Earlier this year, Google previewed new layout for Gmail with deeper Chat, Spaces and Meet integration. Initially, the big G made redesign available on an opt-in basis i.e. you need to switch to integrated view manually. After this in late June a new Gmail look with Material You coating was released. The new layout has got a sidebar located on the left side that allows you to jump between your inbox, Chat, Meet, Spaces and conversation bubbles for ongoing chats.
If you don’t need other services you can head over to Quick Settings menu to toggle the apps displayed on sidebar. You can only use Gmail and disable other services in which you are not interested in. Apart from visual refresh, Google is making Gmail search more powerful. With search chips, you can narrow search results which will help you instantly find mail that you are looking for. Google has announced that Gmail’s search is improved with ‘contextual contact suggestions with intent matching for names as well as email addresses.

Over the past few years, smartwatches have come of their own, shedding their awesome pedometer with apps image and evolving into health trackers. Each and every one need to deliver actionable health data whether that means monitoring the blood oxygen content or detecting atrial fibrillation. Samsung has packed loads of sensors into its Galaxy Watch4 and has recently published results of study by demonstrating smartwatch’s efficacy at detecting symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea.
In a study that was conducted by Samsung Medical Center, the Galaxy Watch4 was used to monitor blood oxygen levels of 97 adults with sleep disturbances. Each SpO2 level of the subject was measured with Galaxy Watch and conventional medical equipment by the researchers at the same time. They compared the former’s oxygendesaturation index measurement to the latter’s apnea-hypopnea index. The experiment of Samsung pitted the Galaxy Watch4’s reflectance pulse oximeter’s accuracy against medical-grade transmittance pulse oximeter. The former’s sensor comprises of eight photodiodes sensitive to the changes reflected light.

Snapchat has not been accessible on any device other than smartphones even though all of its competitors have had the web versions for quite some time now. But now Snapchat has also announced that they are coming up with a eb version for its users.
Snapchat for Web will allow you to log into your account and chat with your friends. You can also call your friends from the desktop. Snapchat Plus subscribers will have access to all these features first. Snapchat Plus is a recently announced premium tiers for Snapchat that allows you to have access to exclusive features like Story Watch Indicator, icons, custom themes and many more. But there are some restrictions in Snapchat for Web that it only works with Google Chrome and it does not support Apple’s Safari browser. It will also work with other browsers based on Chromium engine like MS Edge, Brave, Opera and many others.

Facebook has come up with new Feed tab and it will allow you to find the most recent posts from your friends, favorites, groups and pages. The primary tab which opens when you open the app has now been named as Home. Home tab will allow you to view reels, stories as well as some other content through recommendations.
The Home tab has become a discovery engine that lets its users to connect with new creators and content. Home tab is based on Artificial Intelligence in order to serve recommended content. As for as feeds is concerned, it will allow you to access latest post of your friends, communities as well as groups that you are connected with. There are no ads and recommendations on the feed tab. You can apply different filters in order to sort the content. These filters will allow you to find latest content of your favorites, pages, groups and friends. You can access the feed tab from the shortcut bar. For iOS the shortcut bar is located at the bottom of the app whereas on Android, it will be located on the top. The shortcut bar will arrange the tabs depending upon the ones you use the most but you can change this order by pinning the tabs.

Android is eager to take you to an amazing journey of music playing but what you do if you do not want to keep it playing forever. You can use various automation apps like Tasker or can install a 3rd party app. But the best option is to have a native sleep timer. YouTube Music will soon be equipped with sleep timer thus making it ideal friend during the breaks, workouts or whenever you need to listen for so long.
In a latest update to YouTube Music has added support for new Android 13 media player. In addition to the visible changes there is also work on new functionality behind the scenes. Google Play Music has featured a sleep timer so that music can be paused automatically at preset user-defined time. The option was available in main settings menu but it was not the simplest one to get to and then use.

Google Photos is one of the most famous services for the backup of the gallery among the Android users. Now it has recently received a steady stream of updates and enhancements. It has brought the features like Real Tone filters, chip shortcuts and home screen shortcut for your screenshots. The latest development to Photos adds new element to the information section for the images thus making it very easy to tell each file’s backed up resolution as well as size.
When you are accessing your Photos backup by using a web browser, select an image and click on ‘I’ button. You will see EXIF data for upload, including filename, day and date of capturing. Location, camera used and settings. It mentions the backup quality either the Storage saver or Original quality and whether file is taking up space in your account storage. Google in the past allowed Pixel users unlimited high quality image backups but that was changed in January 2022. If you are running out of the cloud storage on your Google account you can use ‘Manage storage’ option in Google Photos for removing blurry photos, large videos and unnecessary screenshots.

WhatsApp keeps coming up with new features with each passing day. The latest inclusion has been emoji message reactions and the subsequent expansion of available emoji. One of the under development feature is the ability to add a voice message to your WhatsApp status. But that is not only the single change coming to the status page, though with the latest beta release showing work towards ability to reply to users’ status updates with instant reactions like Instagram.
Users can react to status updates with eight emoji which include heart, sadness, laughter, gratitude, shock and the usual celebratory or congratulatory moods. The recipient of the reactions will see emoji as a reply to their status update. This is not the major update but the users of Facebook and Instagram will feel familiar