by dbadmin | Nov 23, 2025 | Google, Google Gemini, News, Polls, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy Watch 8
Credit: Brady Snyder / Android Authority Smartwatches are the perfect use case for a voice assistant — the small screen makes touch-based navigation and typing cumbersome, and users also have lower expectations and needs for the tasks they can accomplish on the watch....
by dbadmin | Nov 23, 2025 | Features, Gmail, Google Gemini, google messages
Ever since AI made a hard landing in our lives, I wake up every day to a new way it could automate some random chore and make my life just a little less miserable and a lot easier. AI can do what it does best — analyze data and find patterns — and that basic system...
by dbadmin | Nov 23, 2025 | Apple, Apple AirDrop, European Commission, Features, Google, Google Pixel 10, Quick Share, WI-FI
Google surprised everyone this week by doing the unthinkable and rolling out AirDrop support for the Pixel 10 without any hacks, directly through Quick Share. If you have a Pixel 10 like me, now you can Quick Share with any iPhone, iPad, and Mac, or even AirDrop back...
by dbadmin | Nov 23, 2025 | Features, Google, Google Pixel
Google’s Pixel Launcher is better than I give it credit for, but it isn’t without its shortcomings. As a Pixel 8 user, I encounter the home screen’s quirks every day, but even so, its limitations can be leveraged to build a highly functional, productivity-first home...
by dbadmin | Nov 22, 2025 | Features, YouTube
YouTube has been gradually expanding its AI age-estimation operations in the US over the past few months. It started in July, with the announcement that the platform would require users who didn’t seem sufficiently adult to verify they’re over the age of 18 before...
by dbadmin | Nov 22, 2025 | Apple, Apple AirDrop, Authority Insights, Authority Insights Podcast, Features, Google, Google Pixel 10, Quick Share, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy Buds, Samsung One UI
This week, Mishaal Rahman and C. Scott Brown discuss the bombshell news that Google has updated Quick Share to be compatible with Apple’s AirDrop — without Apple’s help. They also break down the leaked design and new “head gesture” features of the Samsung Galaxy Buds...
by dbadmin | Nov 22, 2025 | AI, Google Gemini, Software lists
Credit: Mitja Rutnik / Android Authority Thanks to AI, starting an online business has never been easier. Technology can dramatically speed things up in more areas than you can imagine, and it also lowers the cost of both starting and running a business. However, you...
by dbadmin | Nov 22, 2025 | Android 17, Authority Insights, Authority Insights Newsletter, News
Android has a built-in clipboard that makes copying and pasting text or images in your favorite apps easy, but its contents aren’t automatically synced across your devices. This means that transferring copied content between Android devices currently requires a...
by dbadmin | Nov 22, 2025 | News, OnePlus, Oppo, Polls, Survey Results
Credit: Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority A few years ago, I questioned whether OPPO was trying to ruin OnePlus. Fast-forward to 2025 and I’m more convinced than ever that this is the case, as OnePlus follows up the excellent OnePlus 13 with the polarizing OnePlus...
by dbadmin | Nov 22, 2025 | Features, Google, Google Home, Google Nest, Google One
As a longtime Gmail and Google Photos user, I’ve always had my eye on Google One subscription plans. For the better part of a decade, I tried just about anything to avoid paying up for Google One storage, pushing the free 15GB of cloud storage to its limit....
