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iOS 16 notifications: Three ways to change the new design

To coincide with the new Lock Screen widgets, Apple has also redesigned the notification system in iOS 16. Starting this year, notifications now appear at the bottom of your Lock Screen rather than at the top below the clock. This change is proving to be controversial for many iPhone users, but there are a few settings you can tweak that might improve the experience for you… iOS 16…
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Android Auto’s redesign ditches the weather icon, but it’s finally fixed on the old look

Android Auto is in the midst of a redesign, and with that has come some big changes to the platform. One of those changes is ditching the persistent, glanceable weather icon in Android Auto’s status bar. But some good news, that’s finally fixed on the original look. The story of a glanceable weather widget on Android Auto has gone back and forth. It was there in the original version of…
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Flighty update brings live flight tracking data to your iPhone, even when you’re in Airplane Mode

The flight tracking app Flighty has been one of the top implementations yet of Apple’s new Live Activities feature in iOS 16 and the iPhone 14 Pro. A new update rolling out this week, just in time for holiday travel, adds a clever new trick for updating your flight progress with real data even when you’re in the air. Live Activity support is available for all iPhone models running iOS 16.1 or…
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Galaxy S20 FE and Galaxy S21 FE are now getting Android 13

Samsung is now bringing Android 13 to the Galaxy S20 FE and the Galaxy S21 FE, starting in select regions. Following updates to the rest of the Galaxy S20 and Galaxy S21 series, Samsung is now expanding One UI 5 to its pair of “Fan Edition” devices. The Galaxy S20 FE and…
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Google tweaking Nearby Share with a touch of Material You [Gallery]

The other change Google is making to Nearby Share are UI tweaks that infuse Material You to the main sheet you interact with. About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the Play Store. When we decompile these files (called APKs, in the case of Android apps), we’re able to see various lines of code within that…
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