-Google has announced to automatically delete visits to abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters, weight loss clinics, and other potentially sensitive locations from users’ location data
-With a split keyboard option, Google’s Gboard keyboard app for Android is offering a benefit to users of foldable phones (or, at least, for the time being, to beta users of the programme)
San Francisco, NFAPost: Google has announced to automatically delete visits to abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters, weight loss clinics, and other potentially sensitive locations from users’ location data.
The tech giant said that if their systems identify that someone has visited one of these places, “we will delete these entries from Location History soon after they visit. This change will take effect in the coming weeks”.
The company’s announcement on Friday came in the wake of Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade case and several states immediately outlawed abortions in the US.
The users can also turn off Google’s location data altogether. Facebook and Instagram are also removing posts from users who offered abortion pills via mail posts.
Following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade case, social media users started shared posts offering to mail abortion pills to people whose access to abortion has been stripped away.
Facebook and Instagram immediately removed such posts.
Meanwhile, Google said that for Google Fit and Fitbit, it gives users settings and tools to easily access and control their personal data, including the option to change and delete personal information at any time.
“For example, Fitbit users who have chosen to track their menstrual cycles in the app can currently delete menstruation logs one at a time, and we will be rolling out updates that let users delete multiple logs at once,” said the company.
Gboard’s split keyboard beta makes it simpler to type on foldable phones
With a split keyboard option, Google’s Gboard keyboard app for Android is offering a benefit to users of foldable phones (or, at least, for the time being, to beta users of the programme).
According to The Verge, it aims to make typing on big, extended screens like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 or a Microsoft Surface Duo 2 less unpleasant and slightly more ergonomic.
With the keyboard divided in half, all of the keys are considerably closer to the sides of the foldable phone, where your thumbs may naturally rest when holding the device. Although Z Fold phones already have access to this capability through Samsung’s keyboard software, some Android users prefer Gboard’s typing interface and auto-correct features.
The r/GalaxyFold subreddit was initially alerted to the feature’s covert inclusion by Android Central. Visit the app’s page in the Google Play Store on your smartphone to sign up for the beta if you want to try it out for yourself.
9to5 Google states that the beta version 11.9.04 will include this feature. However, you might need to wait for Google to turn on a server-side switch before you can access it if you can’t see it in your app.
If a split keyboard icon appears in the toolbar above your foldable’s on-screen keyboard (I’ve highlighted it in light orange in the images below), you have it. By pressing it, the keyboard will split in half, and a symbol that can bring the two halves back together will take its place.
Surface Duo 2 and Galaxy Z Fold 3, are two devices that, despite their tardy arrival in late 2021, have undergone enough advancements to become significantly more enticing in 2022. And typing on it is now simpler than ever.
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