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Google Wallet on Galaxy Watch asking for PIN to make payments is just a bug

Earlier this week, 9To5Google reported that Google Wallet on Wear OS had started asking for the PIN to make tap-to-pay transactions for some users. While the change offered increased security, many people were disappointed with it as they would now have to go through an additional step on their Galaxy Watch to make payments. Well, […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
4 days ago

Galaxy phones start getting April 2024 Google Play System update

Google's April 2024 Play System update is now rolling out for Samsung Galaxy devices, including the Galaxy S24 flagship lineup. The latter, as you might remember, was a bit late to receive the January 2024 Google Play System update a couple of months ago, but now it appears to be back on track with the […]

By Mihai Matei
5 days ago

Google fixes Android 15 Beta’s NFC bug, working to improve notification channels

A few days ago, Google released the first Beta version of Android 15. It is available for compatible Pixel phones and tablets. While it was considered generally stable for smartphone enthusiasts, it had a critical NFC-related bug that could impact day-to-day usage. Google has now fixed it with a new Android 15 Beta update. Android […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
6 days ago

One UI 6.1: Instantly translate on-screen text using Circle to Search

Circle to Search is one of the most talked about AI features available on One UI 6.1, the version of One UI that introduced the Galaxy AI experience to Galaxy smartphones and tablets. With Circle to Search, you can circle or highlight any images or text you see on their screen to instantly search for […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
6 days ago

Google’s Gemini might soon replicate Google Assistant’s music streaming integration

Google Assistant has been here for a long time, but now it's time to move on from Google Assistant to Google Gemini. Gemini is Google's brand-new, more intelligent digital assistant that better understands natural language and can keep a conversation going. It launched on Android phones and tablets a few weeks ago but hasn't completely […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
6 days ago

Google Drive gets new filters on Android phones for better usability

Google Drive is among the best cloud storage solutions for a reason. It is extremely reliable, and Google keeps adding new features to the app on all the popular platforms. In a recent move, Google added new filters to the Google Drive app on Android. However, this feature was released a month after it was […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
1 week ago

YouTube could cause battery life, smoothness issues on older Galaxy devices

Updates usually bring new features and performance improvements. However, sometimes updates also bring performance and reliability issues. One such issue could come to YouTube on older or affordable Galaxy phones and tablets. Older and lower-end Galaxy phones could have performance issues on YouTube with AV1 decoding Google’s Arif Dikici (Android Video and Image Codecs Team) […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
1 week ago

Android 15 could enable wireless charging over NFC

In May 2020, the NFC Forum introduced NFC Wireless Charging, a standard for offering wireless charging over Near-Field Communication (NFC). This specification offers up to 1W of power transfer over a distance of 2cm. So, if there are two devices supporting this protocol, one device can send up to 1W of power to another device […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
1 week ago

Galaxy S25 could offer improved GenAI capability with second-generation Gemini Nano

The Galaxy S24 series smartphones brought Galaxy AI, a suite of GenAI features, including Circle to Search (CtS), to help you with various tasks. These features are powered by Google’s Gemini Nano, the smallest/lightest version of Gemini that is designed to run on devices such as phones and tablets. It gives them GenAI capability without […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
1 week ago

Google makes huge change to follow Samsung’s lead in AI for its products

It seems like all tech companies can do this year is talk about AI and how they're going to use it to make their products and services better. Samsung really took the lead on this one for the smartphone manufacturers. Galaxy AI brought to the forefront AI features for smartphones like never before. Probably not […]

By Adnan Farooqui
1 week ago

Google to soon fix accidental Circle to Search activations

The Galaxy S24 series introduced Circle to Search (CtS), a feature that allows you to search for anything on the screen by just drawing a circle around it. Currently, you can access CtS by long-pressing the home button or the navigation handle. However, people have been complaining that CtS gets activated accidentally quite a lot. […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
1 week ago

App permission syncing between Galaxy Watch and Android phone coming soon

Since Google and Samsung merged Wear OS and Tizen, Google has been rapidly improving Wear OS by adding new and useful features to it, such as introducing new applications for the platform, including Google Calendar and Gmail, improving existing apps, including Google Home and Google Maps, introducing new Tiles, and offering new watch face and […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
1 week ago

Google Keep reminders could be migrated to Google Tasks

Google has been merging and simplifying its apps and services over the past few years. First, it merged Google Duo and Google Meet. Then, it migrated Google Assistant reminders to Google Tasks. The company appears to be planning the same for Google Keep reminders. Google Keep reminders will be migrated to Google Tasks to simplify […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
1 week ago

Google Messages now shows the RCS provider in a different place

Many of you reading this article might be using Google Messages as the default messaging app but most of you might not know that the messaging platform can show you who is providing you Rich Communications Service (RCS). To check that information, click on the profile icon/picture, go to ‘Messages settings,‘ and select ‘RCS chats,‘ […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 weeks ago

Galaxy phones could soon get one more wallet app

Google Wallet is one of the most useful apps for Android devices as it allows you to store and access identification (ID) cards or documents, payment cards, boarding passes, and event tickets among other things. Unfortunately, it isn’t available in the world’s most populous country, India. Fortunately, that’s going to change soon. As spotted by […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 weeks ago

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