How Android Halo shows you what your AI agent is doing

You ask an AI agent to handle a task for you, close the app, and carry on with your day. But then you start wondering: Is it still working? Did it finish? Does it need something from me? Or did it get stuck somewhere along the way?
This is one of the problems Google is trying to solve with Android Halo, a new interface designed to show users what their AI agents are doing without forcing them to stop whatever else they are doing on their phones.
Google previewed Android Halo in May 2026 as part of its push to make Android more useful in an increasingly agentic AI era. Instead of keeping an agent’s activity hidden inside an app, Halo brings updates to the top of the phone screen, sho...