Topic: app updates
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Google Home App Update: Faster Controls & Immersive UI
The Google Home app update introduces faster controls for devices and an edge-to-edge design on Android, with Matter-enabled devices now working reliably offline and doubling response times. Enhanced automations allow for deeper customization using advanced conditions and triggers, while AI-gener...
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Samsung Should Shut Down the Galaxy Store
The Galaxy Store has declined from a hub for exclusive content to a source of frustration, plagued by intrusive ads that reappear daily and cannot be permanently dismissed. Its core functionality is unreliable, with faulty automatic updates and redundant notifications for apps from the Google Pla...
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Uber Simplifies Airport Rides and Gifted Trips
Uber introduces "Send a Ride" for gifting prepaid trips to others, allowing you to set ride limits and share a link for redemption. Uber Share expands to major airports like JFK and Orlando, offering discounted shared rides to ease travel during operational challenges. New features include Uber S...
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Blackmagic's Free Camera App Now Streams Directly to YouTube & Twitch
Blackmagic's free camera app now supports direct live streaming to YouTube, Twitch, and Vimeo, removing the need for third-party apps or extra hardware, and allows users to broadcast from Android or iOS devices with full professional controls during streams. The update introduces SRT protocol sup...
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Google Photos Video Editor Rivals Capcut
Google Photos has launched a major video editor overhaul, featuring a redesigned interface, themed highlight reel templates, and new options for adding custom text and music, bringing it closer to standalone editing apps. A key enhancement is the new highlight reel system with stylized templates ...
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Google's Gemini-Powered Smart Home Upgrade Arrives
Google has launched a major smart home upgrade integrating its Gemini AI into the Home app, transforming user interaction with automated environments through advanced features and a redesigned interface. The update enhances app performance with faster camera loading and fewer crashes, while offer...
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Turn Your Camera Roll Into a Meme Factory with Google Photos
Google Photos has launched a new 'Me meme' generator, an AI-powered feature that automatically creates memes from users' personal photos. The tool is found in the app's Create tab, allowing users to select templates and photos for the AI to generate personalized, shareable content. This addition ...
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Google Photos Revives Face Search for People & Pets
Google Photos has reintroduced visual "face shortcuts," allowing users to quickly find photos of frequent people and pets with a single tap, addressing user feedback for a simpler search method. The shortcuts appear in both the classic search tab and the newer "Ask Photos" interface, providing im...
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Freedom Chat App Exposed Users' Phone Numbers and PINs
Freedom Chat, a privacy-focused messaging app, fixed two major vulnerabilities that allowed attackers to identify registered users' phone numbers and exposed their app-lock PINs to other users in public channels. Security researcher Eric Daigle discovered the flaws, which included weak server pro...
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Google Maps Gets Smarter with Gemini AI for Easier Navigation
Google Maps is integrating Gemini AI to transform from a basic navigation tool into an intelligent, conversational travel assistant, enhancing user interaction. The update introduces more natural voice commands, multi-step requests, and real-time incident reporting, while also using landmarks for...
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Google Photos and Maps Get a Fresh Look with New Icons
Google is redesigning app icons for Google Photos and Maps with gradient color schemes as part of a broader visual refresh and AI-first strategy. The new icons feature softer gradients and retain familiar shapes while symbolizing Google's evolution in the AI era and deeper integration of AI funct...
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Google Maps Tests Controversial New Navigation Features
Google Maps is testing a new feature that moves stop suggestions from the main map to a swipeable bottom card during active navigation. The redesigned interface includes detailed stop listings with detour times, filters for convenience, and a dedicated Call button for each location. Similar updat...
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Discover the New Features in iOS 26.1 to 26.4
iOS 26.1 beta introduces expanded language support for Apple Intelligence and Live Translation on AirPods, along with minor refinements in core apps like Apple Music and Safari. Apple is adding a digital U.S. passport to the Wallet app for TSA checkpoints and age verification, emphasizing securit...
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The Next Chapter for iPhone: iOS 19
iOS 19 is set to be the biggest overhaul since iOS 7, with a rumored "liquid glass" aesthetic inspired by visionOS. The update will also introduce a smarter, more context-aware Siri and a new RCS feature for the Messages app. This evolution will fundamentally change the iPhone experience for both users and developers.
