Google’s Pixel 10 family has a bunch of exclusive software features, and one of them is called Magic Cue. Now a new report says Google is bringing this functionality to all Android smartphones as Contextual Suggestions.
Like the name implies, this means you’ll get “helpful suggestions from your apps and services”, which are based on your routine activities and locations. The examples Google gives in the feature’s description are: “your music app might suggest a playlist at the gym that you often listen to during your evening workout” and “if you often cast sports games to your living room TV on Saturdays, your device can suggest casting at the right time”.
Google’s upcoming Contextual Suggestions
As you can see from the screenshots above, these suggestions work in an encrypted space on your phone, and the data used for them is never shared with the apps or Google, and never leaves your device (unless you share this data for some other purpose). You can delete this data anytime you want, and by default it’s automatically deleted after 60 days.
The way all of this works is that device activity and location data are stored in the encrypted space we talked about earlier, and in that space, AI learns from the data and makes predictions about what might be helpful. Apps and services can’t see the data the AI is using, but can use the predictions to offer you timely suggestions.
Contextual Suggestions is showing up for some users as part of the latest beta of the Google Play Services app, but it’s not live for all of those in that beta program, so it’s clearly still a limited test. When you get it, you’ll find it in Settings > Google (or Google services) > All services > Others.
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