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One of the subtle but valuable new features with iOS 15 is that Siri works even when offline for some commands. That means faster performance, but offline requests won’t work for everything. Let’s look at what does and doesn’t work with offline Siri in iOS 15. Apple announced the new offline Siri functionality during its WWDC keynote and highlighted some use cases. Since Siri can work…

This week, Pixel 5 shipments have been steadily arriving to those who preordered the phone in the US. We’ve already heard the opinions of numerous reviewers, but now that the Google Pixel 5 is out in the wild, we want to know what you think. Four weeks after being announced at Launch Night In, and two weeks after arriving in Europe, the Google Store finally began to ship Pixel 5 units to…

Following through with a long-requested feature from users, Facebook-owned WhatsApp is going to make cloud backups end-to-end encrypted to go along with the end-to-end encryption of the messages sent with the service. The app will offer the feature in “the coming weeks” to iOS and Android users with two ways to fully encrypt their backups. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared the news today…

A year ago, Google streamlined Assistant preferences by switching to one unified list showing all features in alphabetical order. The latest step to simplify Google Assistant settings involves splitting Voice Match and other options by device type. Opening “Voice Match” now reveals two tabs. “This phone” lets you enable/disable “Hey Google,” as well as retrain the hotword. “Other…