Google Gives iOS Users Ability to Delete Recent Search History
Google Gives iOS Users Ability to Delete Recent Search History
Other auto-delete controls Google announced on Thursday include the ability to choose to automatically delete your Search history after three, 18, or 36 months. It’s important to note that new accounts automatically delete after 18 months, but setting.
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Other search updates Google announced on Thursday include the ability to lock your My Activity page behind an extra sign-in page. This feature is especially handy if you share a device with someone else, such as your kids, so others won’t have access to what you’ve been searching for on Google.
Earlier this year, Google also introduced a to specific apps to provide more security for Android users. Experts say this means that apps will have a harder time getting access to information from the other apps on your phone, increasing your phone’s security.
Android 12 will get an update that allows you to play a game as you’re downloading it. Google announced the new feature—called Play as You Download—coming to Android 12 this fall during Monday’s.
"Play as you download, built into the core of Android 12, will allow users to get into gameplay in seconds while game assets are downloaded in the background," Greg Hartrell, product management director of Google Play and Android, said in the blog post.
“We are seeing games being ready to open at least two times faster and we are very excited about the improved user experience.”
The new feature will make the core assets of larger mobile games download faster, so you can start playing the main parts of a game while it continues to download files in the background.
Aside from the ability to access more games faster, Google also announced a new game dashboard. Google said the dashboard “provides an overlay experience with quick access to key utilities during gameplay—like screen capture, recording, and more.”
Google also added that it is continuing to innovate its Play Assist Delivery, so players spend less time waiting for their games to download while keeping the quality of the game. Google said it would begin using Texture Compression Format Targeting to automatically figure out what compression formats to use to further reduce your game’s size.
Other exciting Android 12 features include new themes and color schemes, better power efficiency, a new Privacy Dashboard, a unified API, and more.
Tosone said Instagram’s shift toward entertainment is likely an effort to keep up with competitors like TikTok and YouTube, a point Adam Mosseri alluded to in his video announcement.
"[Instagram] obviously sees threats from different platforms and comes out with an alternative," Tosone said. "IGTV was meant to compete with YouTube; I think that reels obviously were meant to compete with TikTok; stories basically overtook Snapchat."
Although she’s optimistic about some of the platform’s upcoming features, Tosone expressed reservations about the company’s patterns of adopting other platforms’ features and its dominance.
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