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Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (July 2)

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C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we’ll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they’ll be optimized for various screens. For the newest wall

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Here’s a first look at the Google Personal Safety app’s Expressive redesign (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-13 23:00:53

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has revealed plenty of visual changes coming to the Personal Safety app. These changes are in line with Google’s Material 3 Expressive design language and cover the emergency contacts menus. This redesign will likely be exclusive to Android 16 QPR1 for now. Google’s Personal Safety app is a one-stop shop for emergencies, allowing you to quickly get help, record video, and much more. Now, it looks like Google is bringing so

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Gallery: Check out Samsung’s new watch faces for the Galaxy Watch 8 (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-14 12:23:33

Evan Blass / Samsung TL;DR Samsung’s next launch event is on July 9, and we expect to see the Galaxy Watch 8 series announced. Watch 8 leaks so far have detailed design changes and given us plenty of looks at the evolving hardware. Our attention now turns to some new watch faces which should premiere alongside the Watch 8 series. With July now on our doorstep, we are mere days away from Samsung’s next Unpacked launch event. In just a little over a week, media will descend upon New York City

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Check out Gemini’s new avatar in Google colors ahead of its official rollout (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-14 22:02:52

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google may soon replace Gemini’s two-tone color scheme with its iconic brand colors. The new colors will appear around the Gemini overlay, which could receive another minor design change. The Gemini logo will also adopt Google’s red, blue, yellow, and green color palette. Gemini may soon adopt Google’s iconic brand colors for its logo and overlay. We recently spotted these changes while digging through beta builds of the Google app on Android and gav

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Gemini Live looks like it’s getting ready to work with all your favorite apps (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-15 17:42:41

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Back in May, Google announced the first wave of Gemini Live extension support. Initial extensions for Maps, Calendar, Keep, and Tasks are slowly starting to hit users. Beyond these, we’ve uncovered a large list of Live extensions that appear to be in development. Gemini Live has been both technically impressive and quite a bit of fun to interact with, right from the get-go; the combination of Gemini’s powerful models and a naturally flowing conversati

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Happy hour with Gemini: How I built my perfect summer bartender

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-16 12:00:36

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority If you open the liquor cabinets (plural) in my home, you’ll find an eclectic collection of spirits ranging from the mundane to the random and unique bottles my husband and I have bought in some small or unknown town during our travels. My husband likes to joke that I gifted him a basic bartending course and now I’m benefiting from it, but in my mind, it was a sound financial investment for both of us. The problem, though, is that there isn’t a course varied e

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Use Xfinity Mobile on a Pixel phone? You may be getting a Wi-Fi Speed Boost (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-16 03:29:48

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Xfinity Mobile’s WiFi PowerBoost lets your phone access Wi-Fi speeds in excess of the internet plan you’re paying for. So far it’s supported iPhones and Samsung Galaxy flagships and mid-rangers, but not Android phones at large. New settings for “Xfinity Speed Boost” in Google’s Adaptive Connectivity Service app suggest availability could be improving. Going online with your smartphone over a Wi-Fi connection can offer a lot of advantages compared to

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Delivery message alerts could be coming to Now Brief (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-18 03:30:33

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Now Brief may soon alert you about package deliveries. The feature will remind you how many messages you received about deliveries for that day. Since debuting on One UI 7, Samsung has continued to flesh out the Now Brief feature. Earlier today, we reported that Samsung is working on adding info cards for parking spot reminders, smart home alerts, and wearable battery warnings. Now we have found that it could gain another pretty useful type of alert. Auth

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Pixel phones might finally be getting this highly requested feature in India (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-21 23:47:57

Andy Walker / Android Authority Pixel 8a TL;DR Google might be getting ready to introduce Call Screening on Pixel phones in India. The feature lets users identify callers and their reasons for calling before answering the phone, helping thwart spam calls. India might get the manual version of Call Screening instead of the automatic version available in the US. India has over a billion cellphone users and is one of the most affected countries in the world when it comes to spam calls. Hundreds

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Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (June 25)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-24 08:30:52

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we’ll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they’ll be optimized for various screens. For the newest wall

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Google Password Manager is getting a Material 3 Expressive glow up (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-26 12:40:13

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Google Password Manager on Android is getting a Material 3 Expressive makeover. Passwords and passkeys can now be filtered. This change is not exclusive to Android 16. Material 3 Expressive was officially introduced during Google I/O last month. Since then, we’ve seen Android’s new design language gradually trickle down to various apps like Drive and Google Phone. Now the makeover is making its way to Password Manager on Android. Authority Insights st

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Spotify’s much hated ‘Create’ button could soon go away, if you want it to (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-27 03:02:11

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify introduced a “Create” button in its app’s bottom navigation, but the move sparked widespread user backlash. Code within the latest app release suggests the company is listening to user feedback, as it could soon give users an option to hide the Create button. This opt-out toggle is not yet live, nor has Spotify officially confirmed it. Old habits die hard, and Spotify is learning this the hard way. The service introduced the “Create” button on it