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Apple Sports iOS Widget Fails to Work With CarPlay
The iOS 26 update introduced a new CarPlay widgets panel, but the Apple Sports app's widget is incompatible, disappointing users who wanted live scores integrated directly into their vehicle's display. While the Apple Sports widget supports Live Activities for real-time updates on the lock screen...
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Apple TV Gains Google Cast, But Only for Android
The Apple TV app on Android now supports Google Cast, allowing users to stream content wirelessly from their devices to compatible TVs and streaming hardware. This update is exclusive to Android, as the iOS app still uses AirPlay, highlighting the platform-specific nature of these streaming proto...
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Google Phone Beta Adds Urgent Calls That Override DND
Google's Phone app beta introduces "Expressive Calling," a feature that allows users to mark a call as urgent, overriding a recipient's Do Not Disturb settings to ensure notification. The urgent call functionality requires both parties to use the beta app (version 203), displaying a clear "It's u...
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Nintendo Switch Online Adds 4 Classic Games and Hidden Easter Egg
Nintendo Switch Online subscribers now have access to four new classic games, including Ninja Gaiden 2 and Battletoads on the NES app, and Kid Icarus and Bionic Commando on the Game Boy app. The Game Boy app has been updated to Version 3.0.0, adding a nostalgic Easter egg that displays the classi...
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Unlock Your 2025 Discord Recap & Stats
Discord has launched its first year-in-review feature called **Discord Checkpoint**, providing users with a personalized summary of their 2025 activity and community engagement. The feature is rolling out gradually; users can access it via a desktop icon or mobile profile banner, provided their a...
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Netflix Ends Mobile Casting Feature
Netflix has removed the mobile-to-TV casting feature for most devices, requiring users to launch the app directly on their TV instead. The change primarily affects users on cheaper, ad-supported plans, while premium subscribers can still cast to older Chromecast or Google Cast-enabled TVs. Netfli...
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Google Photos May Finally Get This Video Feature
Google Photos is testing a video playback speed control feature, allowing users to watch clips at various speeds from 0.25x to 2x. The app is also developing a toggle to hide date labels in the main photo grid, creating a seamless, less cluttered visual layout. These features, discovered in an ap...
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Pixel Watch Gets Wear OS 6.1 in Major December Update
Google is rolling out Wear OS 6.1, based on Android 16, to the Pixel Watch 2, 3, and 4, but not the original Pixel Watch, as part of its quarterly update cycle. The update enables new features like always-on media controls and default gesture controls (Double Pinch and Wrist Turn), while also int...
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Google Pixel Watch Gains Always-On Media, Timer & Stopwatch
The update introduces a more functional always-on display for the Pixel Watch, specifically enhancing the Timer and Stopwatch apps with streamlined, persistent interfaces to conserve battery. It expands always-on functionality to include media playback controls, which adopt a similar outlined des...
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Google Gemini Now Integrates with Chrome on iPhone and iPad
Google has integrated its Gemini AI assistant directly into the Chrome browser for iPhone and iPad, replacing the Google Lens icon in the address bar for easy access. The feature allows users to ask questions about the current webpage or get article summaries via a sidebar, offering quick, in-con...
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Wear OS 6 Arrives on Pixel Watch 2 and 3
Google has released Wear OS 6 for the Pixel Watch 2 and 3, based on Android 16, but the original Pixel Watch is not included in this update despite support commitments until 2025. The update introduces the Material 3 Expressive visual overhaul, featuring Dynamic Color theming and redesigned core ...
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Samsung's Bixby Reboot Leaks Early, Features Perplexity AI
Samsung is partnering with Perplexity AI to overhaul its Bixby assistant, aiming to offload complex queries to Perplexity's model while maintaining its collaboration with Google. An early, unreleased version of the Perplexity-powered Bixby was accidentally activated, showcasing a major upgrade wi...
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Windows 10 Support Ends Today: The First of Many Phases
Microsoft has ended support for Windows 10, ceasing critical security updates and technical assistance, which increases vulnerability to threats over time. Due to Windows 11's strict hardware requirements, about 40% of global Windows devices remain on the unsupported OS, unable to upgrade. Home u...
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