June Feature Drop: New features and upgrades for the Pixel portfolio

Jun 11, 2024

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Mikaela Kraft

Product Marketing Manager, Pixel

For Pixel Phones

Gemini Nano expands to Pixel 8 and Pixel 8a

Gemini Nano is Google’s astir businesslike AI exemplary built for on-device tasks,¹ and starting today, you tin usage Pixel 8 and Pixel 8a to entree Gemini Nano arsenic a developer option. You tin enable developer options successful your Pixel’s settings.

Take your transcripts to the adjacent level

Gemini powers Summarize successful Recorder to tally on-device connected Pixel 8 and 8a – and the Recorder app²now delivers much detailed, downloadable summaries³to Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro and Pixel 8a. It’s capable to observe and see the names of speakers truthful conversational transcripts are improved. And with the quality to export transcripts into substance files oregon Google Docs,⁴keeping way of things similar interviews and people lectures is made easy.

Take your amusement to the large screen

Pixel 8a, Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro tin present show contented connected a larger screen,⁵like your machine monitor, erstwhile you plug it successful via USB-C, giving you much abstraction to bask your favourite movies, shows and slides.⁶

Find your phone, adjacent erstwhile the artillery dies

Find My Device is getting a adjuvant upgrade that enables you to find your telephone adjacent erstwhile it’s disconnected oregon the artillery is dead,⁷all portion keeping your determination information encrypted and backstage from Google.

Put your champion faces forward

The Pixel camera tin present automatically place the champion infinitesimal from your photograph successful HDR+ with conscionable a azygous shutter press, truthful it’s easier to drawback a photograph wherever your look is successful absorption and smiling.⁸

Quickly look up a enigma telephone number

Don’t admit a telephone number? With conscionable a fewer taps, you tin present bash a reverse telephone fig hunt straight from your telephone log.⁹

Save and entree your mundane essentials from Google Wallet

Google Wallet recently expanded to India, truthful adjacent much radical tin securely store and entree mundane items, similar boarding passes, loyalty cards, lawsuit tickets, nationalist transport tickets, acquisition cards, and more.

Additional telephone improvements

Pixel’s camera present lets you manually prime which camera lens you privation to usage portion taking photos, giving you much power implicit capturing the cleanable shot.¹⁰

For Pixel Watches

Extra bid of caput erstwhile you’re connected the go

In clip for National Safety Month, Car Crash Detection¹¹is launching arsenic a marque caller information diagnostic connected Pixel Watch 2 that gives you much ways to enactment harmless and get assistance erstwhile you mightiness request it most, adjacent erstwhile you don’t person your Pixel phone. If you’re successful a terrible car accident, your ticker tin present cheque successful to marque definite you’re okay. If you request assistance oregon don’t respond, it volition automatically dial exigency services. Car Crash Detection integrates with Emergency Sharing connected your watch,¹² truthful your exigency contacts volition beryllium notified and get your real-time determination if you’ve been successful an accident. We’ve besides improved Fall Detection to amended observe falls from bicycles.¹³

Make beingness easier with improved app experiences

Now you person much ways to wage from your Pixel Watch erstwhile you’re retired and astir without taking your carnal wallet out. You tin present nexus your PayPal relationship to Google Wallet¹⁴on your ticker for easiness the adjacent clip you permission your wallet astatine location oregon your hands are full.

Your Google Home app is getting a revamp and you tin present entree your astute location devices faster and easier straight from your watch:¹⁵¹⁶

• Access your Google Home Favorites with conscionable a swipe connected your watch. Tap the instrumentality icon to unfastened the Home app and set the temperature, dim the lights, and more.
• You tin present entree a astute location instrumentality from your ticker look connected Wear OS. Tap the instrumentality shortcut and marque adjustments, close connected your wrist.
• The Google Home app connected Wear OS gives you much ways to power your astute location devices. Adjust the rotation of your blinds oregon instrumentality speed, each from your watch.

For Pixel Tablet

See who’s there

Is idiosyncratic ringing your doorbell? Your Pixel Tablet volition present person richer doorbell notifications¹⁷when docked successful hub mode, giving you a snapshot of who is astatine your beforehand door. You tin speech to them with two-way talk, oregon nonstop a Quick Response.

Smart location favorites

The caller Google Home Favorites widget¹⁸gives you adjacent quicker entree to your compatible astute location devices. You’ll get quick, customizable astute location controls connected your telephone and tablet location screen, truthful you tin entree your thermostat oregon crook connected your lights with conscionable a speedy tap.