{"id":249388,"date":"2026-05-19T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/google-may-have-surprised-us-with-more-new-android-17-features-than-expected-but-theres-still-no-sign-of-these-three\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:10:17","slug":"google-may-have-surprised-us-with-more-new-android-17-features-than-expected-but-theres-still-no-sign-of-these-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/google-may-have-surprised-us-with-more-new-android-17-features-than-expected-but-theres-still-no-sign-of-these-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Google may have surprised us with more new Android 17 features than expected, but there&#8217;s still no sign of these three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/google-may-have-surprised-us-with-more-new-android-17-features-than-expected-but-theres-still-no-sign-of-these-three\">Google may have surprised us with more new Android 17 features than expected, but there&#8217;s still no sign of these three<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/google-may-have-surprised-us-with-more-new-android-17-features-than-expected-but-theres-still-no-sign-of-these-three\">https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/google-may-have-surprised-us-with-more-new-android-17-features-than-expected-but-theres-still-no-sign-of-these-three<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 09:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.techradar.com\">www.techradar.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul id=\"elk-ec41b0d1-858a-47b2-bcd3-cdaa97304ae9\">\n<li><strong>Google has confirmed that several new Android 17 features are on the way <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Three of the most-anticipated updates did not get announced, though<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Poll reveals that Gemini Intelligence is the most exciting new feature<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"elk-42b02b8f-46b7-4626-9698-e5c92835d4e6\">Ahead of Google&#8217;s annual developer conference, aka Google I\/O, later today (May 19), the company announced a slew of new updates to its Android 17 operating system \u2014 but some rumored features were noticeably absent.<\/p>\n<p>Leading up to the Android Show, at which Google confirmed several new features and improvements like 3D emojis and &#8216;Screen Reactions&#8217;, speculation had been building around several unannounced Android 17 tools discovered in beta versions by code diggers.<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-42b02b8f-46b7-4626-9698-e5c92835d4e6-2\">From a visual redesign to a new home-screen customizer tool, there seemed to be some evidence suggesting that these new Android 17 features would be announced during the showcase.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 text-sm font-article-heading capitalize leading-5 text-white whitespace-nowrap\"><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-mobile\"\/><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-desktop\">Latest Videos From<\/span><span class=\"jwp-carousel-brand inline-flex items-center\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/media\/img\/techradar_logo_v2.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"max-h-12 w-auto\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><br \/>\n        <span class=\"\n            flex\n            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-t-[#ccc]\n            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-t-[#ccc]\n            font-article-heading pb-0 text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,1em)] uppercase sm:text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,0.875em)] font-bold\n        \"><br \/>\n            You may like<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<p>As expected, we did get a visual refresh in a roundabout way with Material 3 Expressive, which builds upon the Android 12 design update Material You with more dynamic colors and response animations. But it stopped short of the Liquid Glass-eque redesign that some leaks had hinted at.<\/p>\n<p>The rumored home-screen customizer tool also appeared, but in a different form to what was expected. While Google didn&#8217;t technically announce this, it did reveal a new Create My Widget tool, which arguably goes even further by letting users generate personalized widgets more easily.<\/p>\n<p>But what about the rumored &#8216;Motion Assist&#8217; feature (officially called Motion Cues in Android beta code), app locking, and a new gesture control tool? According to two separate polls we ran that saw close to 850 votes combined, users might not be too disappointed that these weren&#8217;t announced, as those features ranked among the least anticipated.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-most-exciting-new-android-17-features-3\">The most exciting new Android 17 features <\/h2>\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.39%;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/WKJQssxjXxdR4f2H3wA7eV.png\" alt=\"The Android Show\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/WKJQssxjXxdR4f2H3wA7eV-1200-80.png 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/WKJQssxjXxdR4f2H3wA7eV-1024-80.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/WKJQssxjXxdR4f2H3wA7eV-970-80.png 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/WKJQssxjXxdR4f2H3wA7eV-650-80.png 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/WKJQssxjXxdR4f2H3wA7eV-480-80.png 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/WKJQssxjXxdR4f2H3wA7eV-320-80.png 320w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\" loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/WKJQssxjXxdR4f2H3wA7eV.png\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/WKJQssxjXxdR4f2H3wA7eV.png\" class=\"rounded-[var(--image--border-radius,0)] inline\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caption-text\">Gemini Intelligence is the new Android 17 feature TechRadar readers say they&#8217;re most excited about&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/google-may-have-surprised-us-with-more-new-android-17-features-than-expected-but-theres-still-no-sign-of-these-three\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google may have surprised us with more new Android 17 features than expected, but there&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/kZRWp82dGq4LtnQu2jc5VF-1911-80.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-249388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249390,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249388\/revisions\/249390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}