He started following the industry for his pleasure around 2014 before eventually taking up a writing role with Android Police. When Haroun was younger, he wanted to be a doctor - he still wants to be one - but the tech bug also bit him. How did it all start, though? The story of his affinity for tech takes us back to a time long ago. His curiosity is only limited by the gadgets he has to play with at any given time. Since then, he’s gleefully covered everything from the most mundane Google Docs features to more mainstream Android and Chrome OS experiences, but he can’t seem to get enough. Haroun joined Android Police in 2021, reporting on the latest stories in the tech world. Speaking of revamps, we’re still waiting for Google’s promised update that’ll improve 'instant translation, captured image translation, and imported photo translation' on Android.

Google Translate has received several quality-of-life updates recently, especially with the app’s Material You revamp rolling out to non-Pixel users. You can download the latest version of Translate on APKMirror to try out the new auto language switch. We can confirm that the feature is live on version 6.33 of Google Translate and is compatible with the current stable release of Gboard. This update makes things that much easier.

In the past, you could always tap the globe icon just to the left of the space bar if the language to be translated was one of your chosen system languages - otherwise, you had to go into Gboard settings to select it manually. Finally, Gboard will immediately switch back to your default language after you exit the translation screen. Similarly, if you change to a different language, say Spanish, the Keyboard will auto-switch from whatever language it was in before to Spanish.

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