Apps & Services
Samsung updates its stock phone and contacts apps
Samsung always gives more importance to its stock applications and regularly brings improvements to them; from those, the phone and contacts are basic but crucial applications for its devices. The phone application provides an intuitive interface with all the details that help users make calls, while the contacts application offers all the useful features that allow users to manage their contacts. Both of the apps store the personal information of the users so as to provide them with security. Samsung frequently rolls out new updates.
Samsung applied a new stabilized patch for these applications
Every month, Samsung brings new security enhancements for its applications, which the phone and the contacts application primarily get frequently. With the new update, the company is now rolling out a new update for these apps with the aim of enhancing the stabilization of internal functions and also providing new security. The latest update for Samsung’s Phone app and contacts apps is sharing the same version number, 14.7.34.
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Samsung generally updates these apps automatically as they are the most important part of the devices, but if you find that these devices haven’t been updated to the latest version, you can manually do it by going to the Galaxy Store and searching the name of this application there. In case you are not getting the original apps in the search results, you can directly go to the official Galaxy Store page through these links: Samsung Phone and Samsung Contacts.
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Samsung has improved its ecosystem. This all happened because of its OneUI skin. By providing new features, the company always tries to bring more convenience to its users. The Samsung Phone and Contacts are also equipped with its skin design, which makes the interface more interactive and easy to use. It is also worth noticing that Samsung has also designed a separate ditto application for both applications for its Galaxy watches, which makes them easy to connect.
Samsung has released a new update for the “Samsung Core Services” application, version 3.1.01.1. With the latest update, the company has brought many significant changes to its applications, but they will surely improve their functionality.
According to the changelog, the latest update for the Samsung Core Services application includes new improvements, minor bug fixes, and some device performance enhancements.
For your information, Samsung Core Services is an application that provides the primary features used by Samsung applications quickly and easily through application updates, as opposed to software updates.
If you want to get the constant service of the Korean giant’s original application, then you should keep the “Samsung Core Services” application up-to-date. To do that, simply go to the Galaxy Store, select the menu option, then tap on the update option. If the update is available, tap the update button.
For starters, the Samsung Core Services application gives several utility options, such as Samsung Search. It provides a device search engine platform that enhances the functionality of various Samsung applications, including Contacts, Settings, and Finder. Along with this, the application also offers query suggestions to users, manages the incoming message, and extracts the verification to provide inline suggestions in the keyboard.
Samsung is delicately providing photo editing tools under the Gallery application. It has recently introduced some new features with the One UI 6.1 update, which also brings enhancements to the photo editing features. To maintain its stability, the company has released a new update.
Samsung Photo Editor Update
The Samsung photo editor update is coming with the firmware version number 3.4.21.45. The latest update doesn’t get any official description about the changes, but it is expected that the update will improve some functional improvements that will enhance the working of the editing features.
If you are having any issues editing photos through the default photo editor after installing One UI 6.1, then you should check out the latest update from the Galaxy Store. It is worth noting that the update comes with a software package of 51.81 MB and is limited to Galaxy devices running Android 14 and One UI 6.0 or above.
Samsung’s photo editor offers a variety of tools that allow users to easily edit photos in various ways. Use the transformation menu for concision edits such as changing angles, resizing, and more, as well as different filters from the menu to change the overall feel of your photo. Along with this, there are multiple features available that will help you give the photo a whole new touch, and Samsung frequently adds new features from time to time, so keep the application up-to-date to get a better experience.
Google is not only responsible for providing major software support for Android devices, but it is also continuously working to enhance some utility features through its original applications. One such example is Google Photos, which has recently introduced several AI features that help to quickly edit photos and provide some features to manage videos. Recently, the company has introduced the ‘Carousel’ element, which adds innovative photo exploration to the application.
Google has brought a new update for its multimedia manager application, Google Photos. It is spotted on the Play Store with the version number 6.81. With the software update, the company has made a new change to the main screen of the application. After installing the latest update, when the user opens the application, it will provide a fresh experience while scrolling through images on the main screen.
Carousel gets a new effect and gives a new photo-exploring experience
With the new update, Google has introduced a new ‘Carousel’ component of the Material 3 library. Now, when you scroll, it offers a smooth parallax effect, which is different from normal scrolling. The component is stacked on top of the screen, which gives you the opportunity to revisit old memories with different tabs. To get the new scrolling tab, you just need to update the application to the latest version.
How to update Google Photos
Google Photos update is now available to download. Users can easily install the latest update via the Google Play Store. To directly jump to the download page, you can use this link, or you can also usually go to the Google Play Store and search for Google Photos.