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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways
- The November Pixel driblet is bringing caller features to Pixel phones.
- Users are getting scam protection, notification summaries, and more.
- The features volition commencement rolling retired today.
Heads up, Pixel users, your telephone is getting immoderate beauteous chill caller features for escaped acknowledgment to the November Pixel Drop.
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Not lone are you getting an further furniture of extortion against scams, you're getting a caller mode to marque definite you don't miss messages from important people, a mode to get a summary of a agelong connection thread, immoderate amusive photograph tools, and more. These features volition commencement rolling retired today, Google says, but it mightiness instrumentality a fewer days to scope each users.
What's caller successful the November Pixel Drop?
Let's instrumentality a look astatine what's new.
1. Scam Detection successful messages
Similar to the diagnostic that listens successful connected your calls and alerts you to scams, Google Pixel 6 and newer phones are getting a furniture of extortion for substance scams. When you get a chat notification from fashionable apps (Google didn't specifically sanction which ones) that looks suspicious, you'll spot a "Likely scam" alert that gives you clip to observe fraud.
2. Pixel VIPs upgrade
Staying successful interaction with your important contacts, oregon your Pixel VIPs (if you're not utilizing this diagnostic yet, you really should), is getting a small easier. Your telephone tin present prioritize notifications of messages from your VIPs, making definite you don't miss a message. VIPs besides present person a situation badge successful the Contacts widget to support you posted connected captious alerts.
3. Notification Summaries
If you conscionable privation the TL;DR, your Pixel tin present springiness you a summary of your longer conversations. Google explains that lengthy texts crossed chat apps are easy recapped successful your notification shade, letting you rapidly drawback up connected engaged radical texts and agelong chat threads. These are lone for the Pixel 9 and above.
In addition, Google says that successful December, your Pixel volition assistance further trim notification overwhelm by organizing and silencing lower-priority notifications.
4. Magic Cue gets much timely
Magic Cue was arguably the flagship AI diagnostic erstwhile Google announced the Pixel 10 bid successful August. Now, the context-offering AI diagnostic volition beryllium capable to springiness much timely prompts and suggestions, acknowledgment to a caller Private AI Compute.
It's fundamentally a unreality motor that taps into much caller nationalist accusation to springiness amended responses erstwhile the mounting is right, whether you're successful a substance connection speech oregon telephone call. Note that this inactive lone works connected Pixel 10 models.
5. Remix successful Google Messages
The Remix feature that deed Google Photos implicit the summertime is present disposable successful Google Messages.
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You tin edit oregon reimagine immoderate photograph successful Messages, adjacent successful a radical chat, into assorted styles, specified arsenic anime, comic, 3D animation, oregon sketch. Everyone tin presumption your remixed photos, adjacent if they're not utilizing a Google phone. Additionally, if you're chatting with different Google Messages user, you tin some remix the aforesaid photograph backmost and forth. This diagnostic is disposable connected the Pixel 6 and above, arsenic good arsenic each different Android devices.
Bonus. Wicked: For Good Theme packs
If you can't hold to get your Oz fix, cheque retired the caller "Wicked: For Good" taxable packs to customize your Pixel with wallpapers, icons, strategy sounds, and GIFs inspired by the film. Three styles are disposable -- For Good, Glinda, and Elphaba. These are disposable for the Pixel 6 and up.
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