Following the updated homescreen widget, Google Drive for Android is rolling out a Material 3 Expressive redesign. This redesign starts the new search app bar component where the hamburger button and profile picture are placed outside the field, which is thicker than before. There’s a centered “Search in Drive” hint after the “Google Drive” wordmark animates out. Meanwhile, the entire …
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Similar to the iPhone, the Google Phone and Contacts apps are introducing customizable “calling cards” that some beta users are beginning to see. Instead of just seeing a person’s profile picture at the center of the screen, you can have a fullscreen image serve as the background. A similar customization was introduced for the iPhone in iOS 17 (2023), but …
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Google has been steadily improving its Gemini AI systems throughout the year, bringing new features to the AI chatbot as well as making changes to various other services, like Google Photos. Now, a feature that the company first showed off in July, which can turn any image into a cartoon style, has finally started …
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Following the last major release nearly a month ago, Google is rolling out Android 16 QPR1 Beta 3.1 for the Pixel today. BP31.250610.009 with the July 2025 security patch is available for supported devices: Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel Tablet, Pixel Fold, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8a, Pixel …
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Pixel phones are getting a new card carousel overlay when you launch Google Wallet with a double-tap of the power button. Android 16 introduced the ability to customize the “Double press power button” gesture. Instead of launching the camera, you can set it to open Google Wallet. At the moment, this just opens the full Wallet app. At least one …
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After simplifying to three items in the bottom bar earlier this year, Google Photos is rolling out a new “Create” tab. As announced last month, Google Photos wants to provide one location to access various “creation tools.” Appearing between Collections and Ask/Search, Create has a paintbrush icon. Right now, Google is using the top slot to highlight Photo to video. …
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Google’s goal is to build a “personal, proactive, and powerful assistant,” and Gemini is accomplishing that first tentpole today with “personal context.” The Gemini app is also getting a Temporary Chat capability. At I/O, we introduced our vision for the Gemini app: to create an AI assistant that learns and truly understands you — not one that just responds to your …
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It’s been more delayed than many have expected, but Samsung is finally making progress on its Android 16 rollout, with the One UI 8 beta today expanding to a handful of 2024 Galaxy devices ahead of its stable release next month. One UI 8’s debut has been split into two places. The first beta landed on the Galaxy S25 series …
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As mentioned in the release notes for Google Play services earlier this month, Gboard is adding the ability to browse “Autofill with Google.” Once available on your device, Gboard will prompt you to “Use Autofill with Google.” This involves enabling “Autofill with Google” in the system On-screen keyboard settings. It will then appear in the grid of shortcuts and can …
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