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Archives for August 2024

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Windows 11 adds your Android phone to the Share menu.

Following a test in June, Microsoft will now let you send files to your linked Android phone from the Share menu in Windows 11. The update will roll out gradually to users starting today.

Image: Microsoft
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
The Google Pixel Android 15 update won’t arrive until October.

Android Authority spotted a change to the Android Beta Exit release notes that reveals Google won’t be rolling out the update next month.

Android updates typically come in October, but so do new Pixel devices — Google released its Pixel 9 lineup two months earlier than usual, so many people were expecting a September drop for Android 15.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Gmail on Android has a new way to quickly reply to emails.

Just scroll to the bottom of your email, tap on the text box to start drafting your reply, and then tap the send icon to send it off, according to a Google blog post.

The new quick reply experience is live now on personal Google accounts. It’s coming to iOS “later this year,” Google says.

A screenshot of Gmail’s quick reply experience on Android.
Image: Google
Alex Cranz
Alex Cranz
Arc is coming to Android... soon.

If you just got a Pixel 9 and you want to do more than potentially break the long held social contract we all shared around photos than soon you’ll be able to put the excellent Arc browser on it!

Now to patiently wait for extension support in the mobile version of Arc. I’ve been using it on my Mac and iPhone for months and cannot wait to put it on my Pixel and Boox Palma too.

Google Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL review: AI all over the place

The AI is inconsistent, but the hardware is oh so good.

Allison Johnson
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Google Play is axing its Security Reward Program on August 31st.

The program, which paid security researchers up to $20,000 to locate vulnerabilities in popular Android apps, is being shuttered after seven years due to “a decrease in the number of actionable vulnerabilities reported.”

Google last announced in 2019 that it had paid $265,000 in bounties via the program — a fraction of the $10 million it paid out across all vulnerability programs last year.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Chrome for Android is making screen sharing more secure.

As reported by Bleeping Computer, Google is testing a new experimental flag that can hide sensitive content while “screen sharing, screen recording and similar actions” in regular tabs — redacting the user’s entire screen if things like credit card details or passwords are detected.

There’s no mention of a release date, but it should be available for testing in Chrome Canary in the coming weeks.

A screenshot of Google’s new experimental feature for redacting sensitive user data in Chrome for Android.
This should provide some additional protection against accidentally exposing sensitive data.
Image: Google / Bleeping Computer
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Google Assistant gets Siri-ous on Android Auto.

After a recent update, Android Auto now displays a circle with Google Assistant’s trademark four-color bar along its edge when the voice assistant is waiting for a reply from users.

As 9to5Google notes, it bears at least a little resemblance to Siri’s glowing orb, which is set for a glow-up when Apple updates that UI for Apple Intelligence.

Playing Fortnite on iPhone again has shown me an alternate future

Is this the tipping point that causes third-party iOS app stores to take off?

Callum Booth