Articles tagged "Mobile software"

Great news! WhatsApp is finally adding support for HD videos! No need to double check the date on this article, you haven't accidentally been time-machined back to 2005. It's still 2023, and one of the world's leading messaging services is only now...

One of the main downsides of sending photos through WhatsApp is the processing that goes on, lowering their size, resolution, and quality significantly (and very visibly). This, however, is finally going to be a thing of the past. At least the...

Music streaming services are everywhere these days, and did you know that Google has one too? It's called YouTube Music and starting today it wants to help you discover new music in a very addictive fashion. So it's adding a new tab called Samples,...

WhatsApp's quest to add as many features as possible shows no signs of stopping. Case in point, a new one. Today Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the Meta-owned messaging service now supports screen sharing in video calls. The feature is...

There are 26 letters in the English alphabet, but Elon Musk cares about only one – X. That’s the new name of Twitter, but the change ran into an unexpected problem. Apple’s App Store platform has an unwritten rule that app names should be at least...

Voice messages have been a staple feature of WhatsApp for years now. And so have voice calls. But also video calls. Spot what's missing in this series? Indeed, video messages. Well, they were missing, up until today that is. WhatsApp finally...

OpenAI launched the standalone ChatGPT app for iOS in May and promised to bring it to Android soon. Well, two months later, OpenAI has announced it will release the ChatGPT app for Android next week. Those interested in giving ChatGPT's Android...

WhatsApp is now officially available for Wear OS smartwatches. Previously, a beta version had been out for a few months, but this is no beta - it's a stable, finalized build. In order to install and use it, you need to have a Wear OS 3...

The Truecaller Assistant that was announced last September and was available in a few countries, including the US and Australia, has finally launched in India. The Truecaller Assistant is an AI-based call-screening solution that uses cloud...

The Samsung Galaxy Enhance-X AI-based image editing app released last July was initially available for the Galaxy S22 series but was later released for the Galaxy Note, Galaxy S, and Galaxy Z lineup. Samsung has announced that Galaxy Enhance-X is...

Stories. They're everywhere. The feature pioneered by Snapchat in 2013, and embraced to a rather ridiculous extent by Meta and baked into everything from Facebook to Facebook Messenger to Instagram (most successfully, by far) to WhatsApp,...

If you are not in the know, the popular PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS (PUBG) franchise has been having plenty of problems with the government in India. The original version of the game was banned and taken down from both the Google Play Store and...

WhatsApp is working hard on adding new features, especially ones that some of its competitors have had for a long time. Today, it's time for editing. WhatsApp now supports editing sent messages. All you need to do is long-press the one you want...

Android 14 beta is already available for some smartphones and Google recently pushed the second beta update, so people had time to play around with Google's upcoming OS and explore some new features. And it appears that the search giant is planning...

Today Apple announced that it's officially brining its video and music creation tools to iPads. Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro will both become available on May 23, the former on iPads with the M1 or M2 chipset, the latter on devices powered by the A12...

The GIF format is older than many people on the Internet (it was first released in June 1987), but it is as popular as ever as it is the format of choice for sharing animated memes on social media. Except that doesn’t quite work on WhatsApp, which...

Following the introduction of the long-requested ability to use the same account seamlessly across one phone and multiple other devices in 2021, today WhatsApp is back with the logical conclusion of that effort. The service is now offering what has...

The venerable Google Authenticator app is finally getting the one feature people have been asking for years: cloud backup. In the latest version rolling out to Android and iOS, Google has finally added this feature that makes it both more secure and...

Today WhatsApp has officially unveiled its latest feature, and it's a twist on the Disappearing Messages functionality which was first introduced in 2020. It's called Keep in Chat, and basically allows you to hang onto texts you need for later, even...

Real-time lyrics are nothing new in the music streaming realm. Both Spotify and Apple Music have had the feature for some time now. YouTube Music has been lacking behind. Lyrics have been available on the Google streaming platform, but only in a...