Published May 6, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT Rob LeFebvre is an editor and writer focusing on consumer and enterprise technologies for a broad range of outlets. He’s been writing online for more than 15 years; before that he was a special educator for kids with severe disabilities. Rob has been an Editorial Director at Lifewire, a news writer at Engadget, and a senior contributor at Cult of Mac. He's written about PCs, Macs, mobile phones, and games, created newsrooms from the ground up, and has extensive experience reviewing hardware, software, and games across his career.  When I'm out and about with my Pixel 9, I tend to deal with the built-in software as too basic. I've used a ton of apps for things like meeting transcriptions, song identification, spam calls, and other stuff that either require a download or even a fee in some cases. However, as I've been looking at Google's quarterly feature drops, I realized that maybe I didn't have to keep finding apps: much of what I need is already on the Pixel.…