A couple of months ago, Twitter began testing a new feature called Tips that would allow users to directly send money to their favourite account. The company has now begun rolling out the feature to iOS users first, supporting multiple payment services and multiple types of currency, including crypto.
realme today announced the launch of realme Band 2, the company’s second generation smart band as the successor to the last year’s realme Band in India on September 24th. This was launched in Malaysia earlier this week. The design of the screen resembles the HONOR Band 6 / HUAWEI Band 6, but this has a 1.4-inch LCD screen compared to AMOLED screen in the HONOR Band 6. Continue reading “realme Band 2 with 1.4-inch color touch display, SpO2 monitoring and realme Smart TV Neo 32″ launching in India on September 24”
Facebook-owned WhatsApp has been constantly adding new features to its platform like the recent iPhone to Android chat history transfer. Following that, the company is all set to introduce end-to-end encrypted backups soon. Continue reading “WhatsApp to introduce end-to-end encrypted backups on iOS and Android soon”
Twitter is testing yet another visual tweak to their mobile experience on iOS, where videos, photos and GIFs will now stretch from edge-to-edge on the display. The test comes nearly a month after Twitter introduced a number of visual changes on both its mobile and web platforms.
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After months of development, WhatsApp finally began rolling out their cross-platform chat migration feature last week, however it was limited to iOS to Android transfer and supported on Samsung smartphones at the time. Now, the latest WhatsApp beta v2.21.19.1 for Android has now revealed that the company is working on the ability to migrate the chat history from Android to iOS too.
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Facebook-owned WhatsApp has been constantly adding new features to its platform like the recent iPhone to Android chat history transfer. Following that now, the company is reworking the privacy settings and is testing new options on the iOS and Android apps. Continue reading “WhatsApp will soon let users hide ‘last seen’ from specific contacts”
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has finished the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) investigation it conducted on WhatsApp in Ireland that commenced in December 2018. This was to examine whether WhatsApp has discharged its GDPR transparency obligations with regard to the provision of information and the transparency of that information to both users and non-users of WhatsApp’s service. Continue reading “WhatsApp hit with €225 million fine for breaching EU privacy law”
Update: WhatsApp has started rolling out the ability to move WhatsApp history from iOS to Android, finally. This includes voice messages, photos and videos. As announced earlier, this feature is available for Samsung devices running Android 10 or higher, and will be available on more Android devices soon. Continue reading “WhatsApp iPhone to Android chat history transfer starts rolling out”
Telegram is rolling out a major update to their messaging service that adds a number of new features, bringing the version to v8.0. These include Live Streaming capabilities for unlimited people, the ability to preview messages before forwarding, larger thumbnails when scrolling the sticker set bar and more.
Continue reading “Telegram v8.0 update adds Unlimited Live Streams, Flexible Forwarding and more”
Clubhouse has added a new spatial audio feature that lets you hear the people around you in a room in 3D. The company says that it makes the experience a bit more lifelike and human, and adds that it is also easier for your brain to track who is talking with subtle spatial cues. Continue reading “Clubhouse spatial audio feature rolling for iOS, coming to Android soon”
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, video conferencing applications like Zoom became very popular among users and saw a surge in usage. The company has been adding new features with every update and similarly, now, the latest update adds new features like Focus Mode, Transfer Meetings, and more. Continue reading “Zoom update adds Focus Mode, Transfer Meetings, Limit Screen Sharing and more”
About a month ago, Netflix announced that they will begin foraying into the mobile gaming market, signalling a major change in the company’s direction from purely content streaming. The company has now begun testing this with users in Poland, with the rollout of two games based on the Netflix original series – Stranger Things.
Facebook Messenger is about to hit its 10th anniversary and to celebrate it, the company has announced 10 new features for the app. The updates include Poll Games, a new birthday chat theme, a new way to share contacts, word effects and more.
Continue reading “Facebook Messenger update adds Poll Games, Cash Gifting via Facebook Pay and more”
Lately, Apple has been making a huge push for Spatial audio support across their devices and services, such as Apple Music. The feature is now appearing in third-party apps as Netflix has begun rolling out an update that enables Spatial audio in their iOS and iPadOS apps.
Continue reading “Netflix for iPad and iOS update adds support for Spatial Audio”
Twitter appears to be quite invested in their their Spaces feature as they have announced new features in the Twitter API that will provide developers with tools to make Spaces more discoverable. Along with this, Twitter is also working on features for the future such as reminders and various tools for Spaces Hosts.
