Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is enhancing video quality for Meet calls. Users on the web with high-resolution display will start seeing sharper, higher-bandwidth video. The changes do not appear to impact the Meet app on Android. Video conferencing systems like Google Meet are often designed to be incredibly flexible, handling users on … Read More “Some of us are getting a big Google Meet video quality upgrade” »
Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on YouTube TV issues that are delaying ESPN app authentication. Sources claim that the problem will not be fixed before ESPN airs its first WrestleMania. However, the sources expect that the problem will be solved in time for SummerSlam. Although YouTube TV subscribers were forced to … Read More “Planning to watch WrestleMania 42 this weekend? YouTube TV users might have a problem” »
Joe Maring / Android Authority A few months ago, Google and YouTube realized that I no longer lived in Lebanon and told me I couldn’t skate on paying just $9 per month for a Lebanese family Premium account. I had to face the music and switch to a two-person French Premium subscription for €19.99 per … Read More “I don’t want to use YouTube Music, even though I pay for it” »
Taylor Kerns / Android Authority I don’t just use Google Photos; I have over 50,000 photos in the app and on Google’s servers. I’ve been a loyal user since day one, and I rely on it to keep all my life’s memories and my best photos (along with my NAS for backups). But the more … Read More “Google should fix these 8 missing features in Photos before adding more AI” »
Joe Maring / Android Authority The shift from Snapdragon processors to Google’s in-house Tensor chips inside Pixel phones brought a big advantage for Google. Vertical integration gave Google more control over the entire hardware and software experience, much like Apple has maintained all along. We started to see the benefits of this deep integration when … Read More “Google is slowly ruining one of the best reasons to buy a Pixel” »
Joe Maring / Android Authority On my Pixel phone, there are many Google-made apps that are not just essential to the way I live and work, but completely impossible for me to let go of. Calendar has all my important meetings and upcoming events; Chrome has my entire browsing history and research; Gmail is, well, … Read More “Forget Photos and Maps, this is the Google app I can’t live without anymore” »
Megan Ellis / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a redesigned Games tab in the Play Store that adds prominent, scrollable genre bubbles. The update also brings these genre bubbles to the Top Charts tab, replacing the easily overlooked and overwhelming Categories dropdown. The Google Play Store remains the beating heart of Android for Google … Read More “Google tests Play Store UI change that should help picky gamers save time” »
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Android 17 Beta 4 makes internal reference to an in-development notification tool called Pixel Glow. Pixel Glow uses “subtle light and color” when your phone is face-down to let you know when things happen. Requirements for hardware lights might mean that Google’s adding RGB LEDs to upcoming Pixel … Read More “Mysterious ‘Pixel Glow’ notification tool may involve new hardware” »
Recently, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed legal complaints against Google. The complaints accuse Google of deceptive trade practices for breaking its own policies after it handed a user’s data to US authorities without notifying them. The tech giant claims that there are certain exceptions where it will not notify the user first. Now the … Read More “EFF pushes back on Google data scandal response: ‘Google screwed up’” »
Guest Post / Android Authority TL;DR A legal complaint has been filed against Google after it gave a student’s data to the government without notifying the user. Google’s own policy notes that, with a few exceptions, it will notify users before handing over data. This news also comes as Google-free Android forks like GrapheneOS gain … Read More “This Google user data scandal shows why more people are using GrapheneOS” »