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Your Android phone could soon buzz when your Fitbit is charged (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-27 10:38:47

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has revealed that your Android phone could soon get a notification when your Fitbit is fully charged. This would come years after Android owners first requested this feature, while iPhone owners have had this option for a long time. This would still be a great addition to the Fitbit app, as you don’t have to constantly check to see if your tracker is charged. Google recently updated the Fitbit app with an overhauled Device

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Gemini’s homescreen could take this idea from its biggest rival (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-01 02:06:20

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini is taking some inspiration from ChatGPT. There are now suggestion chips on Gemini’s homescreen. Google also appears to have made a tweak to the greeting text. Save for a brief, friendly greeting and text box at the bottom, Gemini’s homescreen is fairly empty. However, Google could fill up some of that unused space by taking an idea from one of its rivals. Authority Insights story on Android Authority. Discover You're reading anstory on Android Au

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Google Messages will help you shame your friends into finally turning on RCS (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-04 17:00:47

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR To take full advantage of RCS messaging features, everyone in the chat needs to have RCS enabled. Google Messages is working on a feature that would prompt you to send friends without RCS a message asking them to turn it on. Messaging on Android is better than it’s ever been, and a big part of that is due to the arrival of Rich Communication Services (RCS) support. While that’s absolutely helped start pulling down some of the walls between Android and

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Spotify may finally let you import music without jumping through hoops (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-05 12:04:55

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify is working on a feature to import your music. Currently, the service offers no way to import music from other services. We also discovered a URL for the feature. Hopping from one music service to another can be a pain for multiple reasons. However, losing the playlists you spent all of that time creating may be the biggest pain of all. If you want to switch to Spotify, this will be the position you’ll find yourself in since it doesn’t offer an im

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Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (June 18)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-09 15:30:40

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we’ll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they’ll be optimized for various screens. For the newest wall

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Gemini’s new video analysis feature is here, but there’s more coming (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-09 21:24:05

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR The latest version of the Google app now allows users to upload up to five minutes of video into Gemini for analysis. Gemini has supported video analysis through a YouTube integration, but rivals like ChatGPT have offered the option to upload videos directly to the AI assistant, so Gemini is finally catching up. Additionally, a future update will let users directly record videos within the app, expanding current photo-only capture, as spotted through our

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Finding the right editing tool in Google Photos is about to get easier (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-09 21:30:07

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has revealed that the Google Photos app is getting a search button for editing tools. This will allow you to type the name of an editing tool or option to quickly access it. This search option would save time compared to manually sifting through menus to find the correct tool. We just discovered that Google Photos will get its biggest redesign in years, featuring a Material 3 Expressive visual style and functional upgrad

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Samsung’s next foldables could arrive with a Google AI Pro freebie (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-11 07:37:44

Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority TL;DR Select Android smartphones offer an extended premium trial of Google’s AI services, including the Pixel 9 and Galaxy S25. A recent Google app update suggests that the Galaxy Fold 7 and Flip 7 will soon join that club. It’s still unclear for how long this free offer might apply, but was 6 months for the S25 series. Google’s premium AI offerings can pull off some really impressive feats — if you haven’t had a chance yet to see what kind of videos Veo 3 can

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Gemini preps a ‘Saved info’ rebrand as work on chat history search continues (Updated: Beta)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-11 14:25:18

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google has recently updated Gemini with a boatload of in-development UI tweaks. Some include dropping the “Gemini” name from headers, and rebranding “Saved info.” We also see further progress on multiple changes to the way you view and access chat history. Update 2: June 17, 2025 (09:25 AM ET): The updated sidebar is now rolling out in beta with Google app v16.23.69. AssembleDebug / Android Authority However, the ability to search past conversation

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Google Discover may finally stop hiding the links it shares (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-13 11:34:25

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Earlier this year, Google implemented automatic link shortening for stories shared through Discover. If you’d rather keep the full URL intact, it looks like Google is developing an option to disable the shorteners. Right now we’re able to activate an early preview of the toggle, but it’s not yet operational. Google is absolutely no stranger when it comes to controversies, but they don’t have to all be big “federal antitrust case” scale for us to take not

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Gemini overlay tries out a new look with a splash of Google colors (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-13 19:46:24

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A teardown of the Google app’s recent beta shows Gemini’s overlay UI may soon adopt Google’s brand colors. It replaces Gemini’s current two-tone colors with Google’s trademark red, blue, green, and yellow colors. The colors accent the mic button and highlight the chat box for interacting with Gemini. Google has gradually refined how Gemini appears over the past few months. The assistant’s interface has become more polished, and more integrated, with feat

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These are the subscriptions I actually don’t mind paying for

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-14 09:00:58

Andy Walker / Android Authority No one likes paying for something more than once, but subscriptions have become an annoying yet necessary part of life. Some are hard to justify, but others add value to my life. Whether they provide consumable content, weather information, or critical navigation data, these are the subscriptions I don’t mind paying for: How many subscription services and apps are you currently paying for? 281 votes None. 14 % 1-4. 60 % 5-9. 20 % 10 or more. 5 % FlightRadar24

