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Google announced its November software update for pixel phones called Pixel Drop, a quarterly feature

release that brings new capabilities to existing devices.

With features including notification summaries, a power-saving mode for the Maps app,

prompt-based edits for photos, and Gemini-Nanopowered photo edits in messages.

Apple introduced notification summaries with its Apple Intelligence suite of features last year.

Now, Google is catching up with its own

notification summaries for longer chats and conversations on Pixel 9 and later devices. The company

said that in December it'll roll out a feature that would silence low-priority notifications.

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