Earlier this month, Google launched Audio Overviews in NotebookLM that turn your notes into a podcast. The latest NotebookLM update lets you use audio files and YouTube videos as sources. 

Fitbit for Android has now been downloaded over 100 million times from the Google Play Store.

The blue checkmarks that Gmail introduced to verify senders last year are now coming to the Android and iOS app. 

Following heart rate last week, the latest Fitbit stat pages to undergo a Material You redesign are Body responses & mood, Mindfulness, and Stress management score.

The Gemini Extension for Google Calendar is starting to roll out for some accounts on Android and the web client.

Google Maps is getting sharper satellite imagery and more Street View content, while Google Earth will soon let users access more historical imagery.

After the Collections tab revamp and search updates, Google Photos is now rolling out a redesign of its mobile video editor. The goal is to make it “easier than ever to edit your favorite videos into stunning clips to share.”

Following the web, Google is giving the Gemini app on Android a greatly simplified homescreen.

The queue on the YouTube Music web client now persists through tab closures and relaunches, while also being able to load your phone’s queue.

Google TV is redesigning the top portion of its mobile Android app to allow for a more immersive, search field-less UI.

The next notable update (version 7.72) for Pocket Casts on Android and iOS adds support for transcripts and video/audio clip sharing. 

YouTube for Android is rolling out a transparent status bar that makes for a nice qualify-of-life improvement.

At the moment, birthdays that appear in Google Calendar are based on Google Contacts information, but manual creation is now coming.

Last week, Google announced that Gemini Live is beginning to roll out for free users, and it’s now hitting the first Android devices.

At Made on YouTube 2024, Google announced the latest features for Creators that also enhance the viewer experience.

One of the more exciting uses of AI in desktop Google Chrome lets you naturally search your browsing history, and here’s how to turn that capability on.

Google announced the first wave of Android Cross-device services at the end of May, and we’re now seeing wide availability of Internet sharing and Call casting. 

After rolling out to mobile for some, the Gemini Extensions for Google Keep and Tasks are now available in gemini.google.com.

After last year’s revamp, Fitbit has been slowly updating more and more of the mobile app, with Heart Rate stats being the latest redesign.

The Search widget offered by the Google app on iPhone and iPad now offers customizable shortcuts, including to Gemini.

The presentation experience in Google Slides is getting a nice quality-of-life update with multi-monitor support. 

In addition to Keep and Tasks, Google announced a Calendar Gemini Extension earlier this year, and we now have more details about what it can do.

After removing the navigation drawer and the renamed “Organize” tab, the next big change to Google Contacts is a redesign of how you create a new contact.