Category: APPS

The new look appears to bring the iPhone app in line with the Android redesign that rolled out on May 5th. “Previously, it was complicated to get to the four main things people do on mobile,” Slack …
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It’s not the most annoying bug on Apple devices, because it doesn’t actually stop you doing anything. Yet, sometimes one, two or almost all of the apps on your Apple TV turn grey and can’t be selected …
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Microsoft will soon introduce mouse and trackpad support to Office for Apple’s iPad tablet, as the apps will look to take advantage of the device’s new cursor.
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When it comes to viewing, editing, signing, and sharing documents, PDFs are likely involved. They’re super simple to send and receive through email, unfortunately doing anything more, e.g., signing …
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WhatsApp, though, is by far the world’s largest messaging app, totaling 300 million daily users worldwide. WhatsApp added around 1.5 million people to its sphere after being acquired by Facebook in …
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The UK was one of the few countries to initially reject Apple and Google’s API, but it looks like that could change.
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Apple and Google want to process the notifications on users’ phones without storing them on a central server, to preserve the maximum degree of privacy possible. Some European countries, meanwhile, …
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If you want to restart a game on your iPhone, deleting and redownloading it can do the trick, unless you’ve saved the game to iCloud.
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It now features the AFI Movie Club collection, which is composed of iconic movies the American Film Institute selects each day to “creat[e] a communal viewing experience” during quarantine.
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Apple will celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 21 by highlighting its work to improve accessibility across its hardware, software and customer support.
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MPs and rights groups have warned lack of data protection could make UK app illegal …
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The UK previously said it would not use the specially-released Apple-Google API as it would mean promising to keep user data decentralized.
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A Utah-based startup says it has exclusive business rights to the use of smartphones and other electronic devices for tracing people who have come into contact with a person with Covid-19, setting up …
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In recognition of May’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day, the company will be highlighting its tech to help people with disabilities.
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To help fight the spread of misinformation, a new WhatsApp bot has been released by the Facebook-owned chat app and Poynter International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) that can actually debunk myths …
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A number of popular third-party apps for Apple Inc.’s iPhone were knocked out of service for some people for about an hour on Wednesday afternoon. Software developers on Twitter cited a bug in …
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Multiple iPhone and iPad users are seeing their apps crashing at launch as of this afternoon, and the issue appears to be caused by a faulty …
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