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Google Updates a Bunch of Wear OS Apps for Galaxy Watch 4, But There’s Bad News

Kellen August 11, 2021 23

Samsung just announced the Galaxy Watch 4 line with the new Wear OS 3 platform and Google then followed up to talk about new experiences they'll launch with it. They mostly revealed a bunch of big app updates that'll work on Wear OS 3 watches, but also...

Old Google Pay App Now Just a Payment Machine

Kellen July 21, 2021 11

About a month ago, Google said that it was close to stripping the old Google Pay of any useful feature, leaving you little reason to keep it on your phone. We noted at the time that the only real feature remaining was the NFC payment portion, where you could...

You Can Now Pay In-Store With Your Google Pay Balance

Tim July 8, 2021 7

Google is now rolling out a new feature for Google Pay users in the US, allowing them to use a new virtual card tied to their Pay balance to pay for goods in-store using their Android device via NFC. This feature is rolling out now to all eligible Android...

Google Adds Way to Store Digital COVID Vaccination Card to Phones

Kellen June 30, 2021 39

You could soon be able to officially store your COVID vaccination card digitally on your phone, thanks to an update Google pushed out today. By updating the Passes API on Android, Google is allowing vaccination and test cards to be stored on Android phones in...

The Old Google Pay App is so Close to Being Worthless Now

Kellen June 15, 2021 6

The old Google Pay has been in free fall for a couple of months now as Google has slowly shutdown features from it and pushed users to the new app. They first targeted the extremely useful web portal (without a replacement) before moving onto send/receive...

Old Google Pay App Loses Ability to Claim Funds

Kellen June 1, 2021 5

The poor old Google Pay app continues to shed features as Google tries to push users over to the new app. After first losing its send/receive functionality last month, Google is now taking away the functionality that let you claim funds received. In a note...

You Can Now Send Money to Select Countries Using Google Pay

Tim May 11, 2021 4

Google announced today that it has opened up the ability to send your money abroad using Google Pay. For now, you can only send money to India and Singapore using either Western Union or Wise, but soon, Google hopes to offer international transfers in more...

Google Killed the Old Google Pay’s Ability to Send and Receive Money Today

Kellen May 10, 2021 31

Google had originally scheduled April 5 to be the end of the Google Pay website and the ability to send/receive money in the old Pay app. They let that date slip without setting a new end date for us to target and those of us who use it, have continued to...