Google May Bring Apple’s Continuity-Like Device-Linking Feature To Android – News18

Google is reportedly planning to introduce a brand new characteristic for Android that may permit customers to hyperlink their numerous Android units collectively, much like Apple’s Continuity characteristic.

According to Android knowledgeable Mishaal Rahman, the characteristic may permit Android units which can be signed into the identical Google account to speak with one another.

“You might quickly have the ability to ‘link your [Android] devices’ signed into the identical Google account collectively. This will allow ‘call switching’, which helps you to change between units for calls, in addition to ‘Internet sharing’,” Rahman posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday.

It could enable features including “Call Switching”, which permits customers to modify between related units throughout calls, and “Internet Sharing”, which could allow users to quickly set up a personal hotspot across the connected devices, as per Android Authority.

Rahman claimed that the new “Link Your Devices” menu will seem beneath Settings > Google > Devices & Sharing as soon as the characteristic formally rolls out.

Apple has an identical characteristic referred to as “iPhone Mobile Calls” that lets users make and receive calls from other Apple devices signed into the same Apple ID, as long as they’re on the same network as the user’s iPhone.

Meanwhile, Google has announced that it is rolling out a new feature that allows users to highlight or emphasise key content while they present in Google Slides.

“With the new pen tool, you can circle, underline, draw connections or make quick notes directly on your presentation,” the corporate stated in a Workspace Updates blogpost.

Whether in a board assembly or a brainstorming session, annotations can assist make customers’ shows extra participating, interactive and impactful. The customers also can erase annotations through the use of the eraser software within the backside left viewer menu.

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