Instagram today unveiled a new poll-like Emoji Slider feature for your Stories.
Instagram’s new Emoji Slider lets you pick how much you like or dislike something
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YouTube rolling out support for high dynamic range video content on iPhone X
iPhone X is the first iPhone using a high dynamic range (HDR) screen with up to a billion colors, and now YouTube's begun rolling out support for HDR video on the OLED device.
New Steam apps will let you stream games and movies to your iPhone, iPad & Apple TV
How cool would it be if you could play your Steam library of games on your iPhone, iPad or Apple TV? Thanks to the upcoming Steam Link and Steam Video apps, local streaming of your Steam entertainment library is coming soon to iOS and tvOS.
3 ways YouTube encourages you to take a break
Google has implemented a trio of new tools in the mobile YouTube app that were designed to help customers get reminded when it's time to take a break and stop bing-watching.
Another Unicode text bomb hits Messages app
Unicode bugs are what Lock screen exploits used to be in the past—no matter what Apple does, there's seemingly always a new text handling issue lurking around the corner.
GDPR is coming soon so Apple starts clamping down on apps that sell your location data
Stepping up its policy of removing iPhone and iPad software from App Store that violates its strict guidelines, Apple is now cracking down on apps that collect and share your location data with third-parties without explicit consent.
This tweak puts a live battery indicator in Control Center’s Low Power Mode toggle
Cowbell is a new free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer LaughingQuoll that displays your device’s current battery level in the Low Power Mode toggle button located inside of Control Center in iOS 11.
Shown above, you can see how the text string indicating your current battery level percentage appears just below the glyph shown on the toggle button.
Houdini ‘semi-jailbreak’ tool demoed on iOS 11.4 beta
If you’re up to speed on everything happening in the jailbreak community as of late, then you might be familiar with the Houdini semi-jailbreak created by Abraham Masri (@cheesecakeufo) many months ago.
While it isn’t a full-fledged jailbreak like Electra and Yalu are, it does provide users with a basic way of customizing their device(s) outside of Apple’s stock parameters, and Masri has just demonstrated a successful Houdini semi-jailbreak on Apple’s latest iOS 11.4 beta:
CoolStar displays interest in an iOS 11.2.x-centric kernel exploit
A spark of good news seems to be circulating in the jailbreak community this week after an iOS 11.2.x-based kernel exploit became publicized.
And if that news wasn’t good enough in and of itself, a Tweet shared by renowned iOS developer and Electra jailbreak tool creator CoolStar underscores interest in toying around with it:
Google News is rolling out overhauled, artificially intelligent iPhone app with subscriptions & more
Google I/I, the search giant's annual developers conference, is currently underway and the search giant just announced a whole new Google News app for iPhone and iPad that takes advantage of artificial intelligence and machine learning to bring you the stories you're most likely to care about.
iOS 11.4’s Restricted Mode may defeat physical data access by hacking tools like GrayKey
iOS 11.4 packs in a new feature called USB Restricted Mode that was designed to help defeat physical data access by forensic firms like Cellebrite and hacking tools such as GrayKey.
Remote Control app turns an iOS device into a remote control for your Mac [sponsored]
Would you like to turn your iPhone or iPad into the ultimate remote control for your Mac?