Mobile

In mid-2019, Google introduced live previews for videos in the main timeline of the Photos app. This autoplay behavior in the Google Photos for Android grid can be disabled.  While it serves as a fast way to preview videos as you’re scrolling the timeline, some find this behavior to be annoying and rather distracting. (It’s pretty much standard behavior, e.g. Instagram’s “Search” tab…

Earlier this month, Google confirmed that a bug between Microsoft Teams and Android could lead to users being unable to reliably call 911. That issue has since been fixed, but Google is now notifying users over email to update the app if they haven’t already done so. An email push going out to some Android users as documented on Twitter and Reddit comes directly from Google to let users know…

What appears to be an official teaser video for the OnePlus 10 Pro has arrived online, offering another look at the camera bump and green colorway as well as the device’s launch event date. OnePlus has been preparing to shake things up a bit this coming year, with Pete Lau recently teasing that their 2022 phones would be announced in January instead of the usual March/April window. We now have…

We’re today learning more about what prompted the Foxconn iPhone plant shutdown in southern India – and it makes for truly gruesome reading. We learned yesterday that Apple ordered Foxconn to suspend production at the plant, and placed the company on probation, until it resolved problems with living conditions in the company dormitories. It’s only today, however, that we’re getting the…