Following the new website, Google Tasks is now showing what date something was “Completed” in the Android and iOS app. 

In recent weeks, Google Assistant has gained support for setting Amazon Music as the default streaming service on Nest speakers and displays.

Google is more deeply integrating Lens visual search into Chrome for iOS with a new Screen Search capability that takes after Circle to Search on Android. Meanwhile, Google Lens can now recognize more unique images.

As previously announced, Google has removed the 1.5 family of models from the Gemini app following the launch of 2.0 Flash. 

In a newsletter (email) to Gemini Advanced subscribers today, Google teased what will be available in the coming months.

At the end of 2023, Google Calendar gained a fullscreen Tasks interface on the web. That experience is now available as a standalone Google Tasks website. 

Google Meet is updating a trio of existing features today, with a short history now available for live and translated captions.

YouTube is improving the experience of listening to songs and watching music videos on TVs with Display options, like live lyrics.

Third-party ebook apps on iPhone and iPad have historically not let users make direct purchases. Google Play Books for iOS is now supporting Apple’s “reader” apps exception for providing external links to buy ebooks.

As announced at the end of January, Google is rolling out a Personal Safety update that adds a confirmation step for Emergency SOS on the Pixel Watch.

Google Wallet on Android is encouraging users to “upgrade” some of their loyalty card passes today.

The Phone by Google app is adding filters to the “Recents” tabs that lets you sort and quickly triage your call history list.

Google is rolling out the straightforward ability to search your open tabs, as well as Tab Group sync, to Chrome for Android.

Following purchase (before the holidays) and calendar (last month), Gmail is updating the bills summary card on Android and iOS. 

As announced last month, the Google Home Gemini Extension is no longer in preview and widely available. This stable rollout took a few weeks.

After introducing for paid Advanced subscribers last year, free Gemini users are starting to get the ability to upload and analyze files.

A nice quality-of-life improvement for Google Chat will let you rename group conversations, while teams will benefit from a new “board” feature.

Google today is rolling out a new Gemini app feature for Advanced subscribers that can recall and “reference past chats for more tailored help.” 

Following Talk Live about this, Gemini Live is getting a model update that will “make your conversations even more dynamic and engaging.” 

Using the web (and later PWA) to watch Apple TV+ on Android devices for the past five or so years has not been particularly ideal. That’s now changing with an Apple TV app for Android phones and tablets available in the Google Play Store. 

A small redesign for Gmail on Android improves the readability of each overflow menu by adding icons and more thematic organization. It makes for nice quality-of-life improvements.