Google Messages on the web rarely gets updated, but a recent addition lets you directly reply to RCS chats like on Android.

The price of an individual YouTube Premium subscription is increasing by $2 to $13.99 per month in the US for new and current customers.

One advantage of Google Play Billing is the ability to manage your subscriptions in one place, but that UI and functionality are currently broken on Android.

Google today announced its support for interoperable end-to-end encrypted communication between large messaging platforms, with plans to integrate the MLS protocol into Google Messages and Android.

Following the beta this March, Google is ready to launch Nearby Share for Windows in full today.

After starting public testing in Slides, AI image generation is now coming to Google Meet on the web to create custom backgrounds.

Google announced Home Panel was coming to Pixel phones with the June Feature Drop, and it’s now widely rolling out with an update to the Google Home app.

The Arts & Culture app gained a new icon earlier this year that evoked rather strong opinions, and Google has now introduced an updated version on Android.

Over the past few days, Google has been prominently promoting Enhanced Safe Browsing in the Gmail apps.

AppSheet lets businesses easily build internal tools, and Google is now giving access to entry Google Workspace tiers.

Boosting playback speed is a common occurrence with most YouTube content these days, especially with podcasts, and Google is making it easier to 2x videos with a new gesture.

Google rolled out the ability for Messages to auto-group SMS texts and RCS chats last year, but the categories have now disappeared for some users.

Google introduced Gmailify in 2016 so that you could use Gmail features like spam filtering and inbox organization with a third-party account, but that integration is currently down. 

After launching in late April for US users, YouTube Music is starting to roll out international support for podcasts.

YouTube Music is addressing a big issue with the permanent miniplayer by adding a “Dismiss queue” button. 

Google is continuing its move to more explicitly label “RCS” in Messages with a very prominent badge noting which conversations are eligible.

Google is giving Bard its “biggest expansion to date” by coming to Europe and Brazil, as well as supporting additional languages. The AI chatbot is also getting new productivity and personalization features.

Somewhat surprisingly, the Google Search app on Android now offers a “Finance Watchlist” stocks widget.

Google is rolling out a new Calendar tool in the Gmail web client that makes it easier and faster to schedule meetings.

After completing the Tasks migration and introducing tablet optimizations, Google Calendar for Android is next adding Material You widgets. 

As it has done for the smart TV experience and Music, YouTube is now asking for feedback about YouTube Premium with a poll on top issues and complaints.

As part of the Search Generative Experience, Google made it so that hovering over a result gives you convenient shortcuts. On mobile, you can swipe right on Google Search results to quickly share and save.

Pixel Call Assist is one of Google’s differentiating phone features and the company is actively beta testing new Call Screen capabilities.