Android (operating system)

Voice Access, Google's free hands-free control app The Android answer to Apple's Voice Control, and the reason nobody needs to switch phones to go hands-free. Voice Access opens apps, moves around the screen and edits text by spoken command, which covers most of what a thumb does all day. On Android 13 and newer it can be set up to recognize speech offline, worth doing on day one so control does not vanish with the cell signal. Because Android hardware varies so much, test it on the actual handset before relying on it: a cheap phone with a weak microphone makes the software look worse than it is.