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Google Messages and Phone by Google have reached major milestones on the Play Store.

Back in September, Google previewed Play Games Sidekick. This experience is now beginning to roll out, with Google sharing a number of Android updates at the Game Developers Conference today. 

On the back of expansive recent updates, NotebookLM appears to be testing the option to add banner images for further customization.

With the web now dominated by short-form videos, captions have stopped just being an accessibility tool, becoming essential to allow for users to quickly watch content on mute. Today, Google Vids is delivering a big upgrade to its built-in automated captions tool.

In what could be a bug or behavior change, the Google Play Store is not showing available updates for system-level apps if you have automatic updates disabled.

Instead of relying on algorithms to recommend news stories, Google Search lets you set “preferred sources” so the stories you see come from the news outlets you actually like.

Android 16 QPR3 launched today for Google Pixel devices, bringing some interesting tweaks to round out the later stages of this software build. The newest update brings a smooth new folder animation to the forefront, along with a couple of customization changes for the home screen.

It’s not often you see major companies reverting unpopular changes to their apps, but that’s exactly what Google’s doing to its cropping tools within Photos’ built-in editor.

High-quality wallpapers sourced from MKBHD were, for a time, available through a proprietary app called “Panels.” The Panels app is now being removed from the Google Play Store and App Store, as Marques Brownlee cites sustainability issues.

Out of nowhere, Google brought cross-platform AirDrop support to the Pixel 10 this week, allowing the company’s latest lineup of flagships to safely and securely send photos, files, and more to the iPhone. While it initially seemed like this was a rogue move made by Google to coerce Apple into another boundary-breaking decision, it might actually be part of the repercussions that also led to USB-C on iPhone and the adoption of RCS.

As has become tradition, Google Play has returned to mark the end of another year with its roundup of the best Android apps and games from 2025.

These days, there’s a pretty good chance whatever movie or TV show you’re looking for is available for streaming — the question is, which streaming app is it actually on? Google is attempting to make your Friday night process of finding something to watch a little easier with an upgrade to search in the Play Store.

Given the nature of cloud storage for Google Workspace accounts, data migration is a massive undertaking when there are no official tools to get the job done. The new migration feature is designed to give Dropbox users an easy way to transfer users and files to Google Drive in one fell swoop.

Google has launched a new “excessive partial wake locks” metric for Android app developers that will result in Play Store warnings for end users.

Set Calling Cards on Android are wonderful for personalized contacts, but what may be better is setting your own Calling Card that shows up on other devices when you call others. That might be in the works, according to one insight report.

We’re due for some big changes coming to the Play Store after the results of the Google-Epic lawsuit, but an additional extension could give the company the final change to overturn the case it’s been looking for.

The Oura app was already one of the easiest health tracking apps to use, and the company says that its getting an overhaul to make it even better with new features.

As filters in video call platforms go, Google Meet is taking a more subtle and convenient approach with AI-powered makeup options.

Besides other incoming updates, the Google Play Store now lets you directly buy digital gift cards on Android.

The fullscreen Google Account switcher started rolling out earlier this year, and the menu redesign is now coming to the remaining first-party apps.

Right on time for Amazon’s Prime Day, the company has released an app update that removes every hurdle from buying more with a new “add to delivery” button.

Snapchat has made plenty of attempts to monetize its app over the past few years, and with its latest effort, it’s placing a cap on the amount of photos and videos users can save in the cloud for free. Unlimited Memories backups are going away nearly a decade after their introduction, and it’s going to cost Snapchat power users.

After subtly updating the help page on Call Recording, Google seems to be gearing up to bring the full recording to some Pixel devices in more regions.