by dbadmin | Apr 7, 2025 | Authority Insights, Google, Google Apps, News
Google offers several tools for Android users to identify music that they hear playing. While Pixel Now Playing and your Google account’s web history have included past song searches, a similar view has been missing from the Google app itself. Now the Google app’s...
by dbadmin | Apr 7, 2025 | Google, Google Apps, News
Credit: Andy Walker / Android Authority Google is deploying its own link shorteners, search.app and share.google, for content shared from Discover. The new short links obscure source websites but retain the ability to generate rich previews with metadata like images...
by dbadmin | Apr 3, 2025 | Google, Google Apps, News
Credit: Andy Walker / Android Authority Google is rolling out a new full-width, zero-image margin layout for Google Discover on Android. This layout allegedly cuts off portions of the featured image and does not align with other recent Material Design 3 changes to...
by dbadmin | Apr 2, 2025 | Authority Insights, Google, Google Apps, Music, News
Google offers several options for song ID on Android, but some currently require you to tell Google to listen for music. An in-progress change to the Google app would upgrade microphone input to automatically recognize songs. While it’s currently possible to preview...
by dbadmin | Mar 27, 2025 | Features, Google, Google Apps
Google apps are treasure troves of tricks ready to be discovered. While we’re regularly uncovering new features through our Authority Insights series, there are some tried and tested gestures and shortcuts we already know and love. One, in particular, saves me so much...
by dbadmin | Mar 18, 2025 | Google, Google Apps, Google Play Services, News
Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Some Android users are getting a persistent error notification urging them to update Google Play Services to restore app functionality. The notification redirects users to the app’s Play Store page where there is no update...
