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You might have missed it, but the virtual keypad you use to enter phone numbers in your smartphone's dialer and contacts app isn't all numbers. Take a closer look, and you'll notice a few mysterious buttons you've likely been tuning out unconsciously. But it's time to stop ignoring them because each has a particular purpose that could come in handy one day. Whether you have an iPhone or Android phone, these mysterious buttons appear in your phone and contacts app, among other places. However, most of these puzzling keys aren't explained by Apple, Google, Samsung, and other device brands. If... more http://dlvr.it/SrLpQl

Text messaging is a core component of the mobile experience, and Google has added several AI-fueled features to help you text better, such as Smart Reply for quick response suggestions. But Messages by Google's newest AI-powered tool is possibly the best one yet, giving you improved response suggestions and your own personal copyeditor to fix all your message drafts. Thanks to Google's big push into the generative AI battlefield, we now have Magic Compose in the Messages by Google app. The new GenAI-powered feature can create suggested replies on your behalf based on the context of the... more http://dlvr.it/Sr878j

The cinematic photos feature in Google Photos can create impressive three-dimensional views of normally flat images, turning ordinary pictures into life-like representations of the moment captured. Google Photos would automatically pick images from your library to apply the effect to. Now, you can choose images on demand from your library — it's just not super obvious that you can. Google Photos uses artificial intelligence to create cinematic photos, analyzing and predicting an image's depth using machine learning, even if the original image has no embedded depth information. It turns the... more http://dlvr.it/SqlHz8

While the iPhone came before the first Android smartphone, every new iOS version seems to include a wealth of features already existing on Android, and iOS 17 is no exception. Apple's currently beta testing iOS 17 with developers, with a public beta coming in July and a stable release in September most likely. Quite a few features are coming to iPhones this fall that currently work on Android or did at some point. And while all the new features listed below will work on iOS 17, many will also work on iPadOS 17 and macOS Sonoma. Keep reading to see everything Apple borrows from Google's... more http://dlvr.it/SqbG18

Apple's upcoming iOS 17 is expected to include many new features first seen on Android, but there are also some exciting, unique features that Android needs to steal pronto. It's common practice for Apple to adopt new features for iOS that were first seen on Android, but the same can be said of Google, which has integrated numerous bells and whistles on Android from iOS as well. Case in point: Apple added a lock screen and wallpaper customization engine on iOS 16. Lo and behold, Android 14 will debut the same functionality (with some new wrinkles, such as AI-generated wallpapers, for good... more http://dlvr.it/SqPHBk

Taking a cue from Apple and its Health app for iOS, Google has created a central hub to collect health and fitness data on your Android device. With it, you can share and sync health and fitness data, such as steps, heart rate, water intake, sleep quality, and calories burned, between different apps and devices and use your favorite app to view all the information. Google's new health and fitness service, Health Connect, is still in beta but widely accessible on Android devices. Once installed, it dramatically improves how your ecosystem of health and fitness apps work together while... more http://dlvr.it/Sp5CvL

For all intents and purposes, Google could have called its 2023 developer conference A/I instead of I/O. Capitalizing on the artificial intelligence hype, Google devoted most of its keynote address to AI research, experiments, and developments. But there's some substance behind the hype in the form of new features in the Google services you already use on Android, iOS, and desktop. We've rounded up the ten most interesting AI-powered features you can use now and in the near future across Google apps and services. 1. Bard Google has lifted the waitlist for Bard, its experimental AI chatbot... more http://dlvr.it/Snvc6Y