Comments in YouTube Music are now seven months old, and the Android and iOS apps have now rolled out a slick visual redesign of the panel. 

Following the announcement at the end of February, Fitbit is slowly rolling out the ability to see stats from Health Connect wearables and services in its Android app.

After rolling out the dual-column layout for descriptions and comments, the YouTube app on TVs is prominently showcasing “key moments.” 

Depending on how you launch Google Wallet on your Pixel, you might see an older design instead of the redesign. 

After doing bi-monthly recaps of new features for the past several years, YouTube Music will now detail launches on a quarterly basis.

The YouTube family of apps have their own design language compared to first-party Google applications. That trend is not changing anytime soon and continues today with a redesign of the custom share sheet in YouTube Music for Android.

The YouTube Music website now supports offline downloads of songs and podcasts to match the mobile apps. This first emerged in February.

Apple-owned Shazam is out with a significant update that revamps the Wear OS app.

Google Search is home to various tools and the latest lets you look up Bitcoin addresses to show the balance of any wallet.

The work to make Gemini a better phone assistant continues, with Google recently updating it to automatically start Maps navigation “when you ask for directions.”

Earlier this year, Google Chat introduced a floating bottom bar, and Google Keep for Android is following suit. 

In addition to a trio of announcements around lists ahead of the summer travel season, Google Maps will be simplifying its bottom bar on mobile. 

Besides search, reviews, and photos, Google Maps wants to help you find places to visit using lists from its community and third-parties.

Following the announcement a month ago, Gemini is starting to roll out for some Google Messages beta users. 

To speed up sharing, Google Photos now lets you set a “Favorite shortcut” to “share instantly and in full quality with your favourite person.”

As previewed last year, Google Chat is rolling out the ability to record and send voice messages. However, at launch, they’re only available for paid Google Workspace accounts.

After revamping the in-app camera, Google Messages is testing a photo preview screen on Android.

In recent days, some Google Wallet users have noticed that they’re being prompted to always unlock their Android phone for tap to pay regardless of the transaction amount.

After adding the “Scan Text” OCR tool, Gboard’s latest feature is a “Quality Bug Report” shortcut that opens Google’s standard tool for submitting issues and feedback on Android.

As part of the March Feature Drop, the original Pixel Watch is getting the new Fitbit Workout UI introduced with the second-generation wearable.

Profile discovery was announced last November and it’s now seeing a wider Google Messages rollout with the most obvious change being updated contact photos.

Following Messages last year, Google Contacts is now the latest app to replace its navigation drawer as part of a small redesign today that really simplifies things.

Google has yet to enable system-level Predictive Back in Android 14, but the in-app variant is live in some apps, including Gmail most recently.

Following the February announcement, Android’s new cloud photo picker, which supports Google Photos and other apps, is more widely rolling out.