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At the Bloomberg Technology Summit in May 2024, Microsoft’s President for Xbox, Sarah Bond, announced that Microsoft would launch an app distribution platform for Android and iOS in July 2024 where it will offer first-party and third-party games. She added that the brand would launch the store as a website rather than an app. Well, […]
Earlier this year, Google merged Android’s Nearby Share into Samsung’s Quick Share. It allows people to transfer photos, videos, documents, and all types of files from one Android device to another nearby Android device wirelessly over Wi-Fi Direct (which doesn’t use the internet). Around the same time, Meta introduced a feature in the beta version […]
Currently, WhatsApp allows you to transfer data from one Android device to another Android device, from one iPhone to another iPhone, from an Android device to an iPhone, and from an iPhone to an Android device. Unfortunately, each of the four ways to transfer data has a different process. Plus, some of these processes require […]
Apple and Google have been working on developing an industry specification to detect unwanted location-tracking devices for quite some time now. Well, the two companies have completed the development and finally launched the specification. It’s called ‘Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers.’ Apple is implementing this specification on iPhones with iOS 17.5, which it started rolling out […]
A few days ago, Meta started rolling out an update to WhatsApp for Android which brought a completely new user interface to the messaging platform that’s more convenient to use, offers new features, and looks cleaner and more modern. However, the company hadn’t made any announcement regarding it back then, most likely because it hadn’t […]
WhatsApp has a search bar that allows you to search for contacts, chats, messages, and files. But what if you want to see the list of unread chats or group chats? Unfortunately, the messaging platform doesn’t give you an option to filter chats. Fortunately, that’s changing today. Meta has introduced Chat Filters in WhatsApp which […]
Google Photos on Android and iOS offers many useful AI-powered editing tools. However, these features are available only on Pixel devices and only for accounts that have subscribed to Google One (paid users). Well, not anymore. Google has announced that starting from 15 May 2024, many AI-powered editing tools in Google Photos, including Magic Eraser, […]
In November 2023, Apple announced that it would bring Rich Communications Service (RCS) to iPhones “later next year,” suggesting that the new messaging standard would arrive in iOS with iOS 18. However, the company hasn’t offered any update on the matter since then, and as such, there was no information available on the exact timeframe […]
With the summer season just around the corner, people will soon start exploring places for their vacations, which means that the usage of Google Maps is going to shoot up. Right before that happens, Google has announced that it is adding three new features to Google Maps for Android and iOS, which will make the […]
In November 2023, WhatsApp started testing the ability in the beta version of WhatsApp for Android for people to forward or rewind a video by double-tapping on the right or the left side of the display/video. While the feature still hasn’t made it to the stable version of WhatsApp for Android, it is here on […]
Epic Games has announced that it plans to bring the Epic Games Store (EPC) to Android and iOS later this year. As the name suggests, EGS will be an application marketplace offering games. While the developer didn’t say anything about it offering Fortnite, we expect the title to take center stage of EGS. In a […]
In October 2023, Google rolled a feature to the YouTube app for Android that allowed you to search for a song by humming or singing that song or playing a clip of that song, making it easier for you to search for a song whose name you aren't aware of. Now, the company is rolling […]
Spotify has announced that it is rolling out music videos on the platform in beta. That’s right. You can now watch music videos on Spotify. Spotify is rolling out the feature to its apps for Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, and TV platforms. There’s no mention of the web in the blog post. The ability to […]
Google has announced two new upgrades for Google Drive: faster loading and buffering times for videos and new options for searching files. Let's take a look. Google Drive will now load videos faster Google is “enabling the generation and playback of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) video transcodes for all new videos uploaded to […]
In the United States, Google has been offering picture-in-picture (PIP) on YouTube for free since 2022. However, in other regions, the company still offers this feature as a part of the Premium subscription. Well, that seems to be finally changing. According to Android Police and reports on Reddit, Google has been offering picture-in-picture on YouTube […]