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Here’s when Android’s Heads Up safety tool will join Google’s graveyard

TL;DR We recently learned that Digital Wellbeing was sunsetting the Heads Up pedestrian safety feature, and we now know when that will happen.

Google could soon alert users to this tool’s impending death with a prominent banner on the Heads Up page.

Separately, we’ve spotted code mentioning a new Gemini-based chat to help you navigate your Digital Wellbeing settings and get the most out of them.

Google introduced Heads Up for Android phones in 2021 as a safety feature that warns you to stay aware of your surroundings while walking and using your phone. We discovered in our recent APK teardown that this pedestrian safety tool was being phased out , though we didn’t know when. We now have an answer, courtesy of code in the latest version of Digital Wellbeing.

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