Google's Now on Tap gets flights and package tracking, screenshot feature, related articles

Google has updated the Now on Tap feature for Android, adding some new functions. Now, if your friend or someone in your family sends you a text message with his flight number, you can simply tap and hold your phone's home button to get info on flight status.

In addition, if you're expecting any package, ordered online and have a email of the shipment on the screen, tapping and holding the home button will bring you the tracking information of your package, without the need to search manually.

Now on Tap will now display related articles when your reading the news. To get related articles you will have to tap and hold the button to get more links. The latest update also brings support for French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Korean languages. The new features will rolled out in the coming days.

Google recently rolled out an update to Now on Tap, making it easier to take screenshots and share it, which gets automatically deleted. This can be done through the share icon, by tapping it, you will get a temporary screenshot that you can share through Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, or any other apps that use sharing feature. Once the screenshot is shared, it disappears or if you wish to keep it, you can do so by simply sharing it on Google Photos or Gallery.

Introduced along with Android Marshmallow the Now on Tap is part of Google Now, and analyzes the content on your screen and then turn around to offer you contextual information.

Kaiser Bey

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