Like it does every holiday season, Apple on Tuesday announced the holiday downtime schedule for its App Stores, which is the same as last year: December 23-27. During that window, the Cupertino tech giant won't be accepting any new app or app update submissions.
With iOS 12's Shortcuts app, power users can easily automate repetitive tasks by chaining multiple actions together. Your shortcuts are managed and organized in the Shortcuts app, but displaying them to the user as a list via another shortcut is quite challenging. This is where Easy Folder comes into play. This awesome shortcut, create by Reddit user “e10withadot,” acts as a virtual folder to which you can add any number of shortcuts, then easily pick one to execute via a popup menu at run time.
The Internet giant Google yesterday refreshed its Assistant app for iPhone and iPad with support for Apple's new Siri Shortcuts feature which made its debut in iOS 12.
Created by the app maker Rational Design, Minimal Cal is a new calendar app for iPhone which declutters the experience of managing your events and settings by incorporating great typography, minimal design and easy navigation. Can you calendar app do that?
Some cool new features are coming to Google Photos for iOS, including Portrait mode bokeh editing and changing the focal point of the blur, as well as leaving the subject of your photograph in color whilst changing the background to black and white.
At long last, the photo-sharing service Instagram has announced that its algorithm will be deleting inauthentic likes and follows that those fitness trainers and life coaches you've been following have bought from specialized services.
While Facebook-owned Instagram back in August did confirm that it had been hard at work developing a brand-new activity dashboard feature that would show how much time you spent on the service, the promised rollout got delayed. Today, Instagram has finally started rolling out its own Screen Time-like feature, dubbed Your Activity.
The biggest tech collaboration of the year is here with nearly 30 of your favorite YouTubers having come together on a group FaceTime Video call. Their video shows off just how smooth the feature is with very little lag. On the other hand, while the execution did impress us a lot, we felt that Apple's implementation of the group-calling interface left a lot to be desired.
Cortana, Microsoft's own personal digital assistant, has been overhauled on iPhone and iPad this morning with a sleek new design that includes a brand-new conversational experience for answers alongside new features such as support for podcasts and music-streaming services like Spotify, iHeartRadio and TuneIn.
Viber, WhatsApp and Instagram allow you to remove an erroneous message for both the sender and the recipient(s) and now Facebook is working on a similar feature for Messenger.
There's no shortage of inexpensive earphones, but Brinwavz's Zeta in-ear monitors (IEM) offer great sound and nice comfort for just twenty bucks a pop.
Apple's major iOS 12 update is now powering 63 percent of active iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices just a month and a half following its release on September 17, 2018 (44 days ago).