by dbadmin | Sep 18, 2025 | Android 16, Authority Insights, Google, News
TL;DR Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2 adds a new Material 3 Expressive look to the Setup Wizard. The redesigned Setup Wizard includes thicker buttons and a cleaner card-like UI on certain screens. Most users are likely to miss the changes as the Setup Wizard only appears on...
by dbadmin | Sep 17, 2025 | Android 16, Authority Insights, Features, News
In less than three months, Google will roll out the second quarterly release of Android 16 to Pixel devices, bringing major new features like an expanded dark theme, auto-themed app icons, an HDR/SDR brightness slider, and more. While Google previewed many of these...
by dbadmin | Sep 17, 2025 | Authority Insights, Google, Google Clock, News
TL;DR Google Clock 8.2 appears to fix some of the rendering issues users saw with the app’s Expressive redesign. Google’s working on a slightly tweaked workflow for alarm creation, making date options more prominent. Alarms that fail to go off as scheduled should...
by dbadmin | Sep 16, 2025 | Authority Insights, Google, Google Wallet, News
Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Wallet seems to be preparing a new way to “favorite” passes. Users will be able to tap a star button to add a pass to their favorites and have it appear on the home screen. It’s unclear whether the starred or...
by dbadmin | Sep 16, 2025 | Authority Insights, News, Samsung, Samsung Health
TL;DR Samsung will launch an AI-powered assistant in its Health app soon. We’ve managed to surface the feature in Samsung Health, revealing how it’ll appear and what it can do. Called “Samsung Health assistant,” the feature is essentially an AI chatbot that can help...
by dbadmin | Sep 15, 2025 | Authority Insights, Google, Google Gemini, News
Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini could be getting a refreshed home screen, as we’ve also seen before. Google has begun testing it with a small set of users using the latest beta version of the Google app. Google is also testing suggestions for...
