Android smartphone will soon get new auto-zoom feature, will be able to scan QR code faster

From restaurant menus to boarding passes, QR codes are everywhere these days. In India, these are a must for faster UPI payments. But scanning them can be a hassle, especially if they're too far away or too small to read.
Now, Google is addressing this problem and working on a new feature that should make QR code scanning faster and easier on Android phones. Let us tell you about this new feature in detail.
The feature uses Google's machine learning to automatically detect a QR code in the camera frame, zoom in, and read it. The feature isn't available to users yet, but it's part of a new API that Google is rolling out to developers.
The Code Scanner API allows developers to use Google's QR code scanner system app without requesting camera permissions or creating custom experiences.
The auto-zoom feature could potentially make its way to devices running Android 13 or newer as their QR code scanners use the same ML Kit barcode scanning library where the feature is being added.
The feature's performance on low-end Android phones with poor cameras remains uneven, as well as its availability on non-Pixel devices remains uncertain. But it's a cool feature, and we hope to see it in more apps and devices soon.
The company is making changes to its Results about you tool launched last year. When it was released, the tool gave users the ability to remove private information such as personal phone numbers, home addresses, and email addresses from Google searches.
The same tool has now been developed and will automatically monitor new personal information arriving on the Internet and alert users so that it can be removed. One thing you will notice is that the service is not fully automatic, but it may be updated in the future.