Articles tagged "Apps"

Two years ago, Google introduced its solution to help you keep good digital hygiene and called it Digital Wellbeing. It's now about to get a major update with a few new features, according to an app teardown of the beta version. The most...

The Messenger Rooms feature launched by Facebook last month went live a couple of days ago, and now it's being integrated into Facebook-owned WhatsApp. According to a report by WABetaInfo, Facebook has integrated Messenger Rooms into WhatsApp for...

Play Music will shut down later this year and to make the transition to YouTube Music easier, Google has announced a new tool that lets Play Music users transfer their libraries to YouTube Music. The migrated data will include uploaded and...

Nearly two years after its initial launch, Instagram Lite is no longer supported and has vanished from the Google Play store. The app was live in 13 markets and offered the basic utility of the full Instagram app in a much smaller package of just...

Back in March, Google increased the group video call limit on Duo from eight to 12 participants at a time in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now the Internet search giant has announced that it will let Duo users make group calls on the web, starting...

Apple saw a strong 31% yearly growth in App Store revenues for April totaling $1.7 billion. This, in turn, is the strongest monthly performance for Apple’s platform since September 2017. The numbers are based on preliminary data from Sensor Tower...

The Samsung Internet browser may be based on Chromium, but it offers a few extra goodies over Chrome. Things like support for add-ons and privacy-oriented features. The upcoming version 11.2.1.3 (currently in Beta) introduces a new feature that will...

Google Drive gained a new privacy feature for its iPhone and iPad users dubbed Privacy Screen which gives an extra layer of protection with Touch ID or Face ID authentication when launching the app. You can have the new Privacy Screen feature...

Since losing its access to Google Mobile Services (GMS) nearly a year ago, Huawei has been looking for ways to expand its app portfolio through the App Gallery store. Now, it got a serious addition with Here WeGo Maps (formerly Here Maps) which is...

On Tuesday, WarnerMedia announced HBO Max, a new subscription service with over 10,000 hours of premium content. This will include both Warner Bros. and HBO content and the service promises to launch original content once the streaming service goes...

Since its inception in 2008, Apple’s App Store has grown to encompass 175 countries and regions and today the list has expanded to 20 new countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Oceania. In addition, Apple Arcade, Music, Podcasts...

Niantic, the developer studio behind Pokemon Go is bringing some new updates to its hit AR game to cope with the global COVID-19 pandemic. The latest one is remote raid battles which will let trainers battle together and capture rare Pokemon all...

Facebook recognizes that it’s important to take a break from social media not only for spending time with family or productivity, but also for mental health. Because of this, it’s added a new “Quiet Mode” timer to help curb your time on the Facebook...

According to the latest report from App Annie consumers spent significantly more time and money on apps during the Q1 period. This, of course, coincides with the global COVID-19 pandemic and reflects the increased usage rates of mobile devices...

Along with the novel coronavirus outbreak, the World Health Organization is also battling misinformation and it's doing so in a very cool way - with a WhatsApp bot. You can ask pretty much everything coronavirus-related question and it will spew up...

Huawei is determined to sell its devices outside of China even without GMS on board and it's rapidly expanding the portfolio of apps in its AppGallery store. But there are still a large number of popular apps that can't be found on Huawei's store...

Google is bringing instant live transcription to Translate for Android. The new feature is already rolling out to Android users with the latest update with support for a total of eight languages including English, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese,...

Most recently, WhatsApp finally brought a dark mode toggle to all of the users and it's now planning to introduce a feature that has been around in other messaging apps for some time now - self-destructing messages. In two beta versions of the...

Google’s G Suite which consists of Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Hangouts, Docs and other productivity-focused apps have passed the 2 billion active user threshold. The news comes from Javier Soltero, head of the G Suite division. Soltero announced...

While phones running on Android 10 have enjoyed the benefits of Dark Mode in Google Play for several months, Google has finally brought the alternative color mode to devices on lower Android versions. According to the latest Twitter post from the...