Gboard 7.3 Beta Build for Android Comes With Battery Saver, Image Annotations and More

The Gboard keyboard app by Google has been the favourite keyboard app for many Android users around the globe. Google has constantly been able to innovate it and has filled it with quirky and useful features thanks to its monthly updates. Speculations have come up that Google is now looking to advance the version of Gboard and is also testing new features for Gboard using a Beta build. The new Beta build of the Gboard which can soon see a widespread release pushes the version of the app to 7.3. There are many new features like OCR tools, battery saver mode, a custom text which come as a part of this new Beta build.

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9to5google reported that some more features which might come as the part of the stable build are still in development. On decompiling the several lines of code which make up the APK, the experts found places where new features could show up in the future. The highlighting feature of this new update for Gboard is a battery saver option, which on manual toggle by the user will shift to a dark theme and will disable Bitmoji and emoji to save power.

The reports are also hinting towards an optical character recognition feature that can accompany other features on Gboard like GIF, Google Translate, and stickers. As per the report, the feature can be used to click an image, with Gboard working to grab the text for copying and pasting. This feature resembles the one on Google Lens, however, this one could come into use while the users are typing something.