Google made Android 17’s best feature a Pixel 11-exclusive. This free app does it better

Stroll lets me earn time on social media by walking first. Google made Android 17’s best feature a Pixel 11-exclusive. This free app does it better. Google made Android 17’s best feature a Pixel 11-exclusive.

This free app does it better Stroll lets me earn time on social media by walking first. If you weren’t so savvy about the (stealthy) upgrades — or the new colors — that it brings, you’d probably pass the phones off as the old Pixel 10 series. But if you do make the effort to inquire about the improvements the Pixel 11 brings, you’ll find a few good, handy additions.

A few of these include better control over the camera’s tones, the new, enticing Tap-to-Share, real-time translations for podcasts and videos, and more. One of my favorite inclusions is Android 17’s new Digital Wellbeing feature, called Pause Point. When enabled, it forces you to deliberate whether you truly want to open a possibly distracting app.

Back in June, we learned that WhatsApp was developing a Scam Alert feature, which Meta officially detailed over two weeks ago. While WhatsApp hasn’t yet revealed exactly when the Scam Alert feature will roll out to everyone, the public release shouldn’t be far off, as it’s now available to some Android users enrolled in WhatsApp’s beta program.

This revelation comes from the folks at WABetaInfo, who discovered this development on beta version 2.26.34.1 of WhatsApp for Android. As the name suggests, Scam Alert will warn users if an incoming message from an unknown sender appears to be a…

WhatsApp’s Scam Alert feature is now available to beta users on Android. WhatsApp’s Scam Alert feature is now available to beta users on Android – com news ADVERTISEMENT WhatsApp’s Scam Alert feature is now available to beta users on Android Post your comment Comments (2) Sagar 30 August 2026 WhatsApp Android Apps Online services Social networks Back in June, we learned that WhatsApp was developing a Scam Alert feature, which Meta officially detailed over two weeks ago.

When a WhatsApp user receives a Scam Alert warning, they can mark the sender as trusted or block and report them. If they mark the chat as trusted, they can also share the last five messages from that conversation with WhatsApp to help improve the feature’s accuracy.

To work, Scam Alert must be manually enabled in WhatsApp for Android’s Settings > Account menu, since the feature is optional. In an official blog post, Meta described WhatsApp’s Scam Alert as " a new, optional feature that runs an on-device machine learning model to alert a user about potential scam messages.