One of the hallmarks of the upcoming Material You design language, featured in Android 12, is apps theming themselves based on your current wallpaper. Signs have begun to point toward Chrome for Android preparing to support Material You color theming.
Update: A new flag confirms the Material You coloring will indeed be coming soon to Chrome on Pixel phones.
Material You is set to freshen up…
Apps can request access to more RAM with iOS 15 entitlement, exceeding normal system memory limits
June 25, 2021
A newly documented entitlement will allow app developers to request privileged access to RAM on iOS and iPadOS. This system entitlement has existed in prior iOS versions as a private escape hatch, used by some internal processes.
The change from private to public means that…
Apple Arcade launched with close to 100 titles and the service is seeing new games added regularly with over 180 games now in the library. Follow along with our guide on the latest from Apple’s gaming service.
New: The iOS hits Leo’s Fortune and INKS have arrived on…
iPhone has become an incredibly powerful device over the last fourteen years and the early days of the smartphone’s experience can feel like ancient history. Now a new speed test looks to quantify how much faster the iPhone 12 is compared to the original iPhone.
While an iPhone 12 vs original iPhone speed test might sound silly, Apple actually uses comparisons to its first-gen devices…
Over the past few weeks, Google has introduced standalone preference pages for various Assistant features. The latest sees Google Assistant settings for the Android “Lock screen.”
The new “Lock screen” menu is grouped under “Popular Settings,” like Voice Match…
Report: Galaxy S21 FE launch postponed until October
June 25, 2021
A new report out of Korea suggests that the upcoming launch of the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE launch has been postponed and may even see a limited global release.
The report comes from Korean outlet Fnnews and suggests that chipset shortages are behind this proposed Galaxy S21…
The latest WhatsApp beta builds for Android have added a couple of minor new features to the cross-platform messaging application including voice note waveforms and the ability to forward in-app sticker packs.
We’ll agree that neither new addition is particularly groundbreaking, nor is WhatsApp the first to add such features. However, it’s still worth mentioning that the Facebook-owned app…
Google has trained Search to “detect when a topic is rapidly evolving” and will now display a “changing quickly” notice when a “range of sources hasn’t yet weighed in.” It comes as information around breaking or emerging news “may not be the most…
Google Home app getting ‘updated Wi-Fi device view’ and last features from old Wifi app
June 25, 2021
In addition to a new Nest/Google Wifi update, the Google Home app is getting the last few remaining Wifi-related features from the old client that’s set to be deprecated.
Google Home 2.39 is widely rolling out today on Android and iOS with a trio of features from the…
For the past few years, Google’s MVNO has long offered a built-in virtual private network as part of its monthly subscription. The Google Fi VPN is now rolling out to iPhone users.
Google announced this expansion to iOS back in February when the Fi VPN exited beta for Android users. It was first introduced in November of 2018 alongside an “enhanced network” option that enables the…
