Keep your most-used apps accessible with this new feature.

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Google's latest release for Pixel testers lands just over a week after the publication of Android 17 QPR3 Beta 2.

The mornings and evenings have become cooler, and it's starting to feel like autumn.You might have opened your phone's "Settings" and seen a notification for a "Software Update." Google released the ...

Android 17 introduces app bubbling, allowing users to keep up to five apps easily accessible on their home screen, enhancing multitasking and convenience.

If you're the kind of person who tends to have multiple conversations at once, hopping between your messaging apps and whatever else you're doing, you know how tedious it can be to switch between them ...

Google introduced “bubbles” as a means of keeping messaging apps easily accessible by letting them float on top of other apps. In future versions of Android, it sounds like Google may make these a lot ...

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Google is working to improve Android phone multitasking by enabling any app to open in a bubble and making them accessible from a new bubble bar. The bubble bar, combined with the “bubble anything” ...

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The rollout of Android 17 is well underway, having been first released to Pixel phones on June 16, 2026, as part of the June Pixel Feature Drop. Google is calling Android 17 its biggest update yet, ...