Put on OS smartwatches are getting a brand new single-note Google Maintain tile. It permits you to choose a observe to show within the tile on a regular basis. Google introduced this characteristic at its I/O developer convention final month alongside a number of different updates for its smartwatch platform, a few of which have already been rolled out.
The brand new tile has a simplistic UI that asks you to “choose considered one of your notes to show within the tile”. A “Select observe” button permits you to choose the observe you wish to see on a regular basis subsequent to your watch’s homescreen. Tapping it opens the complete Google Maintain feed with pinned notes or lists showing on the prime. As soon as you choose a observe, it would present up within the tile. It really works equally to the Android homescreen widget added in March.
This characteristic is helpful for maintaining brief however essential notes helpful. That’s as a result of you may solely see 4 traces of a observe within the tile. In case your notes are longer, you’ll have to faucet on the tile to open the complete observe. This display permits you to take actions (Add reminder, Pin, or Archive) with out having to open the Google Maintain app. Nonetheless, swiping again doesn’t take you to the primary feed once more. It can exit the complete observe and return to the tile.
This Google Maintain tile assist background colours
People over at 9to5Google found that this tile helps background colours or photos. Nonetheless, including a picture background ‘simply makes the tile black,” the publication reviews. Tapping it nonetheless opens Google Maintain, although. Furthermore, the app permits you to add a number of single-note tiles. So when you discover this characteristic helpful, you may wish to add a number of tiles and take full benefit of it. It’d be even higher if Google added AOD (always-on show) assist for tiles, blurring the display when the wrist is down.
Nonetheless, this single-note tile for Google Carry on Put on OS ought to quickly be out there to you. It’s rolling out by way of a server-side replace, with model 5.23.202.03.97 or newer of the app confirmed to be the appropriate model. This replace follows the addition of a observe creation tile in August final 12 months. Google has additionally just lately pushed a number of updates to the Android model of Maintain. Coinciding with this Put on OS launch, the Android app is getting extra Materials You design components. These embody rounded corners for the navigation drawer and pill-shaped toggles in settings.