Now Playing spent years as a Pixel-exclusive feature buried in the lock screen, and now Google is putting it on the Play Store as a standalone app. That is a long way to travel for something that started as a demo feature to show off the Pixel's on-device ML chops. At least now anyone with a phone can use it instead of needing a Pixel to unlock what Google was calling a selling point two years ago.
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2026
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