Second to important notifications, my Pixel’s Discover feed is the only other thing I check during my morning routine. Yes, I’m out looking for important stories, but admittedly, I’m also always hoping to catch a glimpse of my own work making it onto the feed.
I’d imagine those who prefer to stay in the loop also frequent the feed, and for those users, Google is rolling out a new feature that could change how they see they consume news.
Soon after trying out AI-generated summaries for articles in the Discover Feed, Google is now experimenting with giving users more control over what content, and more specifically, what languages they see that content in.
First pointed out by the folks over at Android Authority after digging into beta version 16.33.64 of the Google app, Google is reportedly testing out a new language selection interface.
For reference, up until now, Discover defaulted to your device’s primary language, with no option to manually surface content in other languages. You could change the primary language, but the app never really gave you an option to select more than one language. The new interface alludes to that limitation soon not being the case.
Multilinguists rejoice
Source: Android Authority
Current (left), potentially upcoming (middle and right)
From the looks of it, users will be able to select multiple languages for their content preference needs, with Google itself offering “suggested languages.” Said setting will show up in the Google app’s Language & region section.
For what it’s worth, the interface you see in the screenshots above isn’t live yet, and it isn’t entirely clear when Google will roll out support for selecting multiple Discover feed languages. Regardless, the fact that the UI could be manually enabled serves as enough proof that the feature is on the way.
