Recap: New Pixel apps and major updates in 2025
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Key Points:
- In 2025, Google expanded its portfolio of Pixel-exclusive apps, enhancing the user experience across multiple Pixel devices, not just the latest models.
- The new Journal app enables users to write daily entries enriched with images, videos, health data, and locations, incorporating AI for writing prompts and insights on patterns.
- Significant updates were made to existing apps like Recorder, which received a streamlined interface and new features such as music creation and NotebookLM integration, and Pixel Studio, which introduced AI-powered image editing tools.
- Pixel Weather gained native homescreen widgets, a pollen tracker for the US, and was launched on Pixel Watch with Wear OS 6, offering a full 10-day forecast.
- Other apps like Pixel Camera,
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