• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    How about app-based volume control? Is that an option yet? I just want to be able to listen to music and have the driving directions on at the same time without hearing “TURN LEFT IN A QUARTER MILE MOTHERFUCKER!” at some obnoxious volume. Keep your ai bullshit and fix that first.

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      17 days ago

      You can change the volume of maps voice fyi.

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            17 days ago

            TIL thanks. That’s still a shitty workaround, first because it takes three menus inside of settings, something I’d rather not adjust while driving. And that’s just the one app. I appreciate the tip, but my gripe with Google remains unabated.

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              17 days ago

              Its annoyingly in sub menus but that seems to be because it’s for your whole account

              When I set mine lower it applied across all 3 devices I used maps on

              So the idea is probably most people like it at a setting once they find it, so save it and apply moving forward, not to be adjusted during the drive

              The option for per-app is still great for other uses though for sure

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      16 days ago

      There’s a bell icon on the main page or in the main menu you can click it to ! Meaning alerts only so only like slowdowns or reroutes are communicated

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        16 days ago

        But I want the directions, I just don’t want them louder than the music. It’s a basic feature for all Android devices, and the Google Pixel is the only phone that has this defect.

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    17 days ago

    Previously only available on Pixel phones, you can now use our free built-in Google VPN on your Pixel Tablet. This means data like your internet traffic, private messages and photos, health information, banking details and location data are all protected when connected to public Wi-Fi networks.

    I thought Google One VPN was being discontinued?

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      17 days ago

      Woooo can’t wait for exactly zero of these features to arrive to my Graphene’d Pixel!

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    17 days ago

    Sounds like the “made you look” feature still uses the shitty front facing camera and not the big useful fucking camera

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      17 days ago

      Well, unless your phone’s got a screen on the back good luck using the other camera.

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          17 days ago

          Unless I’m very much mistaken the Fold doesn’t have a screen on the same side as the nice camera either.

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            16 days ago

            When it’s folded open, the front/outside screen with its front facing camera and the back camera face the subject of the photo when I that mode. The tablet screen and it’s additional “front” camera face the picture taker. The phone functionally has 3 cameras ignoring any “combined” camera function