Galaxy AI 2.0: The Best AI Features in the Z Flip and Fold 6, Ring, and Watch

Samsung's Galaxy AI is spreading. The Google-powered AI features are landing in Samsung's Galazy Z Flip 6 and Z Fold 6 phones, its Galaxy Watch 7 and Watch Ultra smartwatches, and even the Galaxy Ring. The goal is to make select tasks easier and help generate new health insights.

Here are the latest Galaxy AI features.

Targeting Productivity

First and foremost, the Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6 gain access to Google Gemini. Gemini is preinstalled and built into the assistant on both devices. Swiping the corner of the screen calls up the Gemini overlay, which can assist with tasks such as learning, planning, and writing. It is also buried within some Google apps, allowing Fold and Flip owners to search for and book travel, discover detailed information, and call up artist details when watching YouTube videos with simple voice prompts. The Gemini overlay can even work in a multitasking window in split-screen mode.

The Fold, in particular, embeds many AI functions meant to speed up menial tasks. For example, Note Assist can automatically format notes, provide summaries, and translate languages. It can pull text and graphs from PDF files and insert them (and images) into notes. Composer is built into the Samsung Keyboard. You can use it to see suggested text responses to incoming messages or generate new emails that can draw context from other messages in the chain. It offers several different tones, such as professional or laid-back.

Smart Select works with the S Pen stylus to help better select text passages, and a new hover function lets you see the selections before they are made.

Samsung and Google have boosted the capabilities of its Interpreter and Live Translate features. The new conversation mode, for example, lets two people speak back and forth, with the conversations appearing in text on the inner and outer screens simultaneously. One-way translation lets students capture notes that are automatically translated.

The Live Translate function can now translate phone calls in real time, with the text appearing on the screen. This tool can also be added to third-party calling apps, expanding its availability. Live Translate is now available in 16 languages and will reach 20 languages by the end of the year.

AI for Fun

Galaxy AI isn't all work and no play. Samsung aimed some features at creators and creativity. For example, there's the Sketch to Image tool. You can draw a simple sketch, and the Generative AI will create up to four fully realized and colored versions of the sketch in different styles, such as anime. This works incredibly quickly.

The Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6 can use the new ProVisual Engine built into the processor's NPU. It powers Photo Assist and Portrait Studio tools that help you better frame shots, get cleaner results, and even apply portrait styles such as 3D cartoon or watercolor. The Instant Slo-Mo works as it does on the Galaxy S24 Ultra, using AI to fill in missing frames so you can create slow-motion videos even when you recorded the video at normal speed.

Last, let's not forget Google's Circle to Search. The easy-to-use search tool is available to both phones and can help you perform image-based searches for what's on your screen.

Bringing AI to Wearables and Hearables

Samsung's latest smartwatches and even the Galaxy Ring also take advantage of Galaxy AI. The Galaxy Watch 7 and Galaxy Watch Ultra are the first to run Wear OS 5. One of the biggest improvements covers tracking health.

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For example, Samsung created a new advanced AI algorithm for sleep analysis. The Watches are certified to check for signs of sleep apnea as well as analyze your heart rate to warn against irregular rhythms or atrial fibrillation.

The Galaxy Ring also uses the AI-based sleep analysis algorithm to develop a Sleep Score and snoring analysis. It can track movement during sleep, sleep latency, and heart and respiratory rates to analyze sleep quality. Temperature tracking also helps those who menstruate track their cycles.

Samsung's wholly redesigned Galaxy Buds 3 and Buds 3 Pro include their own AI algorithms to help listen to the outside world and react to environmental changes in real time to produce the best possible sound.

Where Will AI Appear Next?

As the developer of Android, Google is uniquely positioned to continue building AI into its mobile operating system. The company has its own event scheduled for August 13, where it is expected to show off the Pixel 9 phone and other products. Surely, AI will be embedded deeply within.

Apple, too, has more AI to show us. Though it scratched the surface with some AI announcements for iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, it has yet to launch its iPhone 16 lineup, which will almost certainly include some AI features.