Google's Android app is finally catching up to the iOS app with one crucial feature

Google is working on adding a new incognito search mode to its Android app.

✅ Details/Screenshots - https://www.androidauthority.com/google-app-android-incognito-mode-3608855/

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Well, this looks nice af.

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Gemini might soon bring a new option to lock the mic so it continues listening until you stop it manually

Some more changes to upcoming Gemini Live overlay and input box

✅ Details and screenshots - https://www.androidauthority.com/google-gemini-mic-lock-3609163/

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Google Wallet now makes adding new cards as effortless using NFC

The "Add a card" screen also getting material expressive design.

✅ Details/Screenshots - https://www.androidauthority.com/google-wallet-update-nfc-cards-3609130/

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Chrome's agentic capabilities powered by Gemini to arrive in December with v143, giving OpenAI's Atlas a head start

✅ Details - https://piunikaweb.com/2025/10/22/chrome-gemini-agentic-features-december-v143/

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The Pixel's Connected Cameras feature is getting an overdue upgrade

You can now use your main device as audio source

✅ Details and screenshots - https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-connected-cameras-feature-upgrade-3609116/

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Google could make it easier to edit images with Nano Banana from the Gemini overlay

✅ Details & more screenshots - https://www.androidauthority.com/google-nano-banana-button-gemini-overlay-3609234/

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Google Home wants to make it much easier to add your next new smart home hardware

The interface is search-based, letting you look up a brand’s app or individual models.

✅ Details & more Screenshots - https://www.androidauthority.com/google-home-setup-3609290/

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Gemini is working on tools to let you highlight the parts of images you're interested in

Highlighting part of an image allows you to direct Gemini’s attention to it for analysis.

✅ Details & more screenshots - https://www.androidauthority.com/gemini-image-markup-3609374/

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Google could be making it easier to see which apps are a threat

Google is working on a new page for its unsafe app detector.

✅ Details - https://www.androidauthority.com/google-live-threat-detection-page-3609356/

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This is fine: Google Photos could soon let you turn yourself into a meme

The feature, currently referred to as “Me Meme” allows users to insert their face into meme templates.

✅ Check details - https://www.androidauthority.com/google-photos-meme-generator-apk-teardown-3609502/

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ChatGPT’s voice mode could soon be moved out of its full-screen UI to become part of chat conversations

So you can follow the conversation in real with with transcripts and interactive visuals like links, maps and weather.

✅ Details & video demo - https://www.androidauthority.com/chatgpt-voice-mode-chat-integration-apk-teardown-3609526/

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Here's the real (and amusing) reason why the Pixel Camera app is crashing on GrapheneOS and other de-Googled systems

👉 https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-camera-play-services-requirement-reason-3609555/

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Google Photos preps for its annual recap, alongside a long-lost navigation feature

The floating navigation bar was last spotted years ago, and it has finally been spotted again

✅ Details and lots of screenshots - https://www.androidauthority.com/google-photos-yearly-recap-floating-navigation-bar-apk-teardown-3609561/

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Google might finally fix the biggest flaw with Android's Calling Cards

Calling Cards offer a great way to customize how incoming calls appear on your own phone.

👉 Details - https://www.androidauthority.com/my-calling-card-3609709/

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Google Photos has started rolling out the new video editor UI with some new feature additions

I spotted this new UI first back in July and you can check all changes there. It may not be available for everyone yet because of staged rollout process.

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Google Clock is solving its wallpaper problem

Other changes -
• Going forward, we may see a new “pulsing” effect for the time on the alarm screen
• Removing references of Google Assistant

✅ Details/Video Demo - https://www.androidauthority.com/google-clock-alarm-wallpaper-3610416/

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Google's working on a Trash folder for Messages

Deleting a message today permanently deletes it right away, but that could change

✅ Details - https://www.androidauthority.com/google-messages-trash-folder-3610484/

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Google Messages' new context menu makes it easier to take actions on messages

Improves accessibility of existing message actions with blur and animations

✅ Details/video demo - https://www.androidauthority.com/google-messages-menu-3610512/

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One UI 8.5 reveals Samsung's classical inspiration for its next earbuds

Samsung is going for Baroque with these Galaxy Buds 4 and Buds 4 Pro codenames

✅ Details - https://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-buds-4-codenames-3610515/

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Pixel Camera's latest version finally works again on GrapheneOS — and no downgrade is needed

Dependency on Google Play Services was causing it to crash and GrapheneOS has added a workaround to fix it.

✅ Details - https://www.androidauthority.com/grapheneos-pixel-camera-crash-fix-3610717/

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