Ahead of the holiday shopping season, Gmail is adding package tracking and delivery information in a glanceable manner.
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With Health Connect, Google Fit shows Nest Hub Sleep Sensing next to Fitbit heart rate data
Over the last few days, Fitbit integration with Heart Connect has gone live. One helpful aspect of Heart Connect sync combines Nest Hub Sleep Sensing data with your Fitbit heart rate in Google Fit.
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Google Lens will only become more important going forward, and one sign of that is its addition to the google.com homepage today.
Expand Expanding ClosePixel Recorder 4.0 rolling out: Playback speed controls and more precise sharing
Google released the last update to the Pixel’s Recorder app with Android 13 QPR1 Beta. The Pixel 7 and 7 Pro will launch with Recorder 4.0 with some nice usability tweaks, but a bigger multi-speaker support upgrade is coming later.
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As 2022 starts winding down, Google has now opened Users’ Choice voting on the Play Store for the best new Android app and game.
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Google Play Store not showing ‘Recently updated’ Android apps again [U]
Google recently addressed an issue where version numbers disappeared from the Play Store, and a similar problem in that vein has now appeared involving the “Recently updated” list.
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Google Drive gets improved file access expiration functionality
For Google Workspace customers, Drive lets you set an expiration date when sharing files, and the capability is now picking up a pair of usability enhancements.
Expand Expanding CloseFitbit for Android rolls out Health Connect support [Update: Active]
Following Samsung and Google Fit, Fitbit now supports Health Connect with version 3.69 widely rolling out this morning.
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Yes, the Google Play Store’s Update button got bigger
In recent weeks, the Play Store has picked up a handful of new multi-device features, and more are coming. A much smaller Google Play Store tweak sees the Update button get bigger.
Expand Expanding CloseNew Google Messages icon comes to the web with animated splash screen
It’s been just over a week since Google announced new icons for its communications apps on Android. The new Google Messages icon is now available on the web with a rather nice animated splash screen.
Expand Expanding CloseGoogle One for Android gets slick homescreen redesign
We’ve been waiting for a tablet redesign of Google One since I/O in May, but until then the Android app is getting a new homescreen that lets you see more details about your subscription at a glance.
Expand Expanding CloseGoogle Camera 8.6: Android 13, expanded Pixel 6 Speech enhancement [U: New update]
Google is rolling out an update to the Pixel Camera app a month after the last release, with version 8.6 introducing a handful of Material You tweaks and Speech enhancement for the rear Pixel 6 lens.
Expand Expanding CloseHow the new, darker YouTube look compares to the old design [Gallery]
Announced on Monday, YouTube’s new, darker design is actively rolling out. How YouTube is laid out doesn’t fundamentally change, but taken together, these tweaks make for a more drastic upgrade than what was telegraphed earlier in the week.
Expand Expanding CloseNew Google Meet cameras run Android instead of ChromeOS, Zoom Rooms interop coming
Following Cloud Next 2022 earlier this month, Google Meet is getting two more announcements focused on enterprise video calling hardware, including how these dedicated cameras will run Android.
Expand Expanding CloseYouTube for Android adds a navigation drawer in latest Explore revamp
While Google apps have generally removed the navigation drawer in recent years, some have brought them back with YouTube for Android and iOS being the latest example of that.
Expand Expanding ClosePocket Casts adds support for the Android 13 media player [U]
The biggest third-party apps have yet to introduce support for the Android 13 media player, with Pocket Casts being a significant addition today if you’re on the beta program.
Expand Expanding CloseHere’s dual pane Google Keep on Chromebooks, but it’s hard to find on tablets & foldables
At the start of last month, Google announced that Keep was getting a dual-pane view on large-screen devices. We’ve now encountered it on a Chromebook, but an annoying limitation restricts availability on Android foldables and tablets.
Expand Expanding CloseGoogle Home web app starts rolling out to view live Nest feeds, older cameras supported
As part of announcing the rebuilt Home app, Google reiterated that the website to view camera feeds was coming “in a few weeks.” “Google Home for web” is now rolling out this week and should be widely available by the next one.
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After rolling out a new icon and previewing several upcoming features last week, Google Messages is now testing new delivered and read status indicators.
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YouTube is letting you vote on feature requests for its TV and gaming console apps
As of late, YouTube on smart/connected TVs has been a big focus area, and the company is letting the community vote on what feature requests the development team should prioritize.
Expand Expanding CloseYouTube rolling out black dark theme, ‘Ambient Mode,’ and other video player updates
After testing for the past few months, YouTube today officially announced several design updates, including Ambient Mode, to the video player across Android, iOS, the web, and smart TVs.
Expand Expanding CloseYouTube Music rolls out 7-day stats and teases more lyric features
YouTube Music’s bimonthly recap of feature launches for August and September 2022 is here with wide rollouts for seven-day stats and a handful of teases about what the team is working on next.
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Google improving Gmail search with labels and related results
Google is rolling out a trio of features to improve the search experience in Gmail with labels and related results. Chat also gets some upgrades with AI-generated summaries and inline threading for Spaces.
Expand Expanding CloseGoogle Messages adding in-app YouTube PiP, free RCS over inflight Wi-Fi, and more
Google is rolling out a handful of new features for Messages today to make the core experience more convenient, like a YouTube PiP. This follows a similar set of announcements back in March.
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