Google has begun rolling out Motion Assist, a feature designed to reduce motion sickness while using a phone in a moving vehicle, though so far it is only appearing on Pixel devices running Android 17. Motion sickness occurs when there is a mismatch between what the inner ear senses and what the eyes see, and Motion Assist aims to resolve this by giving the eyes visual motion cues that match the body's movement, mirroring a similar feature Apple introduced on the iPhone in 2024 called Motion Cues.

The feature overlays small dots around the edges of the screen that shift in response to data from the phone's accelerometer and gyroscope, moving down the screen when a vehicle accelerates forward or sideways when turning, mimicking how the outside world would appear if the user weren't staring at their screen. It can be switched on manually via a quick settings tile or set to activate automatically when the phone detects it is in a moving vehicle, with options to adjust the dots' shape, size, colour and opacity; it is delivered via a staged Play Services update rather than a separate app, and Google has not yet confirmed whether it will remain exclusive to Pixel phones or Android 17.