Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Fun Android photo apps July 18, 2025 If you love making a serious picture funny or a funny picture hilarious then you’ll love the apps we’ve got for you today. Add a moustache to your mom’s face, or warp your teacher’s face. You can even paste your face on a celebrity’s body for extra laughs. We’ve put together some of the funniest photo apps that you can find on the Google Play Store to keep you amused and to give personal touches to your photos....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Camera update suggests Pixel 6 XL could have a 5X ‘ultra-tele’ camera June 15, 2025 TheGoogle Pixel 6 XLis shaping up to be a photography upgrade for the Mountain View company, at least if leaks and rumors are anything to go on. Leaked renders show a triple rear camera that includes a periscope-style shooter, and it now looks like we’ve got more evidence for this addition....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Earth lets you find out how wide the Eiffel Tower really is July 13, 2025 Googlealready launched its Measure app forARCore-enabled smartphones, but why not up the ante and make it available elsewhere? That is exactly what Google did with thelatest updateto Google Earth, which now lets you measure the distance and area of anything on the map....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google I/O 2020 dates announced, Pixel 4a expected August 03, 2025 We finally have the dates for Google I/O 2020. Google’s annual developer conference will be held from May 12 to May 14 at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. The event was announced in atweetby Alphabet head Sundar Pichai after users took part in the company’s annualteaser puzzle....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google looks to be working on a Play Store loyalty program Jun 09, 2025 Unless you’re trying to installFortnite, the Play Store is where most Android users immediately go when they want to install a new app. While this is the only official way Google offers to download apps, there are other places to buy music, movies, and more. Thanks to a recent teardown of the Play Store app by9to5Google, it looks like Google might soon open a reward system to help entice customers to purchase everything through thePlay Store....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Messages is getting a makeover on Samsung phones. Is your phone eligible? July 25, 2025 Samsung adopted Google Messages as its default messaging app on theGalaxy S21 series, switching out its own Samsung Messages app. Now, Google seems to be making its SMS app even more suited for Samsung phones by adopting aOne UI-inspired redesign. According to folks over atXDA DevelopersandAndroid Police, Google Messages is getting a brand new home screen on Samsung phones with One UI 3....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google officially extends its work from home policy through to July 2021 July 30, 2025 Update: August 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM ET:Google confirmed its new work-from-home policy in an email toAndroid Authority. Sundar Pichai sent an email to employees this morning, which said: Original article: June 04, 2025 at 11:31 AM ET:With no end in sight to the coronavirus pandemic, Google will extend its current work from home policy through to at least July 2021, according toThe Wall Street Journal....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here’s Samsung’s new 8-step battery safety test July 05, 2025 Samsunghas announced new quality assurance measures, including an 8-step battery safety check, following the cancellation of theGalaxy Note 7last year. The protocols were outlined in a Samsung blog post today, alongside a video explanation of the Note 7 fires. Samsung says its 8-step system features a number of improved safety tests encompassing X-Rays, durability and disassembling procedures, visual inspection and a delta open circuit voltage test (which assesses changes in voltage throughout the manufacturing process)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HTC pulls smartphones from major Chinese marketplaces June 06, 2025 It just became quite a bit more difficult for Chinese citizens to buy HTC-branded smartphones. According to the company’sofficial Weibo account(viaMySmartPrice), HTCsmartphones are no longer listed on TMall and Jingdong (better known as JD.com), two prominent online stores. In its Weibo announcement, the company says that its officialHTConline store still has its smartphones listed, and consumers can still visit its physical store in Shenzhen....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HTC U11 Plus review: what the Pixel 2 XL could’ve been July 18, 2025 HTC U11 Plus (U11+) What we like What we don’t like Our scores What does it take to make a good phone great? The Android landscape is littered with the corpses of good phones nobody bought, andHTChas made more than its fair share of them. The HTCU11 Plus, originally destined to be theGoogle Pixel 2 XL, is a giant leap forward for the company....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. iPhones now have ‘OK Google’ support… if you say ‘Hey Siri’ first July 23, 2025 Android users have been able to use the “OK Google” hotword to launchGoogle Assistantfor a while now. However, iPhone users have had to open up the Google Assistant app manually and then issue voice commands to get things done. Now, though, the latest version of the Google Assistant iOS app will help you make custom Siri Shortcuts, which will allow you to issue “OK Google” hotword commands (viaThe Verge)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Magnets found in the Google Pixel and Pixel XL could lead to smart flip cases July 02, 2025 Magnets are cool. They offer a lot of functionality besides sticking things together, and in recent years, a number of manufacturers have figured out ways to take advantage of their interesting properties. One of the most memorable of these manufacturers is HTC, who mystified everyone with the introduction of the Dot View case for the HTCOne M8....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Malicious apps reinfest Play Store after name change July 23, 2025 At least seven malicious apps that had previously been removed from Google Play are said to have reappeared under different names. Researchers atSymantecfound that the apps had been reuploaded to Google Play by different publishers, but that the malware code contained in them was the same. The malware in question was a trojan first discovered in February 2014 calledAndroid....