Along with a host of new accessibility features announced today, iOS is set to gain a new Background Sounds feature to help reduce distractions and promote focus, calm, and rest.
Backgrounds Sounds will arrive sometime “later this year” with six options: balanced, bright, or dark noise, ocean, rain, and stream. It’s one of many new accessibility features on the way including AssistiveTouch…
Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, has now taken the stand and is testifying in the company’s ongoing legal battle with Epic. Apple has said that Federighi’s testimony will focus heavily on security, highlighting the lengths to…
Earlier today, Apple unveiled a host of new accessibility features coming to iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS later this year. In the screenshots shown off in Apple’s press release, we can see what appears to be the Settings app with inset cells and a navigation bar that’s…
A report by the Post-IDFA Alliance shows that two weeks after the release of iOS 14.5, advertisers have started spending more on the Android platform. This alliance combines data provided by Liftoff, AdColony, Fyber, Singular, and Vungle. This is the first report about the impact of App Tracking Transparency policies introduced with iOS 14.5 in April.
According to the report, which collected…
Surprisingly, Apple has just released the first iOS 14.7 beta to developers even before iOS 14.6 became available to the public. Apple has also released watchOS 7.6 beta and tvOS 14.7 beta. We don’t yet know what’s new in today’s updates.
The iOS 14.6 RC was released…
Apple today introduced the first beta of iOS 14.7 to developers, and while this update doesn’t seem to bring any significant changes, it does bring a new feature for HomePod users. With this new version of iOS, users will be able to set timers on the HomePod using the Home…
If you’ve ever used an iPhone, you’re probably familiar with how iOS adds homescreen icons for apps before they’ve been fully installed, unlike Android, which adds the icon after installation is complete. Now, though, Google appears to be testing a copy of Apple’s feature.
A Twitter user (via XDA) spotted this new functionality while installing apps on the Android 12 Beta. It’s unclear…
Hisense is ‘happy’ with standard Android TV; 2021 models won’t get Google TV anytime soon
May 20, 2021
Android TV has seen hefty growth over the past few years, recently with a big boost in the United States. Helping to lead that charge is Android TV built into smart TVs. As Google TV takes over, we’re still waiting to find out who will and won’t adopt it. As far as…
Just last week, Project Connected Home over IP (CHIP) was rebranded ahead of the first devices launching later this year. Google, at I/O 2021, announced support for Matter on Android and Google Nest devices.
Matter provides one standard so that all smart home devices can…
At the “What’s new in Material Design” session this morning, Google shared that its apps are starting to use Google Sans Text. We’ve seen it pop-up in some products already, but the company at I/O 2021 better detailed the font.
As we learned in 2018, Google Sans is a size-optimized version of Product Sans, which is only intended for the company’s official product logos. Since then, the…
