Android’s RCS message capabilities are inching nearer to iMessage’s. Google stated as we speak that you may now edit RCS messages, bringing parity with the iMessage enhancing function Apple added two years in the past.
The brand new enhancing function provides you quarter-hour (the identical as iMessage) to edit a message within the Google Messages app. Maintain down on the message to convey up a textual content field to repair your typos or add further readability.
RCS messages will quickly whittle down the divide between inexperienced and blue bubbles on iOS. Apple stated it could assist RCS within the Messages app beginning in 2024, giving iPhone homeowners typing indicators, learn receipts and high-resolution media sharing when chatting with their Android phone-toting pals. Though Apple hasn’t offered a selected timeline, the belief is RCS will arrive in iOS 18, which we’ll find out about in its June 10 WWDC keynote forward of a fall launch.
Google had just a few different new options to roll out. Android customers with a Chromebook or Android pill will quickly get On the spot Hotspot, much like one other function Apple rolled out years in the past (manner again in 2014 in iOS 8 and macOS Yosemite). “Coming soon, with instant hotspot, you’ll be able to connect your Android tablet or Chromebook to your phone’s hotspot with one tap — without needing to go through the extra step of typing in your password,” Google product director Jan Jedrzejowicz wrote within the firm’s weblog publish asserting the brand new options.
Alongside comparable traces, Google Meet will quickly allow you to shortly transfer units mid-call. You may faucet the Solid icon within the app to modify between an Android telephone, pill or internet browser, which is useful if you wish to swap areas throughout a video chat.
Android can be getting simpler good dwelling controls. A brand new Google Dwelling Favorites widget provides you entry to room temperatures or lighting controls with one faucet. This looks like a extra intuitive placement than the lock display shortcut for good dwelling controls that Google launched in Android 13. You may join a public preview to strive the widget.
As well as, Put on OS will get a Google Dwelling Favorites tile and complication for smart-home management out of your wrist.
Google can be including new Emoji Kitchen mixtures. When you aren’t acquainted with it, the intelligent function permits you to mix two emoji in Gboard to ship franken-moji stickers to pals. The corporate didn’t present an entire checklist of recent choices, however it stated a disco ball and headphones combo was one instance.
Different Android updates embrace utilizing PayPal on Google Pockets from Put on OS watches. Android’s digital automotive keys at the moment are out there with some Mini fashions and can quickly be out there for “select Mercedes-Benz and Polestar vehicles.”