Apple just gave an overhaul to its accessibility landing page to better highlight the native features in macOS and iOS that allow user’s devices to “work the way you do” and encourage everyone to “make something wonderful.” Now a new interview with Apple’s accessibility and AI/ML engineers goes into more detail on the company’s approach to improving accessibility with iOS 14.
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Google Maps will let you pin frequent destinations, transit routes with new ‘Go’ tab
December 4, 2020
Google launched a big Maps redesign in February and just this week introduced a new Community feed. Google Maps is now getting a simple but very useful “Go” tab on Android and iOS.
The new Google Maps “Go” tab subsumes today’s “Commute” section and…
Back in August, Google introduced a native system for quickly sharing text, links, and images across its devices. Nearby Share will soon let you send Android apps to people near you.
The process starts with the sender visiting the “Manage Apps & Games” page in the…
Today, only the top books get audio versions narrated by professionals given that recording is a time-consuming process that doesn’t necessarily scale to every published work. Google is now working on auto-generated narrators that turn any book into an audiobook.
This feature is intended to benefit the Google Play Books store by making many more audio titles, with their inherent convenience…
Android Auto expands to more countries in Europe, Indonesia, more — here’s the full list
December 4, 2020
Google’s Android Auto platform has become a standard part of many new cars, much to the benefit of users. Now, Google is expanding where Android Auto is officially available, opening the platform up to quite a few new countries across the continent of Europe and…
Google has baked some very useful accessibility features into the Android operating system over the years, and one of the most recent is “Voice Access.” That feature was supercharged with the debut of Android 11, and now those additional features are being brought to…
Besides voice commands, the key aspect of Google Assistant headphones is having incoming notifications read aloud. Google now looks to have brought this Assistant feature to any pair of wired headphones, regardless of whether they’ve been optimized by the manufacturer.
Plugging in USB-C or 3.5mm headphones to an Android device running the latest version of the Google app results in the…
Google fully shuts down Play Music around the world
December 4, 2020
Google started shutting down its legacy streaming service around the world in October. Google Play Music is now officially dead for all users.
Visiting music.google.com or the Android and iOS app today will direct you to a “Google Play Music is no longer available”…
Google Fiber ‘2 Gig’ launches in two cities, includes custom-developed Wi-Fi 6 ‘Multi-Gig Router’
December 4, 2020
In September, Google Fiber announced a ‘2 Gig’ tier, and it’s now widely available in Huntsville and Nashville. As part of this, a Wi-Fi 6 Google Fiber Multi-Gig Router is provided to customers.
In recent years, Google Fiber has moved to just offer a single “1…
Google has upgraded its Street View app on Android to allow you to capture and submit your own Street View photos with nothing more than your phone.
While the majority of Google Maps’ Street View is powered by images taken by their dedicated camera cars, Google has allowed citizens of the world to contribute their own photos to Street View… provided you had the necessary 360-degree camera…
