While we wait for Android 12 to officially go live later this year, Google has a bunch of tweaks and updates coming to Android this spring.
Following the 2019 update to Chrome, Google is now bringing Password Checkup to Android to help alert you about potential leaks or data breaches that may have exposed your existing passwords to hackers. Password Checkup will be rolling out to devices with Android 9 and above, and will automatically check passwords already saved in Android along with any new ones. If Google detects that your password has been exposed, you’ll get an alert strongly suggesting you change it.
Secret key Checkup is significant, yet we should get down to the great stuff: Google Maps is at last getting the hotly anticipated authority dull mode. What’s more, in Google Messages on Android 7 or more, Google is adding the capacity to send planned messages, like Gmail’s booked email highlight. You should simply compose a message as ordinary, and afterward hold the send button, which causes another menu to show up permitting you to set a specific time for when your content will go out.
Indeed, even the Google Assistant is getting a little update, with the capacity to settle on decisions, set clocks and cautions, and play music on your telephone utilizing voice orders. This implies your Android telephone can now sort of twofold as a savvy speaker, and extends the job of the Google Assistant as something that just answers inquiries with these extra robotization highlights.
Android Auto is additionally getting an invigorate. Google added new vehicle roused foundations and voice-actuated games like Jeopardy to help those long travels pass by somewhat quicker. What’s more, to help make things like contacts simpler to get to, Google is additionally adding easy routes to Android Auto, and vehicles with widescreen shows get another part screen mode so you can see Google Maps and your media controls simultaneously.
Finally, for folks who are blind or have low vision, Google is also releasing a new version of its Talkback app featuring a redesigned menu, more intuitive gesture recognition, improved reading controls, and more.
Google’s new Android software updates will start rolling out today, with Talkback version 9.1 available now in the Google Play store and the update to Android Auto expected to be available “in the coming days.”
