Google Home 2.66 tweaks Wifi overview page
The latest version of the Google Home app (2.66) is rolling out as a smaller update with a pair of visual tweaks for the Preview redesign.
Apps & Updates Yesterday
The Google app on Android is overdue for a Material You redesign, but until then, it now has a comically large Search bar.
Apps & Updates March 25
The “Google Wallpapers” app launched on the Play Store in 2016 for all Android devices, and this collection recently gained a handful of new backgrounds.
Apps & Updates March 24
Google Keep for Wear OS adds watch face complications
Following a redesign of the notes feed in December, Google Keep for Wear OS now offers two watch face complications.
Apps & Updates March 23
Google’s large screen optimization push continues with the Search app adopting a navigation rail on tablets, though it’s clearly early days.
With spring starting on Monday, YouTube Music is now rolling out its 2022-3 Winter Recap with some changes compared to previous seasonal recaps.
Apps & Updates March 22
The latest version of Google Camera brings faster Night Sight to the Pixel 6/Pro and reveals work on the Pixel 8 Pro. Google Camera 8.8 also tweaks the zoom UI on the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro.
In recent days, Google TV has been showing a “Personalized ads update” on televisions and streaming devices.
Following last month’s announcement, Google Translate for iPhone has received a Material You redesign.
The latest addition to YouTube Music is a carousel in the Home feed that surfaces “Covers and remixes” of songs you’ve listened to.
Google Search iOS app gets simplified bottom bar, downgrades Collections
Google has rolled out a number of navigation-related tweaks to the Search app on iOS that aim to simplify the app, while deemphasizing Collections.
Apps & Updates March 21
Google Docs rolling out more customizable table of contents
Following its big Material You redesign, Google Docs is adding more customization options for tables of contents, as well as better formatting options for all other tables.
In recent days, Chrome has added your past search queries to the New Tab Page on Android so that they appear alongside frequently visited sites.
Apps & Updates March 18
Faster Night Sight for the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro is rolling out with version 8.8 of Google Camera.
Apps & Updates March 17
YouTube Music on Android can now “automatically download recently played songs” with a new setting.
Compared to Maps for Android and iOS, Google makes relatively few visual updates to the Maps website. Google Maps is now testing a sidebar on the web that provides convenient access to recently viewed places.
Google Messages adds contact photos to conversation threads
After bigger changes to “RCS” branding and read receipt icons in recent weeks, Google Messages for Android is adding a contact’s profile photo to the top of conversations.
As we’ve been expecting, the latest Google app to get a tablet redesign is Contacts for Android.
Apps & Updates March 16
Apps & Updates March 15
After testing in October, Google Messages looks to be widely rolling out a redesign of read receipts with icons replacing words (sent, delivered, and read).
Apps & Updates March 14
As teased last year, YouTube TV today announced “Multiview” to let you watch up to 4 games simultaneously.
Google Health today hosted its annual The Checkup Up event with announcements spanning Search, Fitbit Health Metrics, AI, and developer tools.
Apps & Updates March 11
The Google Home app Public Preview is set to get a number of features before it more widely launches. The ability to reorder devices in Google Home’s Favorites tab is now starting to roll out for those in the beta program.
Apps & Updates March 9
Pocket Casts offered a watch client back in the Android Wear era and is now actively working on a Wear OS app.
Following Messages, Google TV, and Google Search, the Play Store is the latest app to get a Material You Google Account switcher.
Google announced a “Single note” widget at the end of last month for Keep on Android, and it’s now widely rolling out.
Apps & Updates March 8
In 2015, Google introduced a Cleanup Tool designed to find and delete unwanted software (UwS) that might impact your browsing experience. Google is now removing the Chrome Cleanup Tool.
The last time Google added favicons to desktop Search in early 2020 there was an uproar, but the company is now rolling out a new design.
After adding Magic Eraser last month, Google One is significantly expanding the availability of its VPN and introducing dark web monitoring for stolen information.
In addition to Material 3 actively rolling out to Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides, Google Trends is now the latest first-party website to get a redesign.
Apps & Updates March 4
Following last week’s announcement, Magic Eraser is now available on all Pixel phones and for any Google One subscriber, including those on iOS.
Apps & Updates March 3
The YouTube Music team opened and then quickly closed applications for a “Listening Room” beta program in January and provided a brief update today.
Google is rolling out an update to the app responsible for Pixel Watch Faces. So far, there aren’t any major changes, with the count remaining at 19, but the Google Assistant complication does get a color tweak.
Apps & Updates March 2
Announced last month as a quick way to draw on and highlight PDFs, Google Drive’s new annotation tools on Android are now rolling out.
As we wait for the Pixel Tablet, Google continues to optimize its first-party apps for large screens. A byproduct of that work is a new Google Keep screenshot from the Pixel Tablet today.
Last year, Google made it so that Play app ratings are generated based on form factor. You can now rate and review apps for all form factors from the online Play Store.
Back in November, Google started testing a vertical photo gallery in Messages for Android, and the scrolling picker is now seeing wider availability.
Apps & Updates March 1
Back in September, the Google Phone app started testing a new calling screen, and the bottom sheet redesign is now seeing wider availability.
Google added “Highlights” to Contacts in December that made the Android app decidedly more than just a list of people. That Google Contacts feed now has a “For you” section that shows upcoming birthdays.
Apps & Updates February 28
After widely rolling out an Energy Saver mode, Google has made four optimizations to Chrome for Mac that allows the browser to match the battery life you get when using Safari.
Apps & Updates February 27
Android 13’s most obvious UI change is a redesign of the lockscreen and notification shade media player. However, not all music, podcasts, and audio apps have been updated to support them yet, and here’s our running list of what controls have been modernized.
Google Tasks is set to replace Assistant reminders next month. Ahead of that, Google has brought online a website that lets you directly access Google Tasks.
Following the dual-pane layout optimized for Android tablets (and Chromebooks) in November, Google Keep is getting a single note widget and a pair of Wear OS 3 complications.
Google is rolling out a handful of new accessibilities feature for Android (Chrome zoom) and Wear OS 3 (sound and display modes) as part of a modest Spring feature frop.
Apps & Updates February 24
After a slew of tablet optimizations for Workspace and other Google apps, Gmail for Android is now getting a two-pane view on foldables.
