Nuance Communications, the makers of Swype Keyboard today announced that they are discontinuing the Keyboard for Android and iOS. According to a Reddit user who reached out to Nuance with a crashing issue has received a reply saying that they are ending the development. Continue reading “Swype Keyboard for Android discontinued”
LastPass password manager for Android has finally received Android Oreo autofill support. Accessibility option is still available for Older apps and Chrome that don’t support the new implementation. LastPass v4.4.1749 brings you an option to turn on Oreo autofill by going to Settings > Autofill. Continue reading “LastPass finally gets Android Oreo autofill support”
Facebook introduced community crisis response over a year ago making it easier for people to ask for and give help during a crisis. Today it has announced that it is also including organizations and businesses to help the community and respond plausibly. Continue reading “Facebook now includes organizations and businesses in community help during crisis”
Google Maps for iOS has been updated today adding few new features like real-time commuting info, new menu buttons, places around you and more. The real-time commuting info was added to Android a year ago. Continue reading “Google Maps for iOS gets real-time commuting info, places around you and more”
After launching the Assistant Go, Gboard Go, YouTube Go, and Maps Go, Google today released the Gmail Go to phones with Low-RAM. The Go Edition apps are aimed at phones running on Android Go (Oreo Edition) Android operating system based on Oreo 8.1. Continue reading “Gmail Go for Android 8.1 phones with low RAM released”
Google introduced automated-replies to Inbox two year ago and later was also rolled to Gmail. These automated replies will guess what you might reply to the message and adds a button to send that response. While this feature is limited to messaging apps like Allo and Android Messages, Google is now said to be working on bringing this feature to other chat applications. Continue reading “Google is testing ‘Reply’ app to bring smart replies to messaging apps”
WhatsApp’s web client gets a new update which brings it to version number V0.2.8299. The latest update brings new login page design, deleting every reference about supported OS. On the other hand, WhatsApp for iPads to get voice calls support soon according to recent discoveries of Wabetainfo. Continue reading “WhatsApp web client gets new login design, WhatsApp for iPad to get voice calling support soon”
Instagram along with re-share feature is now said to be testing screenshot alerts of stories of others. With this new feature, Instagram will now show users when someone takes a screenshot of their story. Since it is a testing, it is only limited to selected users, and they are getting a warning that the user who posted the story will be notified the next time a screenshot is taken. Continue reading “Instagram is testing screenshot alerts for stories”
Back in January VLC V2.9 beta for Android introduced the long-awaited Chromecast support and today the feature is out of beta and is rolling out to the public in V3.0 in addition to other features like the fast seek, playlist files, bug fixes and more. Continue reading “VLC 3.0 for Android brings Chromecast support, fast seek, playlist files and more”
Android Messages has received a new update with version number V2.9. The update doesn’t bring any major U.I change but there quite a few additions that hint at upcoming features including Allo-like web interface, payments to businesses and more. Continue reading “Android Messages v2.9 hints at Allo-like web interface, payments to businesses and more”
Snapchat is rolling out few new features which now lets you create custom face lenses, new text caption styles for snaps. These face lenses are AR masks like puppy ears, flower crowns and more that overlay on your face. These lenses start at $9.99. It is available on the Snapchat desktop site, iOS app. Continue reading “Snapchat lets you create custom face lenses, gets new text caption styles”
Instagram is currently testing a new feature that lets you re-share public feed posts of whom you follow directly to your story. This feature will let you add commentary and overlaid stickers to a meme, celebrity post or even a friend’s photo according to TechCrunch. Continue reading “Instagram testing new feature that lets you share others’ posts to your story”
Google has just announced a new feature using which you can manually create themed movies via the app or the web. You can use the photos to create the movies where you can edit them, add music or just select the photos and ask Google to automatically create a movie for you which was available since quite some time now. Continue reading “Google photos now lets you manually create custom themed movies”
WhatsApp has been developing the ‘payments’ feature for quite some time now. In January we heard that the company will be rolling out the feature to users from February and since we are in February now, the Payment option is enabled to select WhatsApp beta users on Android and iOS. Continue reading “WhatsApp starts testing UPI-based WhatsApp Payments service in India”
Check for update button on Android does nothing expecting for manually checking for updates in case you haven’t got an update notification automatically. However, back in September manually pushing the check for button update on Nexus and Pixel phones would fetch an available update even if the background check wouldn’t. Continue reading “Google Play Services update brings fix for Android ‘Check for update’ button on Pixel/Nexus devices”
