Samsung copied the Pixel’s finest characteristic

At this level, Samsung Galaxy AI is quite mature and produces much better outcomes than some other AI supplied by smartphone manufacturers, together with Apple’s AI.

With the Galaxy S26 collection, Samsung launched the One UI 8.5 replace, which introduced a brand new characteristic referred to as Now Nudge. It watches your display and quietly suggests the following motion earlier than you even ask — similar to Google’s Pixel Magic Cue —however which one is best, and is Now Nudge value utilizing?

Now Nudge does not depart you digging

It lives in your keyboard toolbar

Think of Now Nudge as Samsung’s reply to an issue each cellphone proprietor is aware of too nicely. I’m speaking about whenever you get a textual content asking for a photograph, an deal with, or a gathering time, and you find yourself opening and scouting three totally different apps to seek out it. With Now Nudge, as an alternative of searching round, it reads what’s in your display and suggests it proper above your keyboard.

The better part is that Now Nudge lives inside the Samsung Keyboard toolbar. It seems on the identical strip the place predictive textual content normally reveals up. Samsung divided Now Nudge’s options into two elements. One helps you get issues completed, and the opposite helps you recall stuff you’ve already seen.

So, for example, if somebody texts you asking for final journey’s images from the seashore, Now Nudge can pull matching photographs out of your Gallery. If your good friend mentions a date and time in a chat, Now Nudge will supply to avoid wasting that as a calendar occasion on the spot. No have to open the Calendar and add an occasion manually. It will even flag scheduling conflicts by quietly checking your calendar within the background when a gathering invite lands in your messages.

Turning it on can be not tough. Open Settings in your Galaxy cellphone, faucet Galaxy AI, and flip the toggle on for Now Nudge. Additionally, if you wish to autofill your identify, electronic mail, or cellphone quantity in varieties, you possibly can activate Personal Data Intelligence from that very same menu and add your particulars below Manage Personal Data.

Magic Cue is the unique blueprint

But there are loads of variations between Now Nudge and Magic Cue

Google shipped Magic Cue on the Pixel 10 collection, roughly a 12 months earlier than Samsung’s model confirmed up with One UI 8.5. The primary premise is identical: your cellphone ought to join the dots throughout your apps so you do not have to. Magic Cue depends on the Tensor G5 chip and an on-device Gemini Nano mannequin to learn context out of your emails, calendar, screenshots, and messages, then serve you with what you want.

So, as an instance you are attempting to alter a seat in your upcoming flight mid-call. Magic Cue can pull your flight affirmation straight from the e-mail you bought in Gmail and present it proper on the decision display. This eliminates the necessity to undergo the app, discover that precise electronic mail, and put somebody on maintain. It additionally feeds Daily Hub, which is Google’s model of a lock-screen briefing, and reveals related reminders pulled out of your different Google apps.

Some of the most important variations are listed under:

• Now Nudge solutions present up in your keyboard toolbar. This implies that they’re tied to no matter app you are actively typing in. On the opposite hand, Magic Cue seems inside particular person apps, whether or not it is the Phone app throughout a name, the Photos app whenever you open it, or Daily Hub in your lock display.
• Samsung asks you so as to add your private particulars by means of a single Personal Data Intelligence hub, whereas Google’s Magic Cue handles every part within the background and pulls information out of your apps. You don’t get Now Nudge’s granular controls with Magic Cue for private info.
• Magic Cue is just accessible on the Pixel 10 collection or later. However, whereas Now Nudge launched with the Galaxy S26 collection, it is going to attain extra gadgets with the One UI 9 replace, which is rolling out in the US at the time of writing.

Samsung’s Now Nudge does the identical. But in real-life situations, the variations present up.

Should you flip it on?

It does not matter that Google arrived with this characteristic first. For Samsung customers, anyway, Now Nudge is the choice, and it really works nicely. If you’re deep within the Samsung ecosystem and use all its first-party apps, Now Nudge is an clever good friend that lives in your cellphone.

It will not change how you utilize your cellphone, however it is going to prevent from the small annoyance of digging by means of apps mid-conversation. So I would not name it a duplicate, however a pattern Samsung adopted and executed nicely for Galaxy cellphone customers.