s AirDrop customers previously.

Google TV customers are getting a useful little function that may make it simpler to search out one thing to observe with out in search of the distant. Google has constructed distant management options instantly into Android, contained in the Google TV app. Tright here’s additionally a Quick Tile, so you may simply pull down your notification shade to enter distant management mode. The means had been found by 9to5Google just some days in the past.

If you’ve ever wished to carry up your reminders in your sensible show just a little extra simply, Google added a Reminders hub to the Assistant. You can pull it up by saying, “Open my reminders,” and the Assistant will current you with the listing of issues you reminded your self to do. Eventually, the Assistant will begin to supply solutions for reminders primarily based in your exercise.

There are additionally some adjustments coming to Android Auto, which I wrote about in additional depth right here.

The accessibility options will probably be rolling out this week, with Google’s different Android options touchdown within the coming weeks.