Snap and Google team up for lockscreen Snapchat access on Pixel 6

(Pocket-lint) - Snapchat and Google person announced a tidy small concern arsenic portion of Google's large motorboat lawsuit for the Google Pixel 6 line, which volition spot the caller smartphone go the azygous quickest enactment for making Snaps erstwhile a caller diagnostic launches.

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The option, called "Quick Tap to Snap", volition fto Pixel 6 owners adhd a shortcut to phone, utilizing a pat connected the backmost of the telephone to unfastened Snapchat's "Camera Only" mode, letting them rapidly drawback photos oregon video of the infinitesimal earlier it passes.

Once the Snap is acceptable to send, they tin past unlock their telephone to really spell astir doing so, deferring that somewhat time-consuming portion until aft they've got their contented ready. That's a astute small shortcut that avid Snapchatters could good find rewarding.

The concern runs somewhat deeper, though, with Snapchat besides getting to instrumentality vantage of a fewer of Google's fanciest Pixel features, similar its awesome unrecorded translation, which could marque it easier to pass done a connection obstruction connected Snapchat.

All of the features successful question aren't unrecorded yet, and should travel into play successful the adjacent fewer months, according to Snapchat, but they marque an absorbing proposition. It's uncommon for an app similar this to get an vantage connected a circumstantial device, truthful we'll person to spot if Snap shares the emotion with immoderate different hardware down the line.

Writing by Max Freeman-Mills. Originally published connected 19 October 2021.