iOS 14's built-in web content blocker has been found to prevent searches that include the word “Asian,” including such phrases as “Asian food” and “Asian countries”. As a matter of fact, Safari has been found to block all websites that contain the word “asian” in the URL.
Sometime this spring, Apple is going to (finally) roll out one of the biggest additions to iOS 14: App Tracking Transparency. It's been a long time coming, and it's ruffled some feathers. But now it sounds like Google may be eyeballing a similar feature for Android.
YouTube is all over the places, with apps readily available across platforms and devices. But, very shortly, it's losing support for one device.
Apple has released a new Windows app for accessing saved web and app passwords in Safari through Google's Chrome browser. Now folks who use macOS and Windows interchangeably can finally use their passwords to log in to websites.
Google has recently pushed several updates to some of its iOS apps on the App Store that now include mandatory information for Apple’s new App Privacy label feature.
Google and its ad industry partners are not liking Apple's upcoming tracking prompt in iOS 14. The company's been dragging its feet with adding data privacy disclosures to its iPhone and iPad apps on the App Store. And now, Google says it will stop using a device’s unique IDFA (Identifier For Advertisers) to avoid showing the new privacy permission prompt in iOS 14.
At the start of 2020, we chastised Google for failing to update the vast majority of its iPhone and iPad apps on the App Store with the new privacy labels that became mandatory in mid-December. And even though Google keeps insisting that it's not really attempting to take a stand against the new privacy feature from Apple, its recent actions suggest otherwise.
Google Maps has begun rolling out more accurate data and way more detailed street-level information in a handful of cities around the world. The areas where more detailed geographical features are available: Central London, Tokyo, San Francisco, and New York.
What started as a dispute in the United States has found its way over to the United Kingdom, as Epic Games continues to duke it out with both Apple and Google.
Google to this date hasn't updated any of its iPhone or iPad apps with the new App Store privacy “nutrition labels” since the new App Privacy feature section has gone live last month.
Companies offering cloud game streaming services have found a workaround for Apple's App Store rules regarding game streaming, and that's Safari. Google is making its own effort, Stadia, available through the web browser beginning today.
The Apple TV app is important to Apple because it not only grants access to content purchased with iTunes, but also expands availability of its streaming service, Apple TV+. So the app being available on as many devices as possible is good for the company.