Google Translate quietly added a dual-screen conversation mode for foldables
Google Translate’s dual-screen conversation mode doesn’t work on all foldable phones, though.
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- Google Translate has a dual-screen conversation mode that takes advantage of the outer display on foldable phones.
- This feature hasn’t been announced by Google and isn’t documented on any support pages.
- However, it only works on foldable phones from Google and Samsung.
The best foldable phones you can buy right now are quite expensive, so you may wonder how they would benefit you. One of the primary advantages of book-style foldables over slab phones is their outer display, which gives you the flexibility of using your foldable like a regular phone when it’s folded. The outer display on many foldables can also be used in tandem with the inner display when taking photos with the stock camera app, but there aren’t a lot of other apps that take advantage of the outer display. Google Translate is one app that does take advantage of the outer display on foldable phones, but it only does so on select devices.
When Google announced the Pixel Fold last year, one of the features it highlighted was the dual-screen interpreter mode. Dual-screen interpreter mode makes it easier to converse face-to-face with someone who speaks a different language. It shows a translation of what you’re saying on the outer screen and a translation of what the other person is saying on the inner screen. It’s accessed by calling up Google Assistant (and not Gemini) and then asking it to “turn on interpreter mode.”
