The latest version of Chrome Canary, ’s experimental “unstable” build of its mobile browser, includes a new option for Copyless ste, a feature previously rumored for Android O. According to the description, it will “provide suggestions for text input based on your recent context” to cut down on the amount of time you need to spend playing with text hles. ile the setting doesn’t seem to do much, that could be because it’s designed to work between apps. As describes, “For example, if you looked at a restaurant website switched to the Maps app, the keyboard would offer the name of that restaurant as a suggestion to enter into the search bar. The data is indexed locally never sent to the server.” Despite the data being confined to the device, the feature is disabled in incognito mode. ile little else is known about Copyless ste, presumably it would work with the Gboard keyboard across ’s suite of apps, though a previous Venture Beat report described the feature as working with the Yelp app as well. Apple introduced a similar feature in iOS 10 that used Siri’s smarts to automatically generate contextual suggestions like calendar events, contacts, locations in the default keyboard. Copy that: ’ve long had a love-hate relationship with text selection in Android, it’s nice to know that feels our pain. ile this feature will hardly eliminate the need to use it multiple times a day, it will cut down on how often we need to struggle with those tiny blue hles. And we’re all for that.
