#GoogleContacts

Google Contacts Minor UI revamp and new feature to view messages on widgets

📝 Read - https://thespandroid.blogspot.com/2024/02/Google-Contacts-Messages-on-w.html

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#GooglePhotos

Here is the first look at the document categories changing feature.

a few weeks ago, I shared about Google Photos getting a new category feature. This will allow changing categories of the images which are automatically categorised by Google Photos.

You will see a chip on the top left of the image, tapping it will show two options, one of them is "Change categories", tapping on which shows a category selector page. Here you can change categories (multiple as well).

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So there has been some news going on around about Google blocking RCS messages on custom rom which fails some checks necessary for passing play integrity.

I have personally never faced this issue before until I updated my Google Messages beta version today. And the funny thing is - the same issue started happening on older builds of Google Messages as well. The RCS registration is not an issue on any version, it works fine.

This feels like a bug in RCS, rather than Google enforcing Play Integrity for RCS.

If you are on a custom ROM and affected by this, please comment with the Google Message version.

If you have working RCS currently, one thing you can do is to wipe data of Google Messages and then setup again to check if RCS messages fail to send or it still works.

Alright, this shit is real. You need to pass basic & device integrity in order to send & receive RCS messages, registration is not affected though. (I have tested various things but none of them worked)

People already say that RCS is shit & unreliable, Google added one more reason in the list of why it is. 😁

#Google

New contextual buttons in Google App

Looks like Google has started testing this new UI more widely in beta version of Google App - 15.8.38.29.arm64

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#GooglePlayServices

Google is making it easier to share passwords on Android through Google Password Manager

• Flag is shared in post for rooted users :p

📝 Read - https://thespandroid.blogspot.com/2024/03/Password-Sharing-Android-GMS.html?m=1

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#GoogleDrive

Google is rolling out the new enhanced search UI in Google Drive on iOS (coming to Android soon)

I spotted this new search UI back in October 2023 on Android - https://thespandroid.blogspot.com/2023/10/Google-drive-.html?m=1

Shared flags - https://news.1rj.ru/str/GappsLeaks/288

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#GoogleDocs

Google Docs markup feature

I spotted this back in August 2023 and Google announced this a week ago at MWC 2024-

✓ https://news.1rj.ru/str/GappsLeaks/92

✓ https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/02/new-ways-to-annotate-google-docs.html?m=1


More features in Pixel March Feature drop - https://blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-feature-drop-march-2024/#pixel-portfolio

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#Gmail

A few weeks ago I shared about Gmail's "Draft emails with voice" feature. Google has tweaked the UI a little bit and instead of having a separate UI for voice recording, they are adding the voice recording button inside the prompt input box.

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#PlayStore

Google Play Store will let you download multiple apps at once (again!)

Read on my blog - https://thespandroid.blogspot.com/2024/03/Google-Play-Store-Parallel-Downloads.html

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I have updated the blog post to include the flags for rooted users.

#PlayStore #Flags

Since many people were asking for the flag to change the parallel install limit of 2 apps in the Play Store, here is the flag (root required), you can set the value as you like (10 or 20 or 69) -

Package - com.google.android.finsky.regular

Flag (integer)-
InstallerV2__user_expedited_installs_parallelism_capacity

You might need to add it manually.

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#GoogleContacts

Google Contacts simplifies showing your contact's numbers from other apps

Read - https://thespandroid.blogspot.com/2024/03/google-contacts-simplifies-showing.html

If you are rooted and can't wait for the rollout, then you can enable it with the following flag -

Package -
com.google.android.contacts#com.google.android.contacts

Flag - 45460760

Required contacts version - 4.26

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How about an app called Tiktok Photos ? 🫣

#Tiktok

Exclusive: Tiktok is working on a new Photo Sharing platform to compete with Instagram

Read - https://thespandroid.blogspot.com/2024/03/Tiktok-Photo-Sharing-Platform.html

(I know most of you don't like Tiktok, so make this the most downvoted post in this channel 🥲)

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