Google I_O 2019 Highlights

**Introducing Android 11: A New Era of Security and Control**

Android 11 is here, and it's packed with features that prioritize security and privacy. This new operating system builds upon the best of what came before, but takes things to a whole new level. With Android 11, you'll find almost 50 new features focused on security and privacy, all designed to give you more protection, transparency, and control over your device.

**Privacy at Your Fingertips**

One of the most significant changes in Android 11 is the reorganization of settings. Privacy has taken center stage, and now it's easier than ever to access and manage your personal data. In the new Settings app, you'll find a range of important controls all in one place. This includes activity data, location history, and more. You can decide what's on or off with ease, knowing that you're always in control.

**Location Sharing Made Easy**

If you've ever wondered which apps are accessing your location when you're not actively using them, Android 11 has got you covered. The device will now give you helpful reminders whenever an app accesses location when you're not actively using it. You can review and decide whether or not to continue sharing your location. And with Q, your device will also give you more control over how you share location data with apps. For example, if you want to get pizza delivered, you can choose to share your location only while the app is in use.

**Faster Security Updates**

Android 11 also includes a set of OS modules that are updatable directly over the air. This means that these modules can be updated individually as soon as they're available, without the need for a reboot of the device. This is a major improvement over traditional security updates, which often require a restart.

**Introducing Nest Hub Max**

In addition to its focus on security and privacy, Android 11 also introduces Nest Hub Max, a new product that brings together your connected devices into a home view dashboard. The Hub Max has a camera in a larger 10-inch display, perfect for the center of your helpful home hub. This device pulls together your Nest cams, lights, music, and thermostat, giving you a comprehensive overview of your home.

**Easy Video Calling with Google Duo**

The camera on the Hub Max is designed to be incredibly helpful, allowing you to see what's going on in your home from anywhere. You can use it like a Nest cam, turning it on when you're away from home and checking on things right from the Nest app in your phone. The camera also has a wide-angle lens and automatically adjusts to keep you centered in the frame. Video calling is easy too with Google Duo, which allows you to chat with any iOS or Android device or a PC with a Chrome browser.

**Camera Controls at Your Fingertips**

One of the standout features of the Hub Max is its camera controls. You'll always know when the camera is on, thanks to a green indicator light, and you can see all your controls clearly on the display. The camera also has multiple controls to disable features, including an electrically disconnectable switch on the back.

**The Pixel 3a: A Camera-Packed Device**

And finally, we have the Pixel 3a, which comes in three colors: black, clearly white, and a new color called purple-ish. But what the Pixel 3a is really known for is its incredible camera. With software optimizations, Android 11 has brought exclusive camera features to the Pixel 3a, including Night Sight, Portrait mode on both front and rear cameras, and Super Resumes.

**AI-Powered Battery Life**

The Pixel 3a also features adaptive battery, which uses machine learning to optimize based on how you use your phone. This means that you can get up to thirty hours of battery life on a single charge, and with the included 18-watt charger, you'll get up to seven hours of battery life in just 15 minutes.

