Articles tagged "Apps"

Google has released Dark Mode for many of its apps including Gmail and Play Store, and the latest to get this feature is the company's video calling app Duo. With the Dark Mode enabled, Duo's UI turns dark grey, with the text changing to light...

Last November, Instagram announced a feature called Close Friends which lets you share your Stories with select followers. Almost a year later, the company announced a new app called Threads which is designed to be used with Close...

Facebook-owned WhatsApp is testing a new feature called "disappearing messages" that will let you send messages that disappear after a set interval. This feature was spotted by WABetaInfo in version 2.19.275 of WhatsApp for Android's beta app in...

There was one point when Google and Amazon didn’t play well. From the beginning, it took years before Amazon Prime video was even available to watch on Android phones and it took even longer for Prime Video to be viewable on a Chromecast. It wasn’t...

YouTube Music was a logical successor to Google Play Music since the YouTube library is far superior to the one available to Google Play Music. And since yesterday, Google made that perfectly clear by announcing that future devices will come with...

Facebook-owned WhatsApp started testing a new feature back in June that would let users share their WhatsApp Status to Facebook Story. Well, it seems the testing has gone smooth as the company has begun rolling out this feature to its...

Back in July, Instagram started hiding the like counts from the posts because it wants your followers to "focus on the photos and videos you share, not on how many likes they get". It seems Instagram has received positive feedback, hence, its parent...

Facebook rolled out Dark Mode for its Messenger app back in March this year, and now it's about to expand that to its main app for Android. The social giant already started working on Dark Mode for Watch, but reverse engineering expert Jane Wong...

The Google app has received a new update that lets you interact with more messaging apps with voice commands. With your permission for the Google App to access notifications, Google will now read your messages to you from third-party messaging apps...

Facebook-owned Instagram has received a lot of flak in the past for disabling accounts without any prior notice. Now, the company has changed its policies and has committed to warning users before disabling their accounts. Instagram users will...

In Canada, Instagram has been testing a change to its platform that hides the number of likes on posts so only the owner can see them. Now Instagram has expanded the trial to several new countries including Ireland, Italy, Japan, Brazil,...

Almost $40 billion was spent on smartphone apps in the first half of 2019. The figure comes courtesy of Sensor Tower, which takes into account both Apple’s App Store and Google Play downloads. The figure was 15% more than the same period last year...

A two-year-long study found that 2,040 apps on Google Play Store are harmful in some way. Some require suspicious amount of permissions, while others are straight up malware, reports the University of Sydney and Data61 of CSIRO. The research...

A new report examining the revenues generated by app developers shows a great disparity between iOS and Android publishers. According to the Sensor Tower app research group, the top 100 app makers on Apple’s mobile platform earn on average 64% more...

In April, Google announced that it would comply with feedback given from the European Commission on the way that Android carries itself with Chrome and Google Search. In order to make the playing field fair for other web browsers and search engine...

As a warm up to the I/O conference, Google announced the winners of the fourth annual Google Play Awards. This year there are three new categories – Most Inventive, Best Living Room Experience and Most Beautiful Game. These went to Tick Tock: A...

Instagram introduced the Polls sticker back in October 2017 that lets you ask questions to your followers, and now, this Facebook subsidiary has announced a new sticker that allows you to quiz your followers. Instagram has introduced the Quiz...

Apple’s iOS 13 is going to bring several overhauls over previous versions with system-wide dark mode, undo gestures and special iPad features like multiple windowed apps. Today news broke out that Apple is also working on merging its Find my iPhone...

The number of Likes on your Instagram posts may soon be invisible to others as the Facebook subsidiary has created a design prototype, which hides the Like counts from your posts. This information comes to us through reverse engineering expert...

We're now mostly downloading apps that are around 5 years old, says Eric Feng - Founding CTO of Hulu. The Top 30 apps in Apple's App Store are, on average, 1,853 days old (5 years) compared to 625 days old (less than 2 years) in 2014. This means...