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Fantastical developer Flexibits updates Cardhop with smart contact groups, printing & more
Developer Flexibits today updated its contact-management Mac app Cardhop with some handy new features, such as smart groups, support for printing contacts in a variety of formats, the ability to add notes with timestamps and more.
How to export your Facebook contacts
In this post, we will show you how to export Facebook contacts, including their names and phone numbers to your computer so you can keep a backup of that data locally.
How to fix Contacts and Calendar sync problems on Apple Watch
This troubleshooting guide goes over all the effective solutions to fix the problem of your iPhone contacts and calendar events not syncing to their respective apps on your Apple Watch.
Review: SanDisk iXpand Base is an effortless way to backup your phone
Does anyone else remember back when you would get a new cell phone and you basically lost all your contacts and pictures? I don't think anyone misses that experience. While iCloud is a great option for backing up your device, it has its limitations, and it isn't for everyone. The SanDisk iXpand Base is an offline, and effortless way to backup your photos, videos, contacts to prevent you from ever ending up like 1999 again.
Simplify the Contacts app interface with TinyContactView
If you own an iPhone, then the native Contacts app is your go-to storage vault for all the contact information for friends and family. Out of the box, the app doesn’t look that bad. Nevertheless, tweak developers still come up with ways to tweak the interface ever so slightly.
One of the newest of such tweaks to hit the Cydia store is a new free jailbreak tweak called TinyContactView by iOS developer CydiaGeek. Once installed, parts of the native Contacts app UI vanish from sight.
Cardhop, the interactive Mac contacts app from Fantastical makers, is now available
Fantastical makers Flexibits have been teasing their upcoming contacts management app for macOS, a passion project years in the making, and now it's finally here—Cardhop for macOS is available starting today on Mac App Store.
WhatsApp testing chat pinning, photo albums, message revoking & other upcoming features
The popular messaging app WhatsApp is experimenting with a new pinning feature in the chat list that, when released for everyone, will permit you to stick up to three contacts to the top of the conversation list, regardless of when they last messaged you.
As first noted by AndroidPolice, it was spotted in the latest beta builds of WhatsApp for Android. Other features in an iOS beta of the app include albums, the ability to revoke a message after it's been sent, sending your real-time location to friends and family and more.
WhatsApp Albums, another upcoming feature, is in its early stages of development. Eventually, it will let you create custom albums of photos for sharing with individuals and groups.
Like other WhatsApp features, albums use end-to-end encryption.
According to WABetaInfo on Twitter, the unsend feature may be remotely enabled in the latest stable version of WhatsApp. Full support for rich notifications is being worked on, too.
Recent WhatsApp updates brought us improvements like the ability for Siri to read aloud newly received messages, text-only statuses, two-step verification for your account, sending messages offline, searching for animated GIFs from Gify and more.
You can join the WhatsApp for Android beta channel on Google's Play Store, by tapping Join Beta at the bottom of the listing. WhatsApp for iPhone betas require a jailbroken device.
How to share a group of contacts from your iPhone or iPad
In this quick tutorial, we show you how to easily share a group of contacts from your iPhone or iPad using email, iMessage, AirDrop, and other methods.
How to delete multiple contacts at once on Mac
Ever wanted to go through your Contacts app and remove all those that you no longer associate with? In this guide, we’ll show you how to delete multiple contacts at once on your Mac, which will also remove them from your iPhone and iPad.
How to turn off message notifications for unknown senders
Learn how to silence message notifications from unknown people who are not saved in your iPhone contacts list.
RecentCalls+ brings a slew of improvements to the Recents list in the Phone app
Apple improved the Phone app extensively in iOS 10 by including a new API that third-party developers can use to integrate their App Store apps with calling functionality into it, such as those like Skype or WhatsApp, just to name a couple.
On the other hand, there's still more that can be done to improve the Phone app, and a new jailbreak tweak release by Olxios&Nico called RecentCalls+ is a step in the right direction.