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.”

After getting a Material You refresh in April, Google has updated Pixel Recorder on the web with audio editing capabilities.

Google is rolling out an update to Gmail search that will show “Top results” first to help “you find exactly what you’re looking for much faster.”

After a big May with several sizable updates, Google Bard is kicking off June by adding support for precise location to get “more relevant responses.”

As previewed last September, Google Tasks is replacing Reminders and getting Assistant integration. Google is now more widely rolling out the ability to switch over and complete the migration.

In the coming weeks, Google is rolling out a trio of new features for Wear OS watches, including several new Tiles.

Google Chat, the company’s Slack and Microsoft Teams competitor, looks to be getting an overhaul in the near future that features a new logo and “Timeline”-focused redesign of the mobile apps.

Artist pages on YouTube Music have remained mostly unchanged over the years, but the Android, iOS, and web apps now show a combined “Top releases” section.

Last June, Google announced it was removing third-party Assistant voice apps and Nest Hub games in a year’s time. With that set to occur on June 20, another casualty of that deprecation is the shutdown of third-party Google Assistant Notes & Lists integration.

We already know what the new Google Weather will look like on phones, tablets, and foldables, and now we’re learning that it should be a standalone app.