🌐 Google will soon fix a security loophole in Chrome's password autofill

Currently, Chrome for Android will autofill passwords without needing any authentication, but Google says you'll soon be able to protect autofills with your biometrics.

Details👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/google-chrome-password-autofill-biometrics-3582675/

💻 Google is making Android’s touchpad controls more like a desktop OS

Android is adding a customizable three-finger touchpad tap gesture and a touchpad acceleration toggle

More details👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/android-touchpad-new-features-canary-3583504/

📁🔒Google is making it easier to hide sensitive files in your Pixel's Private Space

Android is adding an option to move or copy files from the main profile to your Pixel’s Private Space

More details👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/private-space-file-transfer-feature-3583499/

📱Google could fix one of the most annoying things about switching from a Galaxy to a Pixel phone

You may soon be able to flip the navigation bar on Pixel phones, just like on Samsung phones, putting the Back button on the right and Recents on the left.

🔗https://androidauthority.com/android-flip-navigation-bar-rumor-3584159/

⏩🪫This new Android security feature could interfere with fast charging, and here's why

If you enable the new Advanced Protection for USB feature (live in Canary), you may need to unlock your Android phone before you can fast charge.

More details👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/advanced-protection-for-usb-fast-charging-3584219/

🖱Android may soon get its own version of Apple’s Hot Corners on Macs

Google is working on an "Action Corners" feature for Android that will let you trigger shortcuts by moving the pointer to a corner

More details👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/android-action-corners-leak-3584262/

🕐 Android can now give you a heads up when your phone's time zone changes

The Android Canary release brings the "time zone change" feature I discovered earlier this year. This feature alerts you when your device's time zone has been auto updated.

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-time-zone-alerts-3524074/

🐧Android 16 QPR1 lets the Linux Terminal dynamically adjust its storage use

In Android 16 QPR1, the Linux Terminal has added storage ballooning support, allowing the app to adjust its storage needs automatically.

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-terminal-disk-resize-3546144/

🔍Android 16 QPR1 makes it easier to find your recent apps with its taskbar overflow

The taskbar overflow is a horizontally scrolling carousel of your recent apps, and it appears when desktop windowing is active on your device.

More details👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-taskbar-overflow-3565405/

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©️ This is the Android 17 codename, and it's not what you guessed

We polled our readers about what they think the Android 17 codename is, and everyone got it wrong.

Here's what it's actually going to be👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/android-17-codename-3585116/

🖋Here's a look at the unreleased Pixel Tablet Pen's hidden note-taking trick

Last week, Google's unreleased stylus for the Pixel Tablet mysteriously appeared. Early reports said the stylus button doesn't work, but it works after enabling some settings.

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-tablet-pen-notetaking-trick-3586042/

The fact that this is now something you can quite easily set up on a Pixel device is so cool.

The new Linux Terminal in Android has so much potential!

🔗 Your Pixel phone will soon run FULL DESKTOP apps!

🖥🐧Hands-on: We ran full desktop Linux apps on an Android phone!

With some light setup, you too can run full desktop Linux apps like GIMP and LibreOffice on a Pixel phone, and even get a full desktop environment!

Here's how👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/run-desktop-linux-apps-on-android-how-to-3586539/

🌡 FINALLY! Google Home is rolling out full temperature scheduling support for older Nest thermostats like the 3rd gen!

I noticed this last night, and one of my followers has it too. Let me know if you see it in the Google Home app!

Screenshots👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/older-nest-thermostat-scheduling-google-home-3587493/

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UPDATE: If you're experiencing glitches in the scheduling page of the Google Home app for your Gen 3 or E Nest Thermostat, clear the Home app's cache!

After clearing its cache and reopening it, my schedule from the Nest app carried over, and I was able to successfully add/remove new temperatures!

Thanks to scuttlefield on Discord for the tip!

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