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Apple brings back battery indicator to status bar in iOS 16 beta 5

Apple has brought back the battery percentage indicator in iOS 16 beta 5, but it needs you to enable it. The battery indicator makes…

Twitter Spaces hosting rolls out to everyone: How to host one

Twitter has rolled the ability to host Spaces out to all its app users, no longer requiring a minimum follower count of 600 followers….

Roland launches Zentracker, a free audio recording app for musicians

Instrument manufacturer Roland has launched Zentracker, a mobile app that lets users record multitrack audio and apply sound effects. The app is now available…

Telegram update adds chat themes, video chat recording and more

Telegram has introduced several new features as part of its latest update, including chat themes and live stream and video chat recording. The update…

Twitter is testing moderated, topic-centered Communities

Twitter has announced it is testing a new Communities platform that lets users post their tweets in groups and gather based on shared interests…

WhatsApp rolls out iOS to Android chat transfer

WhatsApp has begun to roll out the option for users to transfer their chat history from iOS devices to Android using an adapter cable….

Twitter launches subscriber-only Super Follows in the US

Twitter has officially launched Super Follows, a paid subscription feature that lets app users monetise their tweets and post exclusive content. The feature is…

Clubhouse denies app was hacked as scraped data of 1.3m accounts appears online

Social audio app Clubhouse denies it was hacked and personal data from 1.3 million of its users was stolen. The company was responding to…

Apple leans into TikTok format with new Clips video editor update

Apple has its eyes firmly set on the short-form video market as it rolled out “its biggest update” for its video creation app, Clips,…

Dark Sky ditches Android users, weather apps after it joins Apple

In a bid to bolster its own weather app offering, Apple has acquired Dark Sky, but that has left a number of Android users…

Now you can use Google shortcuts on Siri to search and send emails

Google has revealed new shortcuts now available on iOS that will help improve the speed of access to the company’s apps via Siri. “With…

Twitter conversation threads on iOS gets a brand new look this week

Twitter this week revealed a new update for iOS that will display replies to tweets more coherently on the platform. With the update, Apple…

3 excellent weather apps for Android and iOS

Keeping track of the weather (especially in Cape Town) isn’t the easiest of tasks. In a city where all four seasons can gust through…

Google Maps Incognito Mode is now available on iOS

Google on Monday revealed new Location History updates on Google Maps, bringing Incognito Mode to the iOS version of the app. “While in Incognito…

Facebook’s experimental ‘Whale’ app lets you create forced memes

Facebook’s really fishing for the next big thing, and it hopes that its new meme-creation app called Whale is the catch it’s looking for….

You can now search through your Twitter DMs on iOS

Twitter users on iOS now have the luxury of searching through their DMs to find conversations faster with the platform’s new “DM search” feature….

WhatsApp now supports Apple’s Memojis after iOS beta update

WhatsApp has added support for Memoji stickers on iOS in its latest beta update, a report on WABetaInfo has revealed. The feature will allow…

Netflix debuts Collections: lists curated by its humans for us humans

Netflix is finally giving its machines a rest, letting actual humans decide what we should be watching. A new feature dubbed Collections, spotted by…

59 new emoji are coming to iOS, MacOS and Apple Watch

Apple on Tuesday revealed 59 new emoji coming to iOS, MacOS and the Apple Watch in celebration of World Emoji Day. The new emoji…

Google expands Android security key feature to iOS

Google on Wednesday announced that it has expanded its Android security key two-factor authentication feature to iOS as well. This means Android users can…

13 things you should know about Apple’s iOS 13

Apple on Monday announced a slew of software updates and new products, including iPadOS. But while the iPad gets its own operating system as…

You can’t save contacts’ profile pics on WhatsApp’s latest iOS beta

If you’re using WhatsApp on an Apple device there are a few interesting if not flat-out inconvenient changes coming to the app. As spotted…

Google Fit debuts on iOS, supports the Apple Watch too

Google on Thursday announced that its health tracking app, Google Fit, will now be available on iOS devices. Google Fit tracks users physical activities…

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