After the ninth addition last week, Google Wallet on Android is now rolling out support for Arkansas state IDs.

Gemini for Home is the umbrella term for Google’s renewed smart home effort with several distinct aspects: app, camera, and voice assistant. From what the company has shared so far, here’s when Gemini for Home is rolling out.

The Google Home team is answering the “top questions” it has received from users since Wednesday’s Gemini for Home launch. 

Ahead of the Pixel Watch 4 launching next week, the majority of Google’s Wear OS apps now have Material 3 Expressive redesigns, with Home and Keep being the most recent updates.

Besides other incoming updates, the Google Play Store now lets you directly buy digital gift cards on Android.

The Material 3 Expressive redesign of Google Wallet for Android is finally seeing a wider rollout today. 

The fullscreen Google Account switcher started rolling out earlier this year, and the menu redesign is now coming to the remaining first-party apps.

Google Maps has updated two key buttons for location and directions that people interact with constantly throughout the day.

Gemini for Home does more than just replace Google Assistant on smart speakers and displays. Featuring a rebuilt Home architecture, it adds intelligence to cameras and makes possible a redesigned Home app for Android and iOS. 

With the latest update, the Pixel Buds Pro 2 now broadcasts its battery life to all your devices, while there’s now a “Fully charged” notification.

Waymo now supports YouTube Music as its third streaming provider. Meanwhile, the Waymo app now has a “My car” tab.

Google Wallet on Android is now rolling out support for North Dakota state IDs. This follows the last launch in August.

Google might restore a useful Pixel Launcher shortcut that lets you type the name of an app and quickly open it without leaving the keyboard.

Google Drive for desktop on macOS and Windows is adding AI-powered ransomware detection that can stop syncing and allows for easy file restore. 

Google is updating AI Mode to offer a more visual experience when searching for inspiration and shopping.

Following Gmail and Docs, Gemini is coming to Google Drive for Android and iOS. This integration lets users “ask questions about their files and folders and receive conversational responses.”

We previously spotted that the Google Home app was getting a redesign with “Ask Home” and it’s now beginning to roll out for iPhone users ahead of the October 1 announcement.

Besides announcing a new AI Labs program, YouTube is making official the latest Premium features for subscribers today, like faster playback speeds. Most were first previewed at the start of this year.

Google today updated the 2.5 Flash model available in the Gemini app across three areas.

Following the initial rollout, Google apps have been adding to or refining their Material 3 Expressive redesigns. Google Drive might now be toning down one aspect of M3 Expressive.

Google today “officially launched” (US English) AI Mode’s Search Live capability, with both audio and video input, today.

WhatsApp may not be as popular in the US as it is throughout much of the rest of the world, but thanks to a flashy, celebrity-packed ad campaign, it’s been working to reverse that fate. Now, WhatsApp is adding support for message translations directly within your conversations, with Android users in particular getting a pretty big upgrade.

After rolling out over the past few weeks, device controls are now widely rolled out to the Google Home web app.

After introducing on the Pixel 10 series, Google Photos is bringing the conversational “Help me edit” experience to all Android users in the US.