Android is starting to guess what you’ll want to do next

• The Verge reports that Google is rolling out Contextual suggestions for Android — AI-powered prompts that recommend actions based on a user’s habits.
• The examples are easy to picture: when you arrive at the gym, your music app can suggest the playlist you usually play there. If you often cast sports games to the living room TV on Saturdays, your phone can suggest casting at the right time.
• Google’s Android support page says the feature uses activity and location data, but that data stays on the device, is not shared with Google, and is used only for on-device learning.
• 9to5Google spotted the setting on Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10a devices running Android 16 with Google Play services version 26.18. It has not appeared on older Pixels or Android 17 Beta builds yet.

Here is how Contextual suggestions looks in 9to5Google's screenshots.

• Users can turn off Contextual suggestions, disable location use for recommendations, or delete stored data. Google says the data is automatically deleted after 60 days.
• The feature feels like a quieter version of Pixel 10’s Magic Cue: not a chatbot, but a prediction layer across the phone. Android watches repeated routines and tries to put the next action in front of you at the right moment.