c/android · by QuantumEyetanglement@lemdro.id · 1y

December Pixel Drop: New features for your Pixel phone, Tablet and more

https://blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-drop-december-2024/

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/15879082

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18 Comments

themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y (8 replies)

How about app-based volume control? Is that an option yet? I just want to be able to listen to music and have the driving directions on at the same time without hearing "TURN LEFT IN A QUARTER MILE MOTHERFUCKER!" at some obnoxious volume. Keep your ai bullshit and fix that first.

gray@pawb.social · 10 pts · 1y (5 replies)

You can change the volume of maps voice fyi.

themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Really? How?

n2burns@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)

In Google Maps: Settings -> Navigation -> Guidance volume

themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

TIL thanks. That's still a shitty workaround, first because it takes three menus inside of settings, something I'd rather not adjust while driving. And that's just the one app. I appreciate the tip, but my gripe with Google remains unabated.

gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Its annoyingly in sub menus but that seems to be because it's for your whole account

When I set mine lower it applied across all 3 devices I used maps on

So the idea is probably most people like it at a setting once they find it, so save it and apply moving forward, not to be adjusted during the drive

The option for per-app is still great for other uses though for sure

themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Considering all other android devices can do it, it really makes Google seem deficient.

keyez@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

There's a bell icon on the main page or in the main menu you can click it to ! Meaning alerts only so only like slowdowns or reroutes are communicated

themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

But I want the directions, I just don't want them louder than the music. It's a basic feature for all Android devices, and the Google Pixel is the only phone that has this defect.

bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Previously only available on Pixel phones, you can now use our free built-in Google VPN on your Pixel Tablet. This means data like your internet traffic, private messages and photos, health information, banking details and location data are all protected when connected to public Wi-Fi networks.

I thought Google One VPN was being discontinued?

QuantumEyetanglement@lemdro.id · 6 pts · 1y

I believe it's being rebranded as Pixel VPN exclusive to pixel devices

Michal@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y

There's "VPN by Google" and "Google One VPN". Maybe it's the former that's being discontinued?

asudox@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

more spyware, yay

LostXOR@fedia.io · 6 pts · 1y

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brlemworld@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Sounds like the "made you look" feature still uses the shitty front facing camera and not the big useful fucking camera

LostXOR@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y (4 replies)

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brlemworld@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (3 replies)

It does.... It's an exclusive feature of the Pixel Fold.

LostXOR@fedia.io · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y

You are mistaken. It's a feature touted often. I use it regularly.

brlemworld@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

When it's folded open, the front/outside screen with its front facing camera and the back camera face the subject of the photo when I that mode. The tablet screen and it's additional "front" camera face the picture taker. The phone functionally has 3 cameras ignoring any "combined" camera function

Stomata@sh.itjust.works · -7 pts · 1y

December pixel Drop: New "SPYWARE" for your pixel phone, Tablet and more