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Concept: The natural next step for the iOS emoji keyboard after search is favorites

As Apple adds more emoji with each subsequent iOS update, it’s getting harder and harder to sift through all them just to find the emoji you want to use. The “frequently used” emoji panel helps with this to some extent, but it is dynamic and only “remembers” so many. Typing descriptors to search for emoji can be tedious, and what if you don’t know the proper search terms to bring up…
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Twitter relaunches ‘review before you tweet’ prompt on iOS to discourage offensive replies

Back in May of 2020, Twitter started testing a feature on iOS aimed at helping users rethink a reply before hitting the send button when it might contain offensive language. After pausing the testing, Twitter has announced today that it has relaunched the experiment. Here’s how Twitter described the feature when testing first started last year: When things get heated, you may say things you…
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Journey to the Savage Planet has crashing issues on Stadia, Google working on a fix

Months after Google acquired the studio behind it, Journey to the Savage Planet finally made its debut on Stadia early this month with new expansions and no cost for Pro subscribers. Unfortunately, Journey to the Savage Planet on Stadia faced some crashing and freezing bugs, but a fix is coming. If you take a peek at the Stadia subreddit, you’ll find many reports of Journey to the Savage…
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Google working on built-in ‘Wear OS Screen Recording’ tool

Following a small tweak to the notification experience last week, Google’s next feature for Wear OS looks to be a Screen Recording tool. Similar in implementation to screenshots, evidence of this functionality appears in an update to the Wear OS Android companion app…
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Google Calendar now lets you set split working hours, repeating OOO entries

Back in 2019, Google made the “Working Hours” feature in Calendar much more prominent to aid Digital Wellbeing efforts. Google Calendar is now adding support for split working hours, as well as creating repeat out of office (OOO) entries. As many people have experienced changes to their working environments in the past year, their work schedules have also changed—and are now often mixed…
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