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After being spotted in progress with previous releases, the universal device search is now live in Android 12 Beta 5 within the Pixel Launcher app drawer. The feature has been a notable omission from previous Android 12 beta builds but has been spotted several times ahead of the Release Candidate becoming available for users. We had wondered if the feature would be made available ahead of the…

The latest “Doodle” to grace the Google.com homepage is dedicated to Tim Bergling, the Swedish musician better known as Avicii, for what would’ve been his 32nd birthday. Tim Bergling was born on September 8, 1989, in Stockholm, Sweden, and by the age of 8 he was mixing tracks in his room. Not long after producing some of his first tracks at 16, he was signed to his first record label…

Google recently added a new feature to Pixel smartphones that is designed to retain battery health by limiting charging in certain circumstances. Now, in Android 12, Google is expanding this limit so your Pixel will limit charging when the phone is overheating. As it stands today, Google Pixel phones will automatically stop charging and limit battery capacity to 80% when the phone has been on a…

The long road to a stable Android 12 release is punctuated by the preview phase and the very latest is Beta 5. An already stacked OS is getting yet more tweaks and refinements before it’s ready for the public, and so we’ve been delving into Android 12 Beta 5 to find all the new features and functions. You have had it drummed in that Android 12 is going to provide one of the biggest updates…