by dbadmin | Nov 8, 2025 | Android 16, Authority Insights, Authority Insights Newsletter, News
Many Android apps ask for your current location to show you more relevant results or help with directions, but most don’t need your precise GPS coordinates to do the job. That’s why Android offers two levels of location accuracy: Precise and Approximate. These options...
by dbadmin | Nov 8, 2025 | Authority Insights, Authority Insights Podcast, Features, Google, Google Assistant, Google Gemini, Qualcomm, Qualcomm Snapdragon
This week, Mishaal Rahman and C. Scott Brown discuss the sweeping changes coming to Android and the Google Play Store thanks to the Epic Games lawsuit settlement, the beginning of the end for Google Assistant on Android, and whether the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5...
by dbadmin | Nov 7, 2025 | Authority Insights, Google, Google Play Store, News
TL;DR Play Store reviews can be a useful resource for learning about apps, but they lack a search tool. You can currently filter reviews by score, date, or even specific topics, but you can’t add new topics yourself. It’s not yet functional, but some new code strings...
by dbadmin | Nov 7, 2025 | Authority Insights, Google, Google Gemini, google messages, News
Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The upcoming “Insights” feature in Google Messages will use Gemini to provide a concise, three-point summary of shared links. The feature will be able to use both the provided link information and external web...
by dbadmin | Nov 7, 2025 | Authority Insights, News, Samsung, Samsung One UI
TL;DR Samsung is bringing notification summarization and prioritization features with One UI 8.5, but we’ve discovered certain limitations. These features will only work in the device’s default language, likely disappointing for multilingual users. One UI 8.5 may also...
by dbadmin | Nov 6, 2025 | Android apps, Authority Insights, Features
Yesterday, Google and Epic finally reached an agreement to settle their years-long legal dispute. If approved by the judge overseeing the case, the settlement would resolve the lawsuit Epic filed in 2020 to challenge Google’s stranglehold on Android app distribution....
