by dbadmin | Sep 15, 2025 | Android, Authority Insights, News, Widgets
Credit: Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Pixel Launcher’s At a Glance widget may soon be upgraded for better text visibility. Google appears to be testing a new high-contrast background for the widget to enhance the readability of the text. Besides the home...
by dbadmin | Sep 15, 2025 | Android Security, Authority Insights, Google, Messaging Apps, News, WhatsApp
Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has revealed that Google’s Scam Detection feature is coming to chat apps. The feature will display scam detection alerts in chat app notifications. It’s possible that apps like WhatsApp,...
by dbadmin | Sep 15, 2025 | Authority Insights, Google Pixel, Google Pixel Watch, Google Wear OS, News
Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing new functionality as part of the Pixel Watch Unlock feature, which allows you to unlock your Pixel phone using the Watch. The upgrade could enable you to not only unlock your Pixel phone using a Pixel...
by dbadmin | Sep 14, 2025 | Apple iPhone, Authority Insights, Google, News, Quick Share
Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has uncovered just how Quick Share will work for iPhones. Android owners can share a QR code with iPhone users to let them download files. However, files shared with iPhone users via Quick...
by dbadmin | Sep 13, 2025 | Authority Insights, Authority Insights Podcast, News
This week, Mishaal Rahman and C. Scott Brown lament Google’s decision to close off Android. They also discuss how Google might be taking a page out of Apple’s book by adding native step tracking to Health Connect, and break down a trio of new features coming to the...
by dbadmin | Sep 13, 2025 | Authority Insights, Authority Insights Newsletter, Features
For the past decade, Google has consistently published an Android Security Bulletin every month, even if the company wasn’t ready to roll out a security update to its own Pixel devices. These bulletins detail the vulnerabilities that have been fixed in that month’s...
