So it's announced by Google now and ready to roll out on Android & iOS

https://twitter.com/googlephotos/status/1716863878980907393

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#GooglePhotos

Google Photos working on a Photo Stack feature.

According to strings which I found in Google Photos -

• "Photo stacks automatically groups similar photos that were taken together."

• "Turn on photo stacks to organize similar photos that were taken together."

• "Change top pick or edit stack"

• "Manage photo stacks anytime"

There will be a setting in the preference screen of Google Photos for this feature making it easier to turn it on/off.

Found it in the Google Photos Version 6.59. Not sure when it will be rolled out. No luck with flags for now.

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#GoogleDrive

Google Drive Android App is preparing for a more advanced file search with a new UI

Read about it on my blog (few more screenshots)

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#GoogleDrive #Flags

Enable the new advance file search UI in Google Drive [Root]

Flip the following flag using GappsMod -

📦 Package - com.google.apps.drive.android#com.google.android.apps.docs

🏳️ Flag -
• SearchPreworkFeature__enable_search_prework
• SearchUserLoveFeature__enable_search_dynamic_query_formulation

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#GooglePlayServices

With the recent update of Google Play Services, there are various flags of Google apps missing from the Phenotype database. As a result, some feature flags which I shared in channel are completely disappeared and can not be turned on/off with GappsMod app.

Google Play Store doesn't seems to be affected by this as it uses its own Phenotype database.

Better hope this is some kind of bug because if it's something intentional from Google side, it is going to be more hard to find flags and new features in Google apps. ;_;

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#GPSU

A bunch of changes added in GPSU changelog which will be rolling out with Play Store Version 38.2 on Phone & WearOS

Available on Apkmirror

• [Phone] You can now decide if Google Play can update an app that was installed by a different app store.

• [Wear] Users can now install and set watch faces directly from the Play store listing and opt in to always automatically set watchfaces upon install.

• [Phone] Users will see the contents in the SERP as “cards” which should help differentiate organic results from other elements.

• [Wear] Warning messages are now visible on detail pages for apps that are prone to crashes.

• [Phone] Some users will be presented with an option to tell the Play Store about the categories of games they are interested in.

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#GoogleChrome

Chrome on Android will no longer support Android Nougat

According to Chrome Enterprise and Education release notes page, last version of Chrome that supports Android Nougat is Chrome 119, and it includes a message to affected users informing them to upgrade their operating system.

Chrome 120 will not support nor ship to users running Android Nougat.

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#GoogleChrome

Google Chrome will be able to restore your PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) on your new Android devices

I spotted some commits on GitHub Chromium repo which gives us a hint of how its going to work.

Read more on my blog - https://thespandroid.blogspot.com/2023/11/Google-Chrome-PWA-Restore.html?m=1

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#Magisk

Magisk v26.4 Released

Changelog -
• [MagiskBoot] Don’t pad zeros if signed boot image is larger
• [MagiskPolicy] Fix genfscon and filename_trans
• [MagiskPolicy] Fix bug in libsepol
• [Zygisk] Fix and simplify file denoscriptor sanitization logic
• [App] Prevent OOM when patching AP tarfiles
• [App] Fix bug in device configuration detection
• [Daemon] Fix certificate parsing of APKs
• [General] Fix logging errors from C++ code being ignored

Download or update from Magisk App if you have it already installed - https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases

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#GooglePhotos

Photo Stack - First look at the upcoming Google Photos feature [Video]

I shared about this feature when I found some strings in Google Photos. Managed to enable in newer version 6.60 of Google Photos.

Read on my blog - https://thespandroid.blogspot.com/2023/11/Photo-Stack-Feature-In-Google-Photos-First-Look.html?m=1

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#GPSU

November 2023

Google Play Store v38.3 (2023-11-06) - Changelog
• [Phone] Makes your search results experience better by showing an icon that will take you right to the app or game.
• [Phone] New feature to help you uninstall apps on connected devices. (Shared about it back in September
• [Phone] Updated design for Google Play Protect information cards.
• [Phone] Added a prompt to remind you to enable notifications when pre-registering for an app.

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In this blog post, I talked about the Photo Stack being limited to 2 photos only. Turns out I was wrong. It can stack more than 2 photos. :)

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🤦‍♂️ 18+

Probably Google Workspace users already have access to this new assistant but needs to be enabled by admins.

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