Android holiday-themed features will be coming to your phone to spice up the holiday season. Although it’s time to celebrate, but the pandemic is keeping us all in a bit of a struggle to join our family members this time around. But the Android team wants to help everyone by launching new features and improvements.
And we hope that these holiday-themed features will make our devices more efficient and bring us closer to loved ones. One such helpful feature is the Family Bell. It helps the whole family keep track of schedules. You can set up the Family Bell on an Android device, smart display, or home speaker.
Family Bell is a new Android holiday-themed features
Once all the family members are in the pool, The family bell will ring on your devices. You can edit, customize, or manage the Family Bell from a device. This isn’t the only thing that gets improvements you also get widgets updates with new and improved integration and alerts.
Three new widgets are ready: Google Play Books widget, YouTube Music widget, and Google Photos People & Pets widget. With these widgets, you can enjoy a lot of content from e-books to audiobooks, holiday tunes, and photos of your family and friends, and yes–even pets.
You also get improved features for the Android Auto functionality. It can launch automatically when you connect an Android phone to your vehicle. You can soon enjoy smart reply options, Google Assistant, and voice to search for music. You can also now use your Android phone to lock/unlock your car.
At the moment, the Samsung Galaxy S21 and the Pixel 6/Pro can work on compatible BMW cars in select countries. And to secure everyone using android App permissions have been improved especially in terms of privacy. Permissions will be auto-reset on Android which is safe for everyone.