Periscope for iOS gets Handoff support, ability to mute notifications and more

Twitter has released a new update to its live-streaming app Periscope, which sees it get a bunch of fresh and reworked features.

The most important of these new features is the ability to mute notifications. There is no doubt that notifications can get too much, making one, every now look at their phones, and find a meaningless notification. Periscope says that this update is important to its user functionality.

“We think it’s important to respect this power, and give users granular control over the notifications they receive while still providing the flexibility of seeing more content on Periscope.” the company says in a blog post.

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The feature is only available on iOS and Periscope says it will come to Android soon.

A new mute feature has also been introduced. The feature allows users to mute people who post too often on the app.

According to the Periscope team, when you mute someone, their broadcasts still appear in your feed, but you won’t receive push notifications when they go live.

Another feature released in the update is Handoff support, which allows users to watch the same content by seamlessly switching the devices. This is only possible if the two devices are running the same operating system iOS 8+ or OS X, Bluetooth on, and logged in to the same iCloud account.

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The app is also getting a “better global feed” and users can now also change their language preference from their profile setting. Global feed allows users to discover interesting content from people around the globe. The feature is not new, Periscope says that it has been refreshed both on iOS and Android to surface high quality broadcasts. Changing language preferences will affect the global feed feature.

Another feature that has been reworked is broadcast stats. At the end of the broadcast, a panel pops up, telling users a few things about their broadcast. This information includes the total time watched. Previously this information was only visible immediately after stopping a broadcast.