**A Complete Pixel Experience**

The Pixel 3a offers the complete Pixel experience, and we're proud to make it available and affordable to more people around the world. For the first time, our US carrier partnerships are expanding, meaning that the entire Pixel family is now available for sale at T-Mobile, Sprint, and US Cellular.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhether you're learning about the solar system or trying to choose a color scheme for your home seeing is often understanding now sometimes though the things that you're interested in they're difficult to describe in a search box so that's why we created Google lense to help you search and do more with what you see by simply pointing your camera say you're at a restaurant trying to figure out what to order instead of going from the menu to different apps on the phone and back to the menu and so on you can simply point your camera lens automatically highlights the popular dishes at this restaurant right on the menu and of course if you want to know more you can tap on any dish on the menu and you can see what it looks like again at the restaurant by the way when you're done eating lens can help pay for your meal not so fast it's not picking up your tab but it can calculate the tip and even split the total but we're starting to think of other ways that we can connect helpful digital information with the things in the physical world so I'm going to give you just one example so you're flipping through a Bon Appetit magazine and you see a recipe you like soon you can point your camera at the recipe and see the page come alive showing you how to make the dish around the world there are more than 800 million adults for struggling to read the words that they come across in their daily lives take this sign in English next to an ATM now for someone who does not understand the language and cannot read the words this is important information that they're not getting access to so directly from the Google search bar you can use lens open it pointed at the sign to hear the text read out aloud to you information for card holders customers using old proprietary magnetic stripe card should be advice you can also translate it into your own language like this and again you can hit listen and hear the words read out loud this time in your own language información para los titulares de lattre que de duplex was launched with restaurant reservations on the phone but now we are moving beyond voice and extending duplex to tasks on the web we again want to focus on narrow use cases to start so we are looking at rental car bookings as well as movie ticketing say you get a calendar reminder about an upcoming trip and you want to book a rental car you can just ask Google book a national car rental for my next trip the assistant opens the national website and automatically starts filling out your information on your behalf once all the details are in you can check everything one last time and just tap to finalize the reservation you'll immediately get a booking confirmation now internally we've been calling this the next generation assistant running on device it can process and understand requests in real time and deliver the answers up to 10 times faster now Maggie's here and she's gonna help us test it out starting with some back-to-back commands to demonstrate its speed hey Google open calendar open calculator open photos set a timer for 10 minutes what's the weather today what about tomorrow show me John Legend on Twitter get a lift ride to my hotel turn the flashlight on turn it off take a selfie now be like an effortless way to operate your phone you can start to imagine how the assistant fused into the device could orchestrate tasks across apps show me my photos from Yellowstone the ones with animals send it to Justin all right now another example is when a friend asks you a question and you need to look up the information to respond Justin wanted to know when Maggie's flight arrives when's my flight reply I should get in around 1:00 p.m. now you can even imagine this next generation assistant handling more complex speech scenarios like composing and sending an email hey Google send an email to Jessica hi Jessica I just got back from Yellowstone and completely fell in love with it set subject to Yellowstone adventures let me know if next weekend works for dinner so I can tell you all about it now I'd like to show you the future of how we're improving your mobile driving experience even more introducing the assistance new driving mode just put your phone in the car and say hey Google let's drive driving mode has a thoughtfully designed dashboard that brings your most relevant activities front and center while you're driving and includes suggestions personalized for you for example if you have a dinner reservation on your calendar you'll see a convenient shortcut to navigate to the restaurant or if you started a podcast at home in the morning once you get in your car it'll display a shortcut to resume the episode right where you left off now it also highlights top contacts making easy to call them or message them and recommendations for other things to listen to now once you're navigating phone calls and music appear in a low-profile way so you can get things done without leaving your navigation screen hey Google play some jazz sure check out this jazz music station on YouTube music now everything is voice enabled so if a call comes in the assistant will tell you who's calling and ask if you want to answer without having to take your eyes off the road call from mom do you want to pick it up no thanks today you can already find all your privacy and security settings in one place in your Google account if you tap on your profile photo in addition defining easy access to your privacy controls you'll find a new feature incognito mode incognito mode as a pop has been a popular feature in Chrome since it launched and we are bringing this to maps while in incognito in maps your activity like the places you search and navigate to won't be linked to your account we want to make it easy to enter in and out of incognito and maps will soon join Chrome and YouTube with support for incognito and we'll be bringing it to search as well this year we are announcing a new feature called live caption live caption makes all content no matter its origin more accessible to everyone incredible thing is that it works completely on device so there's no delay with one click you