Articles tagged "iOS"

For the past few months or so, Facebook has been on a mission. A mission to ape every unique functionality inside Snapchat, in a wholesale manner, and bring it to its own services. Instagram has benefitted the most from this strategy, by far. In...

Spotify currently doesn’t have an official companion app for the Apple Watch, but that’s about to soon enough. Third-party app developer Andrew Chang had created an unofficial Spotify app called “Spotty” for Apple Watch users that also supported...

Clips Clips is a new app from Apple for creating, editing, and sharing videos. The app lets you record a video or photo or import them from your gallery. You can adjust the length of your clips or rearrange them within a simple UI. The...

Apple's AirPods are in a constant state of unavailability, with the 'Ships: 6 weeks' a permanent fixture on their product page. Apple's got plans for a follow-up though, and if a patent filing is any indication, the future AirPods will be a tad...

Facebook-owned WhatsApp is finally throwing its hat in the online payment system, starting first with India, its biggest market in the world. The company is said to be working on a system based on India’s UPI or Unified Payments Interface to...

Google has launched the Google Play Music ‘All Access’ service in India. Although the ability to purchase music was launched in September last year, the All Access streaming service was not available until now. Being late to the market...

Pebble was one of the first products of its kind. It was born from KickStarter and put the modern smartwatch on the map before larger companies swooped in and made it their own. It’s simplistic interface and vast library of third-party applications...

Apple announced that it is starting a new app development center in Bengaluru, India called App Accelerator Bengaluru. The aim of this is to enable budding developers to create more apps for Apple’s platforms. In this program, Apple experts will...

Twitter's 140 character rule still exists, but the company has been taking some steps to mitigate it somewhat recently. The newest such move comes today, when it's announced that usernames aren't counted towards that 140 character tweet limit...

iFixit has performed its ritualistic teardown of the latest iPad from Apple that was announced last week. This gives us a closer look at everything that’s inside. The primary difference is the chipset, which is the same Apple A9 that is...

Telegram has introduced voice calling feature in its popular messaging application. The feature is now live in the latest update released on iOS and Android, but is only available in Western Europe. The company has promised that it will soon be...

Google has finally launched its Calendar application on iPad. In terms of features, the app is broadly the same - it's just that it has been optimized for use on Apple iPads. "With the new app, you’ll get all the Calendar features you know...

So far, Facebook has aped Snapchat's Stories in Instagram, WhatsApp, and even Messenger. So it makes sense that the main Facebook app for mobile platforms wouldn't be able to escape the Stories invasion either. And in fact it hasn't. Today the...

Truecaller has announced version 8.0 of its caller ID service and it is the biggest one yet. The company outlined the new features that will be coming with this update, some immediately and others at a later date. The first one is the...

Facebook is usually quick to copy features from its various competitors if it deems them interesting enough, but we normally see stuff from the likes of Snapchat making it into the social network's offerings. This time Facebook Messenger has decided...

Microsoft has started pushing out a new update to its OneDrive's iOS client, bumping the app to version 8.12. The update brings along a couple of changes, including improved conditional access support. The new version also addresses a Wi-Fi...

Google is announcing several changes to its suite of messaging platforms. Hopefully by the end of this post, you’ll have a better understanding of what Google is actually trying to do. TL;DR available at the end of this post. If you remember,...

Facebook's Messenger is continuing its quest to add as many features as possible. The latest additions are reactions (which was in testing for a while) and mentions. Both of these will be rolling out across the world "in the coming days". You'll...

Google Allo still exists. Furthermore, it's still not been forgotten by the search giant, and keeps on getting updates once in a while. Today is one such occasion, and this time the news isn't new stickers - just kidding, there's some news about...

Here's some good news for fans of the long-dead Google service called Latitude. Google Maps is soon getting real-time location sharing abilities. This new feature will be rolling out worldwide to all of its users on Android and iOS. When you get...