Google is bringing Apple's Handoff feature to Android under the name Continue On, letting users start an app on one device and pick up where they left off on another. The feature arrives with Android 17 and will initially work only between Android phones and tablets, showing ongoing activity in the tablet dock.

Continue On mirrors how Handoff works on Apple devices — you can start a Google Docs document on your phone and open the same file on your tablet from a dock suggestion. Google describes it as bidirectional, though the launch is constrained to phone-tablet pairs for now.

Android's history of cloning iOS features stretches back to its earliest days, with Steve Jobs famously calling early Android smartphones direct copies of the iPhone. But the borrowing has always gone both ways, and competition drives real progress — Apple Intelligence itself relies on Google's Gemini models.