can turn on captions for a web video podcast or even on a moment you capture at home only possible due to our recent breakthroughs in speech recognition technology now the same on device machine-learning powers another useful cue feature which is smart reply with smart reply the OS helpfully suggests what you'll type next it'll predict the text you'll type even emoji and it's a huge time-saver what's really cool is this works now for all messaging apps and Android like in signal you can see the OS providing these helpful suggestions and smart reply can now even predict the actions that you'll take so say a friend sends you an address and normally you copy and paste that into maps that's kind of a hassle with smart reply you just tap and it will open for you and all this is saving you time on device machine learning powers everything from these incredible breakthroughs like live caption to helpful everyday features like smart reply and it does this with no user input ever leaving the phone all of which protects user privacy now there's one more addition to Android queue that's small but you've been asking us about for a while and that is dark theme and we're launching it and cue so you can activate it by using the quick tile or by turning on battery saver and in fact it will help you save battery your OLED display is one of the most power hungry components in your phone so by lighting up less pixels will save you better an Android has the most widely deployed security and anti-malware service of any OS with Google Play protect it runs on every device and it scans over 50 billion apps a day at the same time we wanted to go much further and that's why Android queue includes almost 50 features focused on security and privacy all providing more protection transparency and control so first in queue we brought privacy to the top level in settings and there you'll find a number of important controls all in one place activity data location history add settings and you decide what's on or off so first if you're wondering which apps can be accessing your location we make it easy for you to know with Q your device will give you helpful reminders whenever an app accesses location when you're not actively using that app so you can review and decide do you want to continue sharing or not second Q will give you more control over how you share location data with apps for example say you want to get pizza delivered you can choose to share your location only while the app is in use and as soon as you close you'll stop sharing location finally what if you're wondering what kind of location do all my apps have in queue we've brought location controls to the forefront in settings so you can quickly review every app and change location access with simple controls now your Android device gets regular up security updates already but you still have to wait for the release and you have to reboot when they come we want you to get these faster even faster and that's why in queue we're making a set of OS modules updatable directly over the air so now these can be updated individually as soon as they are available and without a reboot of the device introducing nest hub max it's a new product that has a camera in a larger 10 inch display which is perfect for the center of your helpful home hub max pulls together your connected devices together into a home view dashboard where you can see your nest cams you can switch on lights control your music and adjust your thermostat hub max also supports thread so just like nest connect it communicates directly with thread supported devices that need a low-power connection like door locks or motion sensors and we've designed hub max with an incredibly helpful camera if you want to know what's going on in your home you can choose to use it like a nest camp you can turn it on when you're away from home you can check on things right from the nest app in your phone and just like a nest cam it's easy to see your vent history enable home-and-away assist and you also get a notification if the camera detects any motion or see someone it doesn't recognize in your home now video calling is easy too with Google duo the camera has a wide-angle lens and it automatically adjusts to keep you centered in the frame you can chat with any iOS or Android device or a PC with a Chrome browser you can also you also use duo to leave video messages for members of your household hub max is designed to give you full control over the camera nothing is streamed or recorded unless you intentionally enable it and you'll always know in the camera's on with a green indicator light you have multiple controls to disable camera features and a physical switch on the back electrically disconnects the camera on the microphones and you can see all these controls clearly on the display pixel 3a comes in three colors just black clearly white and a new color purple-ish but what pixel is really known for is this incredible camera and with software optimizations we found a way to bring our exclusive camera features and our industry-leading image quality into pixel three a so photos look stunning in any light so here's what that means pixel three a can take amazing photos in low light with night sight we've also enabled pixels portrait mode on both the front and rear cameras and our super resume applies computational photography so you can get closer to your subject while still maintaining a high degree of resolution and all of your beautiful photos are backed up for free in high quality with Google photos pixel 3ei also has the helpful features you'd expect in a pixel just squeeze the sides of your phone to bring up the Google assistant we're using the AI in pixel 3 a to help manage your phone calls too now you might remember last year we shared our vision for using AR in Google Maps starting today on pixel phones when you use walking directions instead of staring at that blue dot on your phone you're going to see arrows in the real world to tell you where to turn we're just beginning our journey with AR and maps and we're really excited for pixel users to experience this early preview pixel 3a has adaptive battery uses machine learning to optimize based on how you use your phone so you can get up to thirty hours on a single charge and with the included 18 watt charger you'll get up to seven hours of battery life with just 15 minutes of charging pixel 3a offers the complete pixel experience and we're proud to make it available and affordable