Android 17 is getting its own version of Apple’s Handoff

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FollowSee All GoogleAndroid 17 is getting its own version of Apple’s Handoff‘Continue On’ lets you start tasks on your phone and pick them up elsewhere. ‘Continue On’ lets you start tasks on your phone and pick them up elsewhere. by Dominic Preston Dominic PrestonNews EditorPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.

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FollowSee All by Dominic PrestonMay 20, 2026, 11:07 AM UTC At launch, Continue On will only allow you to move tasks from a phone to a tablet. Image: GooglePart OfGoogle I/O 2026: All the news and announcementssee all updates Dominic Preston Dominic PrestonPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. FollowSee All by Dominic Preston is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism.

He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Google is adding a new Android feature that resembles Apple’s Handoff, allowing you to start a task on your Android phone and continue it right where you left off from a compatible tablet. “Continue On” is designed to eventually be bidirectional, but Google says that at launch it will only support tasks moving from a smartphone to a tablet.

Android tablet users will see the Continue On icon in the dock suggesting the most recently used app from their phone, assuming it’s also installed on the tablet. It should allow Android users to directly open documents they were working on, or jump straight into the email they just had open. In some circumstances, it can open up the tablet’s browser to the best page to continue a task on the web instead.

Industry Implications

RelatedThe 13 biggest announcements at Google I/O 2026The 9 biggest new features in Android 17Google says that Continue On will be available to test in Android 17’s RC1 build, its first release candidate version, though hasn’t yet detailed when that will arrive. It also didn’t say when tablet-to-mobile handoffs will be supported. Together with last week’s announcement of Android-powered Googlebook laptops, it opens the door to wider Android interoperability that could finally match Apple’s impressive inter-device coordination.

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This advance offers important signals about the future of the sector, and the tech world is watching closely.