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I’ve had the Pixel 10 Pro for about two months now, and while most of the phone has been outstanding, its new Magic Cue feature has been anything but. Magic Cue is supposed to surface relevant info in phone calls, text messages, and more right when you need it. In theory, it’s a really good idea.
In practice, however, Magic Cue has missed the mark. Between not working at all to showing me incorrect information, I wasn’t impressed with Magic Cue in my Pixel 10 Pro review, and I’ve continued to be unimpressed with it as we creep into November.
But that might be changing. After over two months with the Pixel 10 Pro, Magic Cue finally did something useful.
If you have a Pixel 10, how have you been liking Magic Cue? 115 votes I like it a lot! It's been really helpful. 7 % It's been OK, but it hasn't worked very often. 19 % The suggestions have been bad/inaccurate. 3 % I haven't noticed it doing anything. 71 %
This is what I’m talking about
When I opened up the Pixel Weather app over the weekend, I noticed a new entry on the locations page. In between my current and saved locations was a Magic Cue suggestion for a “recommended location based on your plans.”
That recommended location is for the hotel where my partner and I are staying during an upcoming trip to Italy. Magic Cue noticed the hotel stay from a Google Calendar entry I created, saw it was a week away, and automatically added the hotel’s location to Pixel Weather.
But that wasn’t all! After I opened the weather page for our hotel, the AI Weather Report showed another Magic Cue suggestion with a forecast summary for the days we’re staying in Milan. This included a short paragraph summarizing the weather for the two days we’re in the city, along with some travel-related suggestions for our time there — such as packing a waterproof phone case and a small umbrella for the rainy weather.
To play devil’s advocate for a minute, could I have manually added Milan to the Pixel Weather app? Yes, and I did a few days ago. Could you argue that it’s common sense to pack an umbrella and a microfiber towel on a trip where you expect rainy weather? Sure.
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