Android 16 QPR1’s ‘Ambient AOD’ brings your wallpaper to the Pixel’s always-on display

by dbadmin | Jun 3, 2025 | Android 16, Authority Insights, News

Google Pixel phones may soon feature an always-on display that shows a blurred version of your lock screen wallpaper, a new option called ‘ambient AOD’. This ‘ambient AOD’ feature is hidden in the Android 16 QPR1 beta update and includes a user toggle to turn the...

Android 16 QPR1 will suggest photo wallpapers of your loved ones from Google Photos

by dbadmin | Jun 3, 2025 | Android 16, Authority Insights, Google, Google Photos, News, Wallpapers

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google Pixel users on Android 16 QPR1 Beta 1 are now getting personalized wallpaper suggestions. The suggestions are curated from your Google Photos library, mainly featuring people and pets. Users can revoke access if they...

Now Playing could get this feature that it should have had from the start (APK teardown)

by dbadmin | Jun 2, 2025 | Authority Insights, Google, Google Pixel, News

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority An Android Authority teardown has revealed that Google is working on an easy way to manually enable Now Playing functionality. Now Playing runs in the background and uses on-device machine learning to automatically identify...

Pixel VIPs could be the Contacts app upgrade you didn’t know you needed (APK teardown)

by dbadmin | May 30, 2025 | Authority Insights, Google, Google Contacts, Google Pixel, News, WhatsApp

Credit: Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority Google is testing a new “Pixel VIPs” home screen widget within the Contacts app that centralizes info from key contacts. The widget shows recent calls, messages (including WhatsApp), location data, birthdays, and allows notes...

Google Phone’s incoming call screen could get a facelift you can choose (APK teardown)

by dbadmin | May 30, 2025 | Authority Insights, Google, Google Phone app, News

Credit: Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority Google is testing two interfaces for the incoming call screen in the Phone app. Users may be able to choose between a pill-based horizontal swipe UI or an iPhone-like single-tap UI for answering/declining calls. However,...

First look: Google’s Phone app is getting a tasty Android 16 redesign (APK teardown)

by dbadmin | May 30, 2025 | Authority Insights, Google, Google Phone app, Material 3 Expressive, News

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority An Android Authority teardown has revealed Material 3 Expressive design tweaks coming to Google’s Phone app. The visual tweaks currently apply to the incoming call and in-call menus. This comes after we discovered visual...