TechPhonesAndroid PhonesGoogle just dropped a bunch of cool free upgrades for all Android phonesNew Android phone features for allWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
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New Android phone features for all
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Thebest Android phonesjust got better.Googlehas been working on a suite of updates to the apps you use most, solving some little irritations and makingAndroideven more fun.
My favourite new feature is the support foriPhoneemoji, which solves a small but painful problem: previously if someone on an iPhone used an emoji reaction, it’d show up on your Android phone as a block of text. Now you get proper emoji, which makes talking to iPhone users considerably smoother.
Another messages change is really handy: when you send a video to someone in a chat from your Google Photos library, it’s sent in the same resolution. Google will be bringing this feature to photos soon. In addition to this there’s a new organised inbox, automatic deletion of one-time password messages after 24 hours, nudges to follow up on messages and reminders so you’ll never forget your friends' birthdays.
Autocorrect and accessibility
Gboard now gets a really useful feature for more formal messages: grammar correction, which keeps an eye on your typing and offers suggestions to help you get your message across more clearly. And for less formal messages there are more than 2,000 new emoji mashups available as Gboard stickers. Pixel users running US English will also get a feature to convert words into stickers made from your text.
Live Transcribe is brilliant, and now it works offline too. It provides real-time text-to-speech captioning for people with hearing issues, and its offline mode means you no longer need to get a signal to get its help.
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It’s all very impressive, and it’ll be rolling out to Android phones in the next few weeks. You can find out more on the official Googleblog.
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