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A 2026 benchmark ran four mobile AI agents through 65 real Android tasks. The best one finished 43%. Here is why the reliability gap exists, what separates the agents that work from the ones that don't, and how to ship anyway.
Android 17's Advanced Protection Mode now revokes the AccessibilityService permission from any app that isn't a genuine assistive tool. For a generation of automation apps, that permission was the whole engine. Here is what changed, why, and how to build phone control that survives it.
At MWC 2026 the smartphone "became an AI agent", and agentic systems began beating human baselines on Android benchmarks. What actually changed in mobile automation this year — and what it means for teams.