to more people around the world and for the first time we're expanding our US carrier partnerships so the entire pixel family is now available for sale at t-mobile Sprint and US Cellularwhether you're learning about the solar system or trying to choose a color scheme for your home seeing is often understanding now sometimes though the things that you're interested in they're difficult to describe in a search box so that's why we created Google lense to help you search and do more with what you see by simply pointing your camera say you're at a restaurant trying to figure out what to order instead of going from the menu to different apps on the phone and back to the menu and so on you can simply point your camera lens automatically highlights the popular dishes at this restaurant right on the menu and of course if you want to know more you can tap on any dish on the menu and you can see what it looks like again at the restaurant by the way when you're done eating lens can help pay for your meal not so fast it's not picking up your tab but it can calculate the tip and even split the total but we're starting to think of other ways that we can connect helpful digital information with the things in the physical world so I'm going to give you just one example so you're flipping through a Bon Appetit magazine and you see a recipe you like soon you can point your camera at the recipe and see the page come alive showing you how to make the dish around the world there are more than 800 million adults for struggling to read the words that they come across in their daily lives take this sign in English next to an ATM now for someone who does not understand the language and cannot read the words this is important information that they're not getting access to so directly from the Google search bar you can use lens open it pointed at the sign to hear the text read out aloud to you information for card holders customers using old proprietary magnetic stripe card should be advice you can also translate it into your own language like this and again you can hit listen and hear the words read out loud this time in your own language información para los titulares de lattre que de duplex was launched with restaurant reservations on the phone but now we are moving beyond voice and extending duplex to tasks on the web we again want to focus on narrow use cases to start so we are looking at rental car bookings as well as movie ticketing say you get a calendar reminder about an upcoming trip and you want to book a rental car you can just ask Google book a national car rental for my next trip the assistant opens the national website and automatically starts filling out your information on your behalf once all the details are in you can check everything one last time and just tap to finalize the reservation you'll immediately get a booking confirmation now internally we've been calling this the next generation assistant running on device it can process and understand requests in real time and deliver the answers up to 10 times faster now Maggie's here and she's gonna help us test it out starting with some back-to-back commands to demonstrate its speed hey Google open calendar open calculator open photos set a timer for 10 minutes what's the weather today what about tomorrow show me John Legend on Twitter get a lift ride to my hotel turn the flashlight on turn it off take a selfie now be like an effortless way to operate your phone you can start to imagine how the assistant fused into the device could orchestrate tasks across apps show me my photos from Yellowstone the ones with animals send it to Justin all right now another example is when a friend asks you a question and you need to look up the information to respond Justin wanted to know when Maggie's flight arrives when's my flight reply I should get in around 1:00 p.m. now you can even imagine this next generation assistant handling more complex speech scenarios like composing and sending an email hey Google send an email to Jessica hi Jessica I just got back from Yellowstone and completely fell in love with it set subject to Yellowstone adventures let me know if next weekend works for dinner so I can tell you all about it now I'd like to show you the future of how we're improving your mobile driving experience even more introducing the assistance new driving mode just put your phone in the car and say hey Google let's drive driving mode has a thoughtfully designed dashboard that brings your most relevant activities front and center while you're driving and includes suggestions personalized for you for example if you have a dinner reservation on your calendar you'll see a convenient shortcut to navigate to the restaurant or if you started a podcast at home in the morning once you get in your car it'll display a shortcut to resume the episode right where you left off now it also highlights top contacts making easy to call them or message them and recommendations for other things to listen to now once you're navigating phone calls and music appear in a low-profile way so you can get things done without leaving your navigation screen hey Google play some jazz sure check out this jazz music station on YouTube music now everything is voice enabled so if a call comes in the assistant will tell you who's calling and ask if you want to answer without having to take your eyes off the road call from mom do you want to pick it up no thanks today you can already find all your privacy and security settings in one place in your Google account if you tap on your profile photo in addition defining easy access to your privacy controls you'll find a new feature incognito mode incognito mode as a pop has been a popular feature in Chrome since it launched and we are bringing this to maps while in incognito in maps your activity like the places you search and navigate to won't be linked to your account we want to make it easy to enter in and out of incognito and maps will soon join Chrome and YouTube with support for incognito and we'll be bringing it to search as well this year we are announcing a new feature called live caption live caption makes all content no matter its origin more accessible to everyone incredible thing is that it works completely on device so there's no delay with one click you can turn on captions for a web video podcast or even on a moment you capture at home only possible due to our recent breakthroughs in speech recognition technology now the same on device