Google Chat has obtained a brand new characteristic that’s aimed toward serving to customers perceive precedence conversations with out having to learn the messages. The brand new characteristic makes it straightforward for customers to know the members in unread threads to gauge what’s extra related to them. Google Chat was developed by the tech big to interchange its older (and now defunct) textual content messaging and video calling platform Google Hangout. Whereas the textual content messaging characteristic went to it, Meet was promoted as the corporate’s sole video-calling platform.
The brand new replace was introduced by way of a submit on the Google Workspace weblog on Monday, which defined the characteristic additional. In 2023, a characteristic was added to Google Chat’s Areas, which is what the corporate calls teams. This characteristic allowed customers to answer to a specific message by way of in-line reply threads. This was a handy characteristic that allowed for separate and extra centered discussions with out derailing the principle dialog. Nonetheless, there was one problem.
If a person was returning to Areas after a break, they’d come throughout a number of threads, not figuring out what was being mentioned with out manually opening them and going via the replies. The brand new replace solves this downside by including participant avatars to all unread threads to make it extra obvious what the dialogue is about. Google mentioned, “As a way to give you extra context upfront, you’ll now see participant avatars for unread threads within the dialog view. With out having to click on to open the thread facet panel, it’s going to now be a lot simpler to determine which threads to learn and reply to.”
This characteristic will probably be obtainable to all Google account holders, together with Google Workspace prospects, Workspace Particular person subscribers, and customers with private accounts. The Google Chat characteristic doesn’t require any admin management (for Workspace customers) and can stay on by default. It should even be obtainable on the net, Android, and iOS. The tech big began its rollout on Monday, however it could take as much as two weeks to succeed in all customers.
Just lately, Gboard, Google’s keyboard app for smartphones, additionally obtained a brand new characteristic referred to as the “Scan Textual content” mode that permits customers to click on an image of textual content and insert it into the textual content area. It makes use of optical character recognition (OCR) expertise to extract the textual content and insert it into Gboard’s app.
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