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.

Google Lens is rolling out the highly-requested ability to save your Visual Search History so that you can return to any analyzed image in the future.

We’ve noticed an uptick in notifications sent by YouTube Music since the start of 2024, and the mobile app is now readying an “Activity” feed.

Following the announcement in late February at MWC 2024 and the March Pixel Feature Drop, Google Maps for Wear OS is more widely rolling out public transit directions. 

Following the tease at the Pixel Watch 2 launch in October, Google Health provided an update on Fitbit Labs at The Checkup 2024 event.

Google is finally rolling out a straightforward Material You redesign of Play Books for Android. It follows the new icon introduced last year, with the app rarely seeing updates.

When the Material You revamp of the Fitbit app rolled out in September, most but not all pages were modernized. We now have a look at a redesign of Fitbit’s Sleep stats page. 

Google Calendar “appointment slots” have long allowed education and enterprise users to create and reserve specified time slots. Google is now removing that capability and replacing it with “appointment schedules.”

As previewed in early February, the Google Phone dialer app has removed the Nearby places search feature on Android.

Back in October, the main YouTube rolled out a slew of mobile updates like stable volume and a hum to search capability. Song search is now rolling out to YouTube Music.

Back in November, Google Photos introduced better document sorting and another update to the capability adds labels to screenshots, notes, etc., as well as a manual categorization option.

For those that want the most secure tier of Google Safe Browsing, Chrome offers “Enhanced protection.” The “Standard protection” in place for all other Chrome Safe Browsing users is now getting a real-time upgrade.

Like the main service, YouTube TV is also rolling out a redesign of its video player on televisions to offer live scores and other sports information.

Google Home for web is entering general availability and adding camera history, while the custom clips feature is similarly exiting preview.

To date, YouTube on televisions has been a leanback experience focused on displaying fullscreen content. An upcoming redesign of YouTube video player for TVs adds more interactivity.

Following Photomoji, animated emoji, and some Screen Effects, Reaction Effects are seeing wide availability in Google Messages for Android.