Gboard’s grammar check is now available to everyone along with 2000 new Emoji Kitchen mashups
Debuting as a Pixel 6-exclusive feature, Gboard’s grammar checking started expanding to other Pixelsback in Februarywithout much fanfare. Now it seems Google says it’s officially expanding it widely to all Android phones. On top of that, Gboard is also getting over 2000 new Emoji Kitchen mashup combinations, with the fun formulaic stickers covering an even wider variety of expressions.
Google calls out examples like raining hotdogs, pretzel love, and new sparkly effects, with depicted examples further including a UFO beaming up a loving face and an alien with a cowboy hat. We don’t know all of the 2,000 combinations, but finding them and the wackiest examples is half the fun.
Google just recently updated Gboard to includenew tiger emoji mashupsas a way of ringing in the lunar new year and the year of the tiger. TheDecember 2021 Feature Dropalso added more new combinations — there’s almost always a new set to be found every month or two.
While the cooks in the Emoji Kitchen cook up the tastiest combinations, Gboard’s grammar check feature is a little less well known, probably because itonly recently debuted with the Pixel 6. The feature makes use of some pretty powerful machine learning skills, parsing your input fully on-device to respect your privacy and offering a blue underline and a prompt to correct the error.
Living down by the park orin a van down by the river?
In my experience, Gboardstillcan’t tell the difference between “its” and “it’s” reliably, but it’s another way to catch errors if you don’t type vary gaud.
App-decompiling leaker and researcher Jane Wong spotted the feature in development as early asJanuary of 2021. Aftersilently expanding to all Pixels last month, Google is now rolling it out toallAndroid phones everywhere.
This is just one piece of a whole chunk of announcements Google has today, from an expansion of portrait effects in Google Photos to more object types, a new screen time widget, iMessage reactions in Google Messages, and more.
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