I can't stand the sight of twisted charging cables sitting in my drawer. Having to carry them around as part of my mobile device toolkit every time I leave home is annoying, to say the least. As if the dongles weren't enough, now we're expected to carry more cables than ever before just because vendors cannot settle on a universally accepted charging standard.
Apple yesterday released a sixth beta of iOS 12 to its registered developers and public beta testers, coming out about a week after beta 5 released. While people should not expect any major new whiz-bang features to be added to the iOS 12 code that late in the game, we've managed to find nearly half a dozen changes in beta 6 that we think you should know about.
After celebrating Fortnite's first birthday last month, this living, action building game for iPhone, iPad, consoles and Windows PCs is allegedly expanding to Android later today.
Apollo, a gorgeous Reddit client built for power and speed by former Apple intern Christian Selig, is the only Reddit app you need. And with Apollo's optional dark theme available in two flavors, the usually darkened interface and a power-saving pure black mode.
Instagram brought the Stories capability to its platform in August 2016. An ephemeral feature that revolves around auto-vanishing photos and videos, it proved a smash hit with users.
Fast forward to today and Instagram is now the leading choice for most teens.
As promised, Facebook is bringing Screen Time-like tools to its mobile app and Instagram.
Apple has four million people on betas of its operating systems.
Facebook-owned WhatsApp yesterday brought group calling to its users.
Obscura 2, the award-winning iPhone camera app by developer Ben McCarthy, is currently available at no charge for a limited time through Apple's official Apple Store app, a $5 value.
Search ads on App Store are now available to developers in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan and South Korea, according to a post this past weekend on Apple's portal for developers.
Many people are oblivious to the fact that Apple's App Store once used to actually display the download count for all apps and games. Unfortunately, this undeniably cool feature (at least as far as end-users are concerned) had to be removed because the developers objected.
Apple Japan announced (Google Translate) Friday that it's going to offer free repairs of customers' devices directly damaged by the record rainfall that hit southwestern Japan earlier this month and caused hundreds of deaths, flooding, landslides and collapsed infrastructure.