[ad_1] 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 …
[ad_1] 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 …
[ad_1] 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 …
[ad_1] 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, …
[ad_1] 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 …
[ad_1] 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 …
[ad_1] 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 …
[ad_1] 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 …
[ad_1] Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google has announced a few improvements to the cropping tool in Google Photos. The company says it now offers smoother animations for rotating, dragging, and adjusting aspect ratios. It also fixed a couple of bugs related to the cropping tool. Google Photos has a bunch of AI editing …
[ad_1] Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Personal Intelligence launched earlier this year, giving Gemini a holistic look at your digital life across Google products. Google is now expanding access to Personal Intelligence globally, with the key exception of European markets. The company also teases that Personal Intelligence for free Gemini users globally will be …
