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Google is optimizing the Android apps for the smartphones with the introduction of new features or improving the older ones. But you can not say the same for the tablet apps until recently, the company had shown interest in the form factor by making any given tablet pretty much an over-sized Android phone. With Android 12L, Google has taken interest in form factor and ahead of Pixel tablet launch in 2023. The company is not slowing down and has released an update that makes Google Lens very intuitive for large screens.
Google app was updated to v13.19 on beta channel , letting Google Lens work in landscape orientation on tablets. The landscape version of Lens covers all the horizontal space to display content so that viewing results from filters like Search or Homework is less convoluted. The landscape capability of Lens is limited to tablets which means that phones remains in portrait mode only.

Few days ago Twitter claimed that only 5% of its userbase is made up of spam and fake accounts which is a major factor in determining the value of Twitter as a company. The CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk has responded to this claim by saying that his acquisition of Twitter is on hold at the moment but he is still committed.
Now Elon Musk has once again tweeted that more than 20% of Twitter’s userbase is made up of fake accounts. This is 4 times higher than Twitter’s original claim and it could be much higher than that. Elon Musk is now asking Twitter for proof that shows only 5% of userbase is fake. This means that Musk can leverage a better deal than his original offer at $44 billion but it remains to be seen. He is threatening to stop the acquisition deal until the CEO of Twitter actually clears the air regarding the fake accounts. He said that he could seek to pay lower price for Twitter while talking about the fake account concerns.

YouTube Music and main YouTube app experience are knit together closely. You can play your YouTube based playlists on Music app and whatever you like on an app will affect your recommendations. YouTube Music fulfills most of the listening requirements and it also comes with a feature to watch the music videos right from it without logging onto full app. Normally we watch the music videos on full YT app but if you want to switch quickly over YouTube Music when watching music video. Google has added more shortcuts for you to do exactly the the same.
When you are watching the music video on YouTube if the song is available in YouTube Music audio only-format, you will get a prompt to instantly jump to the app. The shortcut is located inside the player’s view to the left of autoplay toggle and will be noticeable since its full YouTube Music icon. When you will tap it it will begin playing the song which you are listening to inside YouTube Music app. There is a similar toggle in the video’s Settings overflow screen located right below ‘Watch in VR’ option.

Navigation of the apps and notifications on your Android phone has become pretty much smarter and easier. Smart replies has made instant responses easy to send and for the ones who use Google Messages, it is a quick tap to keep anyone off your back while you are busy. But Google is aware that can be done with predictive behavioral suggestions and it looks like some developers need to put it into action.
The current user-facing text explains the shortcuts are triggered when the apps reads the phone numbers, dates and other data that may require to be remembered for later. Starred messages could receive priority in Messages’s home view while times or dates could prompt users to jot down calendar appointment or the reminder. Google Messages has been learning in its attempts to provide automatic context to threads of users, sorting them into different categories like for personal communications, donations and one-time passwords.

YouTube Music has got only an app for Wear OS since the last fall, launching years after the service replaced Play Music which is Google’s Spotify competitor. With the latest update, users can access their favorite albums as well as songs. The latest version of YouTube Music has got new tile highlighting anything that has been recently played from your library. As with all of the other Wear OS tiles you can access it by swiping right from your selected watch face once it is added to your collection.
By tapping on the highlighted album or a song immediately starts playback and when you select ‘Browse’ open the app directly. If you are listening to something you will miss out on ‘Browse’ button and the tile will serve as shortcut to your ‘New Playing’ page. If you are annoyed of opening the app on your wrist it is a very useful shortcut for resuming all of your favorite tunes. It is coming up as part of YouTube Music v5.06.40 on WearOS.

TikTok has to be the biggest social media phenomenon of 2020s. It was originally known as Musical.ly and it has brought the resurgence of the short video format after the rise and fall of Vine in the previous decade. TikTok has also spawned many clones and one of them is YouTube Shorts, a section of YouTube that focuses on videos which are less than minute in length. As it is getting popular so Google has decided to add some more feature similar to TikTok. The latest one of them is green screen.
As announced by YouTube, the new Green Screen feature is the newest way of remixing a video on YouTube Shorts. You can use it on any of the existing YouTube video or short and a photo or video in your gallery and record yourself with whatever color that is being keyed out. You can use or mute audio from original source. The end product will be a Short video so it has to be 60 seconds or less.
In order to use this feature all you have to do is to head over to Create > Green Screen under any video which you are watching, or you can look for the option in 3-dot menu in your Short view. It is on iOS at the moment and Android users will get it in coming months. At the moment most of the Shorts is nothing but TikTok reuploads so by adding the creator features to the app could boost growth of an exclusive community of creators.

Captions are considered as one of the most handy features as we are not always in a position where we can hear the audio of any video and captions can save your day in that regard. With captions you can watch a video even your phone is muted. The company has confirmed that YouTube is now doubling down on captions adding the transcripts and auto-translations for videos you watch on your phone.
When it comes to transcripts, they will be auto-generated by using Google speech recognition models like automatic captions with added difference that allow you to read them down in the list from similar to auto-transcripts in Google Recorder app. Like auto-captions dont expect these to work flawlessly especially when it launches. It works brilliantly in Google Recorder but videos can be more of mixed bag and you may get either perfect transcripts or really low quality depending on the video.
Now you can have auto-translated captions and it works exactly the way you are thinking. If a video has got captions you can go into settings and tap on Auto-translate and select your preferred language and then you will have subtitles adapted to your language. This feature is available for long time on web version but its arrival on mobile version is long overdue. Auto-translated captions will be available in 16 languages initially with Ukrainian language joining the list next month.