🕐 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/

We're launching a new podcast and newsletter at Android Authority!

The Authority Insights Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by C. Scott Brown and I. Each week, we analyze the top 2-3 scoops our Authority Insights team publishes each week. The first episode is out now!

The Authority Insights Newsletter is a weekly newsletter written by me. Each edition, I'll reveal some new facet of Android that hasn't been reported on anywhere else yet, and also highlight our top discoveries of the week! The first edition is out tomorrow and it's about Android 17!

Both are free, so please subscribe if you care about Android/Google news!

🔗 Introducing the Authority Insights Podcast and Newsletter

©️ 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!

My next newsletter will reveal some of the features Google plans to implement in Android 16 QPR2 (Android 16.1), so be sure to sign up for the newsletter to get it delivered to your inbox!

(Yes, I will also make a post here. But please subscribe to help me boost the newsletter numbers 😊)

🔜📱Google's next big Android release is coming with new agentic AI tools, UWB upgrades, and new parental control features

Here’s what to expect in Android 16 QPR2, Google’s next quarterly Android update 👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-qpr2-expected-features-3588166/

✨ Can Google do AI notifications better than Apple?

Our thoughts on Android's Notification Intelligence features, plus an analysis of the Google Play Store's gaming forums and Translate's Duolingo competitor.

The latest episode of the Authority Insights Podcast is live!

Episode show notes + links to view/listen to it can be found 👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/authority-insights-podcast-002-3587977/

Trying something new: I'm hosting a Made by Google '25 Watch Party tomorrow!

Join me at 12:30 PM ET (30 minutes before the keynote kicks off) and watch Google unveil the Pixel 10, Pixel Watch 4, and more!

Thanks to Google for giving us permission to restream this!

Watch here:

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWma9DFBz5w

Suddenly, this Amazon-led contribution to AOSP makes a lot more sense.

Via Reuters:

"Exclusive: Amazon looks to ditch homegrown software for Android in Fire tablet revamp, sources say"

🎧The Pixel Buds 2a brings substantial upgrades to Google’s mid-range earbuds

🔉New design similar to Buds Pro 2
🔥Tensor A1 processor
🔇ANC
🔋Better battery life
📌Multipoint, Find Hub, spatial audio

More details at the link 👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-buds-2a-launch-3584238/

⌚️Google just unveiled the Pixel Watch 4, a huge upgrade without a price bump!

☀️ Brighter display
📳 Better haptics
🔥 New M55 co-processor
🔋 25% better battery life
📌 Dual-frequency GPS

Tons more details in the link 👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-watch-4-price-availability-specs-features-3585385/

👀 Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL debut as Google's most ambitious lineup yet

⏩ Tensor G5
🪫 INTEGRATED Qi2 magnets (!)
✨ TONS of new AI features
📶 eSIM-only in US (!)
📷 100X zoom

All the details 👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-10-specs-features-price-availability-3588502/

📱📱The new Pixel 10 Pro Fold is here, and it looks like a stellar Galaxy Z Fold 7 rival!

📲 8” inner, 6.4” outer display
🔋 5015mAh battery
💦 IP68 rating (!)
🪫 INTEGRATED Qi2 magnets (!)

Click 👇 for all the details

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-10-pro-fold-specs-features-price-availability-3585263/

🔥Google announces Tensor G5: What's new with the Pixel 10 processor?

🔨Built on TSMC’s 3nm process
⏩Upgraded CPU, GPU, and TPU
✨Newer version of Gemini Nano
📷Better image processing

Here’s what we know so far 👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/google-tensor-g5-3583168/

📱Google's Pixel 10 has a secret weapon for long-term storage performance

All 256GB+ Pixel 10 models now have UFS 4.0, and in addition, the 512GB and 1TB models have a new technology called ZUFS that improves long-term storage endurance.

Here's how👇

🔗https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-10-storage-specs-3589059/