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I’ve been using Google Photos for 10 years and this is what I want to see in the next 10 years

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-14 04:30:52

Joe Maring / Android Authority I’m as cynical as the next tech writer about Big Tech’s trajectory, but I’ve always had a soft spot for Google Photos. The app recently turned ten years old, and I’ve been there every step of the way, although it certainly took me a while to discover its full potential. Many retrospectives have been written about how the app has evolved from its launch in 2015, but I’ve been thinking more about what the next decade holds. As good as the app is, here’s what I’d lik

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First look: The Pixel Camera is next to get a Material 3 Expressive redesign (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-16 16:54:53

Ryan Haines / Android Authority Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has revealed that the Pixel Camera app will receive a redesign. The redesign currently extends to the settings menu and offers an overhaul in line with the Material 3 Expressive design language. This comes after we discovered a slew of other Google apps with an overhauled visual style. Google just launched Android 16, but the platform’s big visual overhaul based on Material 3 Expressive is co

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Google Contacts could soon let you control clutter from third-party apps (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-18 11:19:52

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR Google Contacts could soon allow users to show or hide read-only contacts synced from connected apps. The new feature aims to help users troubleshoot issues like duplicated contacts by revealing otherwise hidden view-only entries. Most users likely won’t need this enabled, but the switch offers better visibility for those who occasionally need it. Google Contacts is in the limelight for the new Pixel VIPs widget, but Google has other features in the pi

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Google may declutter Gemini’s compose box with a new Tools button (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-18 15:07:37

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR The Gemini interface on Android may soon get a new tools button for Gemini’s Canvas, Deep Research, and Video tools. Currently, shortcuts for these tools appear within the text box next to the microphone and Gemini Live buttons. With an upcoming update, Google may replace these shortcuts with a single “Tools” button. Google is prepping a minor tweak for the Gemini interface on Android to give it a cleaner look. We’ve spotted the change in the latest Goog

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Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (June 11)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-18 16:30:38

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we’ll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they’ll be optimized for various screens. For the newest wall

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Samsung could shake up its audio lineup with two new earbuds (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-18 16:32:26

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung is likely working on two new earbud models: the Galaxy Buds Core and the Galaxy Buds 3 FE. The Galaxy Buds Core may succeed the Galaxy Buds FE, potentially skipping the “Galaxy Buds 2 FE/Galaxy Buds FE 2” name. Based on the model numbers, the Galaxy Buds 3 FE could further extend the lineup even though the Buds 2 FE don’t exist. Samsung makes some great earbuds that complement Galaxy devices very well. The last new product launched in the Gala

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Latest Tech News

Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (July 2)

Here’s a first look at the Google Personal Safety app’s Expressive redesign (APK teardown)

Gallery: Check out Samsung’s new watch faces for the Galaxy Watch 8 (APK teardown)

Check out Gemini’s new avatar in Google colors ahead of its official rollout (APK teardown)

Gemini Live looks like it’s getting ready to work with all your favorite apps (APK teardown)

Happy hour with Gemini: How I built my perfect summer bartender

Use Xfinity Mobile on a Pixel phone? You may be getting a Wi-Fi Speed Boost (APK teardown)

Delivery message alerts could be coming to Now Brief (APK teardown)

Pixel phones might finally be getting this highly requested feature in India (APK teardown)

Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (June 25)

Google Password Manager is getting a Material 3 Expressive glow up (APK teardown)

Spotify’s much hated ‘Create’ button could soon go away, if you want it to (APK teardown)

Your Android phone could soon buzz when your Fitbit is charged (APK teardown)

Gemini’s homescreen could take this idea from its biggest rival (APK teardown)

Google Messages will help you shame your friends into finally turning on RCS (APK teardown)

Spotify may finally let you import music without jumping through hoops (APK teardown)

Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (June 18)

Gemini’s new video analysis feature is here, but there’s more coming (APK teardown)

Finding the right editing tool in Google Photos is about to get easier (APK teardown)

Samsung’s next foldables could arrive with a Google AI Pro freebie (APK teardown)

Gemini preps a ‘Saved info’ rebrand as work on chat history search continues (Updated: Beta)

Google Discover may finally stop hiding the links it shares (APK teardown)

Gemini overlay tries out a new look with a splash of Google colors (APK teardown)

These are the subscriptions I actually don’t mind paying for

I’ve been using Google Photos for 10 years and this is what I want to see in the next 10 years

First look: The Pixel Camera is next to get a Material 3 Expressive redesign (APK teardown)

Google Contacts could soon let you control clutter from third-party apps (APK teardown)

Google may declutter Gemini’s compose box with a new Tools button (APK teardown)

Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (June 11)

Samsung could shake up its audio lineup with two new earbuds (APK teardown)

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