As teased at I/O 2023 last month, Google Weather is getting a Material You redesign, and it’s appearing first on the Pixel Tablet.

The interface for typing and sending messages in a chat app has been on my mind lately given Google’s addition of Magic Compose (too crowded) and the redesign Apple is doing in iOS 17 (too simple).

YouTube Music is getting a big redesign on the web that adopts a navigation drawer with very quick access to playlists. 

More than a few Google Pixel and Samsung owners today are reporting that their contacts are missing and have disappeared from their Android phone.

Many nefarious parties try to manipulate Search to drive more traffic to spam, low-quality, and deceptive websites, and Google is now offering a better way to directly report them.

Immediately after I/O 2023 last month, Google started more widely rolling out Workspace Labs, and “Help me write” is now seeing wide availability in Gmail for Android and iOS for enrolled testers.

As announced at the start of this month, Google News is getting updated Material You widgets that are now rolling out.

Last year, Google Docs on the web finally added a pageless format. That view has long been available in Docs for Android, but Google is now defaulting to a paginated mode.

Following the announcement earlier this month, Google Keep has rolled out the Single note Wear OS Tile, while making a few other visual tweaks to the Android app.

As we spotted a month ago, Google is rolling out the new Play Books app icon on Android along with a navigation rail on tablets.

Last week, Google started letting users migrate away from Assistant Reminders to Google Tasks and is now starting the automatic transfer for Workspace users, with personal accounts following soon.

Google’s continued work to make its Password Manager more prominent continues with a major upgrade on desktop Chrome that’s now rolling out.

Google News is getting a number of updates focused on improving the local news experience with a revamped Following tab and the launch of News Showcase in the US.

Back in November, YouTube Music introduced a Now Playing revamp that primarily hid the dislike button. This was rolled back at the start of the year and YouTube Music is now testing a carousel-focused redesign of Now Playing.

Earlier this year, Chrome added support for more advanced Picture-in-Picture (PiP), and the Google Meet PiP is now taking advantage of that with a big upgrade.

The main update to Google Bard today makes the tool better at mathematical tasks, coding questions, and string manipulation with a new “structured, logic-driven” system.

At I/O 2023 last month, Google announced “Duet AI” as the branding for generative AI features in Workspace. It’s now available to pre-order for Workspace Enterprise customers and other large businesses.

After launching in early access this March, Minecraft for Chromebooks is officially launching today in a notable boost for the platform’s gaming ambitions. 

The settings page for Google Photos on Android has always been particularly overwhelming, and it’s now seeing a much-needed redesign.

The most full-featured YouTube Music experience today is found on Android and iOS followed by the web. Google is now planning to release more YouTube Music apps and integrations for third-party devices.

Fitbit is moving away from its own account and password system to just use Google’s. This provides a number of benefits and is rolling out now. 

We’re expecting a big update to Google Chat in the future, but until then, the existing web app is adding Smart Compose to make writing messages “faster and easier.”