Mobile

If you use Google Photos on a phone from Xiaomi, Oppo, and most notably from Samsung, your screenshots are probably mixed into all of your pictures. This is because of how Samsung and others store screenshots on your device, but apparently, Android 12 will force them to do it the correct way. Documentation viewed by XDA claims that, in Android 12, Google will force all Android OEMs to store…

Following the release of iOS 14.5 with App Tracking Transparency, Apple today released a new video advertisement promoting privacy on the iPhone. The humorous ad aims to visualize what it means when you allow an app to track you across other apps and services. Regarding the new “Tracked” advertisement, Apple says: App Tracking Transparency lets you control which apps are allowed to track…

Snapchat announced today, during its annual partnership summit, a new iOS video editing app called Story Studio. It’ll give users an editing tool specifically designed for mobile with vertical videos. It also unveiled the next-generation Spectacles with AR support. Story Studio will have all the features people are already used to seeing on Snapchat such as AR Lenses. The video editor will…

Google TV launched last year on the new Chromecast, and it’s now being integrated into more televisions. As those sets launch, a dedicated Google TV Community Forum is now available for user questions and support.  Google Help today has forums for Android TV and Chromecast. It’s a place where users can pose questions and get responses from others in the community, “Product Experts,” and…