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

Twitter has been at the center stage for all the good as well as bad reasons. People have the idea about the bad part so we will only focus on the good part here. Twitter has improved over past few months with the introduction of some new features like bottom bar customizations and automatically generated video captions to name a few. Now there is another impressive sounding addition is on its way.
Twitter now plays chirping sounds when users pull down their feeds to refresh. When you pull it down a windup trill plays and when you let it go it plays a chirp sound. Both of these sounds are bird-sounding and complement Twitter’s vibe. Previous refresh sound was a bit boring pop. Users hope that more sounds throughout the UI will get replaced with cuter ones.

WhatsApp launched the message reactions in chats a couple of months ago. The stakeholders were late in introducing this feature with Telegram delivering the feature last December. On the other hand social media giant Instagram supported emoji reactions for much longer. But now WhatsApp developers are taking it very seriously as there is a huge expansion of emoji options for reactions. Now the Meta-owned entity is testing some of new previews for reaction of the message within the chat list.
According to WABetaInfo, the feature can not be disabled even if you turn off reaction notifications from the app’s settings. The message reaction previews are available only for handful of WhatsApp beta testers. If you are part of WhatsApp beta via Google Play beta program, you can check to see if you have got access to the new interface.

Story posting concept for 24 hours was first introduced by Snapchat which was later copied by Instagram, and then all the other apps which you can think of. Meta, added the stories to not just to Instagram and Facebook but also to WhatsApp where you can find it in the Status tab. At the moment you can post photos, GIFs, videos and text messages to your status but soon you will get access to voice messages.
WhatsApp is working on an option to allow its users to record and upload voice messages to their WhatsApp status. Once the feature will be live, the app will allow you to record voice message just like you do in a chat. You will also be able to upload any existing audio file. Voice recordings in status updates would be shared with your WhatsApp contacts by using same privacy settings you use for the photos and videos.

Foldable phones have once again pushed themselves into the mainstream. While they are still expensive than the smartphones with a non-foldable display. Even Google has started to come with foldables and larger screen in general with Android 12L. Google’s own rumored foldable won’t be a thing for some time, the company is not waiting around to show interest in these phones which is visible with Gboard’s new split layout which is currently rolling out for beta users.
The new layout of Gboard is starting to make its way to the beta testers. If you are enrolled and you take the latest update, you should get access to new split layout that divides keyboard in two, letting the users with wider screens to reach all keys easily. The ‘G’ and ‘V’ keys which are located on the center of the keyboard in regular layout are duplicated, so you have got your choice of hitting them on either side, Gboard will know which screen you are using if you are swapping between cover and main displays.