Google’s hub for Android gamers, Google Play Games, has now been downloaded over 5 billion times from the Play Store, and Google Meet has also hit a new milestone.
Google Play Games, first launched in 2013, was intended to be a competitor to Apple’s Game Center on the iPhone, gathering your phone’s many games into one place. It also offers a few social features, introduces achievements to…
Here’s the Android 13 Pixel update changelog with 150 fixes
August 16, 2022
To make up for the delay at the start of this month, Google is promptly — factory/OTA images are already available — rolling out Android 13 on Pixel phones, complete with a detailed changelog.
Android 13 hands-on: Here’s EVERY user-facing feature, function, and…
Galaxy Z Flip 4 and Fold 4 get boosted battery life with new ‘Light’ performance profile
August 16, 2022
Battery life is one of the key areas of improvement for the Galaxy Z Flip 4, but there’s a boost hiding beneath the surface. In One UI 4.1.1 on the Galaxy Z Flip 4 and Galaxy Z Fold 4, Samsung has added a battery-boosting performance profile.
Buried in the settings on…
Dark mode made its way to most apps over the past couple of years, but there have still been some hold-outs. For disc golf players, the excellent UDisc scorekeeping app has just picked up support for dark mode across Android and iOS.
UDisc’s support for dark mode on Android and iOS has been rolling out over the last several days. The change arrives with the latest update on both platforms…
Google is rolling out a pair of updates to Meet on the web that improve the accuracy and minimize the performance impact of background effects.
Google Meet on the web now has “improved background and foreground separation” that results in “more accurate background…
iOS 16 beta 6 and iPadOS 16 beta 6 are now rolling out to developers, one week after the fifth beta was released. iOS 16 brings a number of changes, including updates to the Lock Screen, new wallpaper options, and more. iOS 16 beta 6 will continue refining these new…
Apple last week released iOS 16 beta 5, and the update came with a surprise: it added battery percentage to modern iPhones (iPhone X and later) for the first time. With iOS 16 beta 6, which was released earlier today to developers, the company is giving users even more control over the battery percentage when Low Power Mode is enabled.
Previously, the battery percentage was already optional, so…
iCloud Shared Photo Library: Here’s how it works in iOS 16
August 16, 2022
Apple is bringing a major change to the Photos app with iOS 16 that makes it much easier to share important photos and videos with loved ones. Going beyond the Shared Albums feature that’s been available for years, iCloud Shared Photo Library lets you automatically or…
TikTok adds an AI image generator, but it's no DALL-E
August 16, 2022
You don’t need to fire up DALL-E if you want AI to create images from text — you just need a popular social media app. The Verge notes TikTok has introduced a rudimentary “AI greenscreen” effect in its Android and iOS apps that turns your text…
Android 13 is rolling out to Pixel phones today
August 16, 2022
Android 13 is coming out of beta and will start rolling out to Pixels today, with devices from Samsung, ASUS, Nokia (HMD), Motorola, OnePlus, Oppo, Sony, Xiaomi and more expected to get the update later this year. The latest version of Google’s mobile operating system brings more granular privacy controls, a new photo picker, Bluetooth LE audio and more. Those who want even more…