machine-learning powers another useful cue feature which is smart reply with smart reply the OS helpfully suggests what you'll type next it'll predict the text you'll type even emoji and it's a huge time-saver what's really cool is this works now for all messaging apps and Android like in signal you can see the OS providing these helpful suggestions and smart reply can now even predict the actions that you'll take so say a friend sends you an address and normally you copy and paste that into maps that's kind of a hassle with smart reply you just tap and it will open for you and all this is saving you time on device machine learning powers everything from these incredible breakthroughs like live caption to helpful everyday features like smart reply and it does this with no user input ever leaving the phone all of which protects user privacy now there's one more addition to Android queue that's small but you've been asking us about for a while and that is dark theme and we're launching it and cue so you can activate it by using the quick tile or by turning on battery saver and in fact it will help you save battery your OLED display is one of the most power hungry components in your phone so by lighting up less pixels will save you better an Android has the most widely deployed security and anti-malware service of any OS with Google Play protect it runs on every device and it scans over 50 billion apps a day at the same time we wanted to go much further and that's why Android queue includes almost 50 features focused on security and privacy all providing more protection transparency and control so first in queue we brought privacy to the top level in settings and there you'll find a number of important controls all in one place activity data location history add settings and you decide what's on or off so first if you're wondering which apps can be accessing your location we make it easy for you to know with Q your device will give you helpful reminders whenever an app accesses location when you're not actively using that app so you can review and decide do you want to continue sharing or not second Q will give you more control over how you share location data with apps for example say you want to get pizza delivered you can choose to share your location only while the app is in use and as soon as you close you'll stop sharing location finally what if you're wondering what kind of location do all my apps have in queue we've brought location controls to the forefront in settings so you can quickly review every app and change location access with simple controls now your Android device gets regular up security updates already but you still have to wait for the release and you have to reboot when they come we want you to get these faster even faster and that's why in queue we're making a set of OS modules updatable directly over the air so now these can be updated individually as soon as they are available and without a reboot of the device introducing nest hub max it's a new product that has a camera in a larger 10 inch display which is perfect for the center of your helpful home hub max pulls together your connected devices together into a home view dashboard where you can see your nest cams you can switch on lights control your music and adjust your thermostat hub max also supports thread so just like nest connect it communicates directly with thread supported devices that need a low-power connection like door locks or motion sensors and we've designed hub max with an incredibly helpful camera if you want to know what's going on in your home you can choose to use it like a nest camp you can turn it on when you're away from home you can check on things right from the nest app in your phone and just like a nest cam it's easy to see your vent history enable home-and-away assist and you also get a notification if the camera detects any motion or see someone it doesn't recognize in your home now video calling is easy too with Google duo the camera has a wide-angle lens and it automatically adjusts to keep you centered in the frame you can chat with any iOS or Android device or a PC with a Chrome browser you can also you also use duo to leave video messages for members of your household hub max is designed to give you full control over the camera nothing is streamed or recorded unless you intentionally enable it and you'll always know in the camera's on with a green indicator light you have multiple controls to disable camera features and a physical switch on the back electrically disconnects the camera on the microphones and you can see all these controls clearly on the display pixel 3a comes in three colors just black clearly white and a new color purple-ish but what pixel is really known for is this incredible camera and with software optimizations we found a way to bring our exclusive camera features and our industry-leading image quality into pixel three a so photos look stunning in any light so here's what that means pixel three a can take amazing photos in low light with night sight we've also enabled pixels portrait mode on both the front and rear cameras and our super resume applies computational photography so you can get closer to your subject while still maintaining a high degree of resolution and all of your beautiful photos are backed up for free in high quality with Google photos pixel 3ei also has the helpful features you'd expect in a pixel just squeeze the sides of your phone to bring up the Google assistant we're using the AI in pixel 3 a to help manage your phone calls too now you might remember last year we shared our vision for using AR in Google Maps starting today on pixel phones when you use walking directions instead of staring at that blue dot on your phone you're going to see arrows in the real world to tell you where to turn we're just beginning our journey with AR and maps and we're really excited for pixel users to experience this early preview pixel 3a has adaptive battery uses machine learning to optimize based on how you use your phone so you can get up to thirty hours on a single charge and with the included 18 watt charger you'll get up to seven hours of battery life with just 15 minutes of charging pixel 3a offers the complete pixel experience and we're proud to make it available and affordable to more people around the world and for the first time we're expanding our US carrier partnerships so the entire pixel family is now available for sale at t-mobile Sprint and US Cellular\n"