Google Drive now works much better on foldable phones

If you have a foldable smartphone that folds like a book, you’re in luck: Google Drive is getting a new view on those devices. Google is optimizing its apps for larger screens more often and now Google Drive is getting that treatment.

Google Drive on the foldable

Handy when the Pixel Fold is out soon: you can now expect a better display of Google Drive on phones that open like a book. A difference is made between how you hold the phone: is it closed, is it open or is it partially open? Google Drive shows different navigation options depending on how you hold your phone. You can see the different options below:

For example, if you have a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4, you can more easily navigate through the documents within Google Drive. In addition, there is another adjustment: Google Docs is now displayed with pages and page breaks by default, so that the design in the web version and the mobile version is more similar. If you don’t want that, you can set a document to pageless mode yourself. Incidentally, with Google Docs, the navigation does not change depending on how you use your foldable: it is always at the top.

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If you don’t have it yet, it may take a while: Google takes 15 days to fully roll out the updates. In any case, it is nice to see that Google is thinking about how apps are used on larger devices that can also fold. We’ve seen that before with Google Play Books, where you see a new two-column layout. That is probably just the tip of the iceberg because especially with Pixel Fold on the program, Google will want its own apps to match the folding phone experience as perfectly as possible.

Do you use a foldable and are you waiting for these kinds of adjustments? Leave it now in the comments.