New handwriting input support for more languages added to Translate

Mar 7, 2014 11:46 GMT  ·  By

Search giant Google has deployed not one, not two, not three, but four updates for its iOS customers today, offering improvements and fixes to its Translate, Hangouts, Drive, and Play Music apps.

Google Translate 2.1.1 addresses an issue with the status bar text color and includes stability fixes. The software now offers handwriting input support for more languages, including Bosnian, Cebuano, Hmong, Kannada, Somali, and Tamil.

Hangouts 2.0.1 arrives with a bag of “bug fixes and performance improvements,” following a recent update (2.0.0, released in February), which added full iPad support, picture-in-picture video calling, animated stickers, the ability to record and send video messages up to 10 seconds long, iOS 7 optimizations, and an option to send people a map of your current location.

Google Drive 2.2.3 is the latest version of Google’s cloud app that lets you keep your digital life stored on the search giant’s servers, making it accessible to you from every corner of the world with a simple user name and password. The newest version simply fixes a bug that affected certain file types (Google doesn’t actually say which ones).

Finally, Google Play Music 1.1.2.1226 gets a new round of bug fixes following a recent release (in February), which addressed disappearing downloads and streaming issues.