The handy Pixel Screenshots app is about to become even more useful – here’s what’s coming

• APK teardown reveals imaginable updates to Google's Pixel Screenshots app
• New features see caller app shortcuts and image scanning abilities
• It's not confirmed when, aliases moreover if, these features will beryllium released

Google's Pixel Screenshots app, which provides a dedicated assemblage and AI hunt usability for (you guessed it) screenshots, is owed to person immoderate awesome improvements pinch a coming update.

Coming additions see 2 caller shortcuts and a caller location surface layout, arsenic good arsenic nan anticipation of copying and contacting email addresses and telephone numbers from a screenshot.

That’s according to Android Authority, who person published a caller APK teardown looking into nan codification and features of nan adjacent update to nan Screenshots app.

For reference, APK present stands for Android Package, which is nan record type utilized to present apps, games, functional software, and updates to each 3 to Android devices.

Pixel Screenshots: upcoming caller features

The astir instantly noticeable caller characteristic is nan Pixel Screenshots app's subtly redesigned location screen, which has changed from a database of assemblage show options to simply showing nan assemblage pinch a toggle to alteration nan position type.

There besides seems to beryllium a caller motion enabled, allowing users to long-press-and-swipe complete a group of screenshots to prime aggregate images – nan teardown besides finds that users whitethorn beryllium capable to rename collections.

As for nan caller shortcuts, these mention to nan functions disposable pinch a long-press of nan app icon connected nan phone’s location surface aliases app drawer.

The 2 shortcuts that look to beryllium connected nan measurement are “Gallery” and “Camera”, allowing users to entree and adhd to their screenshots pinch moreover little hassle.

What’s more, nan Screenshots app will seemingly let users to copy, contact, and prevention email addresses aliases telephone numbers from images – this seems for illustration a logical summation to nan existent group of AI devices included successful Pixel Screenshots, but this isn’t yet confirmed.

Keep successful mind that this is neither a scheduled aliases implemented update yet, truthful immoderate aliases each of these features could alteration earlier release, aliases not make it to users astatine all.

For nan latest charismatic updates arsenic we perceive them, beryllium judge to support up pinch our Google Pixel phones coverage and Android coverage.

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