Twitter has added a new compose button to its official iOS mobile app that is designed for one-handed scrolling and tweet composing. Pressing and hold the icon gives you access to drafts, photos, and the GIF gallery. It is present on the bottom, it can be tapped to start composing a tweet. Continue reading “Twitter adds new floating compose button for iOS”
Back in August, WhatsApp was reported to display ads in the Status section, and now the company’s Vice President Chris Daniels confirmed that the company is going to put advertisements in its ‘Status’ feature. This clears the air on Facebook’s monetization efforts towards WhatsApp. Continue reading “WhatsApp Status to start showing ads soon, confirms Vice President Chris Daniels”
Twitter has announced that it is testing a new way to display Tweets in the feed. The company will now allow you to switch your timeline between the latest and top Tweets. This will bring the latest Tweets to the top in you want to know what’s been happening. Continue reading “Twitter testing ability to switch timeline between latest and top Tweets on iOS”
Google has introduced Emoji style Mini stickers for Gboard. These sticker versions of the emoji you use every day are customizable so you can make them look just like you. Minis use a combination of machine learning and artistry to create illustrated stickers based on your selfie. Continue reading “Gboard for Android and iOS gets Emoji-style Mini stickers that look like you”
The low-cost iPhone XR features some decent hardware including face unlock, edge-to-edge design, A12 Bionic chipset and more. However, when compared to the iPhone X, XS, XS Max, it falls short due to the lack of proper Portrait mode. It currently only works on people and not objects. However, the developers of popular camera app Halide, have found depth data on the iPhone XR and can enable Portrait mode for non-people. Continue reading “Halide camera app to bring portrait mode support for objects and pets on iPhone XR”
Google might be working on a new paid subscription service in Google Play which might be called “Play Pass.” Google hasn’t made any changes to PlayStore in the recent times and slightest of changes might take few months to roll out. Back in late June, there were reports about an in-development Play Store feature called “Play Pass.” Continue reading “Google said to be working on a subscription service called ‘Play Pass’”
Facebook is said to be working on a standalone app; Lasso where users can record and share videos of themselves lip-syncing or dancing to popular songs. The app is designed to be a standalone competitor to Musical.ly which later was acquired by Bytedance and re branded to TikTok. Continue reading “Facebook said to be working on TikTok-like Lasso video music app”
Earlier this year Google opened up Maps SDK to let game developers create real-world games. The new game to join the list is the; Ghostbusters World built with Google Maps. The game allows you to grab your virtual proton pack and bust ghosts. The game is brought to you by Sony Pictures Consumer Products, Ghost Corps, publisher FourThirtyThree Inc., and developer Next Age. Continue reading “Ghostbusters World open-world game with AR Mode released for Android and iOS”
Update – October 26: WhatsApp has officially announced the stickers feature through a blog post. It also said that it has added support for third-party sticker packs to allow designers and developers to create stickers for WhatsApp. To do this, it has included a set of APIs and interfaces that allow developers to build sticker apps that add stickers to WhatsApp on Android or iOS. This can be published like any other app to the Google Play Store or Apple App Store, and users who download and install the app will be able to start sending those stickers right from within WhatsApp
It said that Stickers will be available for Android and iPhone over the coming weeks.
Continue reading “WhatsApp Stickers finally starts rolling out [Update: Officially announced]”
[Update – October 25: WhatsApp has rolled out Swipe to Reply feature for all the Android users] Continue reading “WhatsApp beta for Android gets Picture-in-Picture mode for YouTube, Instagram, Facebook videos [Update: Swipe to Reply now available for all]”
Google has announced users can use Lens to search for information in an image like a landmark in a travel photo or wallpaper in a stylish room. Similar to Lens in the Google Assistant and Google Photos, Lens in Google Images identify things within an image you might want to learn about and shows you similar ones. Continue reading “Google rolls out support for Lens in Google Images”
Facebook has launched the ability to add Music on Facebook Stories and is expanding Lip Sync Live, and soon will be making it possible to add songs to your Profile. With this new additions, users can add a song to photos and videos they share to Facebook Stories. Continue reading “Facebook brings Music feature to profiles and Stories, expands Lip Sync Live to pages”
Mozilla today has released Firefox v63 that is mainly aimed at “removing cross-site tracking” which the company is calling Enhanced Tracking Protection. It is also rolling things out off-by-default and starting with third-party cookies. Continue reading “Mozilla Firefox 63 brings Enhanced tracking protection to block third-party cookies, search shortcuts and more”
Facebook today announced that it is rolling out a new, simplified version of Messenger dubbed Messenger 4. The company in a survey found that 7 out of 10 users say simplicity is the top priority in a messaging app. The new Messenger will have three tabs instead of nine; your conversations, both one-to-one and groups. Continue reading “Facebook Messenger 4 update with simplified navigation, customizable chat bubbles, dark mode and more rolling out”
OnePlus’s Switch app makes it easy for users to migrate their app data and stuff to a OnePlus phone provided you’re coming from a supported device. The app is getting a new update on Google PlayStore that brings the ability to migrate wallpapers and the app layout. Continue reading “OnePlus Switch brings support for migrating wallpapers, backup application data and more”
