Mobile

The engineering lead of Google’s Fuchsia operating system, Chris McKillop, has announced his departure from Google. Google has been known to be developing Fuchsia as a from-scratch operating system since at least 2016. Fuchsia ultimately saw its first launch last year on the first-gen Nest Hub smart display. For much of that time, the Fuchsia project has been headed up by Director of…

As promised in February, YouTube TV is rolling out picture-in-picture (PiP) to its iPhone and iPad app. It comes as the main YouTube for iOS client is still only previewing an identical capability. YouTube TV tweeted today that picture-in-picture is “now rolling out” to phones and tablets running iOS 15:  Simply select a video to watch and swipe ⬆️ from the bottom of the screen to…

If you want to ensure your iOS devices are updated as soon as new releases are available, you should do manual iOS updates. The indirect advice comes from no less a source than Apple SVP of software engineering, Craig Federighi. If you instead rely on automatic updates, you could be waiting days or weeks … Federighi answered an email from a Reddit user. I wrote an email to Craig Federighi who…

After predicting the iPhone 15 could feature under-display Touch ID, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo now says a latest survey indicates neither the 2023 nor the 2024 iPhone may adopt this technology, as Apple could be satisfied with its software solutions and new technologies. In a tweet, Kuo wrote: I previously predicted iPhones would support under-display fingerprint sensing/Touch ID in 2023 at…