Android’s Photo Picker will support local and cloud search later this year. Currently, Android’s Photo Picker only sorts your gallery via albums, which you can’t even search through. This update was ...

Android’s native Photo Picker will soon let you search through your Google Photos library. Although announced last year for a 2024 release, the search feature is finally being tested, hinting at an ...

Google’s June 2026 Android system updates add WhatsApp backup controls, Play Protect checks, passkey portability, and Play ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

With Android 16 QPR1 Beta 2, the Pixel Launcher search bar is getting a redesign to match the Google app’s updated homescreen widget. This redesign basically shrinks the old search bar (with the ‘G’ ...

Google has been offering users the ability to search for what’s on their phone’s screen for many years. In this time—going from the What’s on My Screen feature (introduced in 2018) to its replacement, ...

Spotlight-like search powers ...

Google has decided to slightly redesign its Search widget on Android. Material 3 influence is palpable here, though it’s not a huge change from what we’ve had before. It’s taller and has containers ...

I've been writing about Android since 2011, with a focus on device reviews, Samsung and Google Pixel hardware, and the latest happenings in the ecosystem. In my entire writing career, I've reviewed ...

After a brief beta period, Arc Search for Android is now officially available to all via the Google Play Store, with a number of new features. Designed with a native ad blocker built-in and with AI at ...

Gemini, Schmemini: Google's Circle to Search system can perform all sorts of phenomenal feats for you — and it's right there and waiting for you to notice. With Google’s annual I/O gala in full force ...