On the web, Google Drive, along with Gmail, has one of the better applications of Material You, and it’s now getting a “smoother, more modern video player.”

Following the announcement last week, YouTube has widely rolled out the new miniplayer on Android and a redesign of mobile settings.

The latest round of new features for Google Messages is focused on safety, like “Sensitive Content Warnings” for images that contain nudity. Existing measures protect Android users from 2 billion suspicious messages per month.

As seen with the Android redesign earlier this month, Google has been working to simplify the Gemini app, and that continues today with “Ask Gemini.”

The floating bottom bar introduced by Google Chat is almost a year old, and a design tweak makes it fit in better with Material You.

YouTube Music already lets you generate AI art for playlist thumbnails, and it now lets you upload your own custom image.

The Google app is not the company’s nicest looking application, but a small carousel redesign on Android makes it a tiny bit more cohesive.

Google only officially announced Chrome’s “Listen to this page” capability last month as part of the latest Android features for the fall season, and an update this week adds support for background playback.

Google Photos on the web is getting an interesting new backup capability that can upload a folder “from your computer automatically.”

As announced in September, Google Wallet is starting to test the ability to make digital IDs with US passports. It can be used as some TSA checkpoints.

Google is continuing to build on the viral success of NotebookLM with a handful of updates today. With millions of users to date, Google’s NotebookLM is losing the “experimental” status/badge in the top-left corner.

Since the big redesign last year, Fitbit has been updating more and more of the app with Material You. An update today changes the color palette that the Fitbit app uses.

Google today detailed how you can now make complex image edits, like with Magic Eraser, in Photos while maintaining Ultra HDR quality on the Pixel 8+.

Google Meet is currently upgrading the personal video calling experience and as part of this the “original” app has stopped working. 

Ahead of the busy holiday travel season, Google Flights is rolling out a new “Cheapest” search filter. 

A small tweak to Gboard for Android adds a font switcher for some degree of customization.

Announced at the end of May, the Google Home Favorites widget on Android no longer requires that you join the Public Preview program.

In addition to a slew of new features, the YouTube UI is getting some design updates across mobile, web, and TV. These visual improvements, including a subtle frosted glass effect, aim to “simplify” YouTube.

Google Shopping is being redesigned with AI today. In addition to a site revamp and new logo, Google’s Shopping Graph has been combined with Gemini models to power these new experiences.

YouTube is making official a number of updates that it’s been testing in recent months, like the new miniplayer and several design updates.

Made by Google always releases stylized “design of” videos for its Pixel and Nest products. The latest shows off an unreleased Concentric face for the Pixel Watch 3.

In recent weeks, Chrome for Android started working on a bottom address bar, and an early look is now available. 

With the addition of song lookup last month, Circle to Search was visually tweaked, and has now lost its Google Lens shortcut.