On Tuesday evening, Google organized its own WWDC: Google I / O 2018. Google I / O 2018 is mainly focused on Android devices, but the company has a number of nice announcements for Apple users this year. We list all of them for you in this article.
Google I / O 2018 for Apple users
Google I / O is like the WWDC for Apple: a big annual conference in which the company shows which plans it has for its most important software platforms. From Google News to Google Photos and Gmail. Because these apps all work on iOS, these announcements are also worthwhile for all iPhone and iPad users. You can not miss this as far as we are concerned.
1. Gmail - Writes the mail yourself
This year Gmail focuses on the people who actually hate to write emails. After the new design released this month, the mail service will have the Smart Compose function, which uses artificial intelligence to supplement words and phrases. By looking at the words you type and the email you respond to, Gmail presents complete sentences.
You can click on them to place them directly in your mail. This feature is handy if you do not have the time or desire to respond to someone, but can not wait with a reply.
Another interesting innovation is the snooze function. If you do not have time to answer an incoming e-mail, press the Snooze button. The mail will then appear again in the mailbox at a time of your choice.
2. Google Maps - Navigating with augmented reality, better suggestions
Many Apple users have Google Maps on their iPhone, iPad or other Apple device. It is, of course, the most popular navigation service of Android and iOS. Google Maps gets a new "Explore" tab that helps you find events, restaurants, and stores in your area that fit your interests. This makes it easier to distinguish between all those restaurants that are rated with four stars.
In addition, you can quickly make appointments from Maps with several people at the same time to meet up somewhere. Finally,the augmented reality also comes to the card service, so that by pointing your iPhone camera on the road you can see a virtual arrow on the road that points you in the right direction.
3. Google Home
Finally, the search giant made an interesting product announcement: the Google Home and Home Mini are coming to few places this year. Assistant supports most of the languages and the smarter speaker also works with iOS. The Google Home is the biggest competitor of Apple's HomePod.
4. Google Photos - Turns your old black and white photos to colour.
Google enriches its Photos app with a very interesting feature. The photo service gets a chance to convert your old-white photos to colour. Yes, you can also do that with the nostalgic photos of, for example, your grandfather or grandmother! With the help of artificial intelligence, Google Photos predicts the colours of the parts when the photo was taken.
The same technique is useful for editing new photos, for example making the background black and white so that the person in the foreground stand out better. All these new functions will be presented to you at the moments that come in handy. This is handy because the number of functions in Google Photos is starting to expand considerably.
5. Google News - A new news app full of artificial intelligence
Google is investing in quality journalism with a brand new Google News app that also comes with the iPhone. The app lets you easily follow news sites, gives you the latest news at a glance and, thanks to artificial intelligence, determines which news you will see. The new app will be available in 127 countries the following week.
6. Google Assistant - Call the hairdresser for you
The Google Assistant also has its own iOS app. Fortunately, because Siri 's competitor shows how far ahead it is when it comes to digital assistants. This year, Google makes conversations easier, by not always calling 'Ok Google' when asking a follow-up question.
The most impressive demonstration was undoubtedly the moment when the Assistant called a hairdresser independently to schedule an appointment for you, without the person on the other side of the line noticing that she was talking to a robot. Cool isn't it?
These are the 6 most important announcements for the Apple users from the Google I/O conference. I hope we will see all these new features in the near future to experience them on our own.
For which announcement are you eagerly waiting for?
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