ios News of 01/16/21

Google Maps Takes On Facebook With Launch Of Its Own News Feed

Google Maps takes on Facebook with launch of its own news feed image People are getting frustrated that Stories are everywhere now , but Google Maps is keeping it old school. Instead of adding tiny circles to the top of the app’s screen, Google Maps is introducing its own news feed. Technically, Google calls ...

Apple Embraces IOS 14 Home Screen Customization By Fixing How App Shortcuts Work

Apple is making a change to how app shortcuts work in the next release of the iOS 14 operating system. In iOS 14.3, beta 2, the Shortcuts app will now no longer open when you tap on an app shortcut on your iPhone’s home screen. That means ...

Facebook Launches E.Gg, An Experimental Collage Making App

Facebook launches E.gg, an experimental collage making app image Facebook’s internal R&D group, NPE Team, has today officially launched its latest app, E.gg , to a broader audience. The app, a freeform creation tool described as a “digital zine creator” and “GIF collage ...

Marissa Mayer’S Startup Launches Its First Official Product, Sunshine Contacts

Marissa Mayer’s startup launches its first official product, Sunshine Contacts image Former Yahoo CEO and early Google employee Marissa Mayer’s startup Lumi Labs is today rebranding to Sunshine and releasing its first official product. Its new app, Sunshine Contacts, aims to be a better tool for organizing, ...

Yeah, Apple’S m1 MacBook Pro Is Powerful, But It’S The Battery Life That Will Blow You Away

Yeah, Apple’s M1 MacBook Pro is powerful, but it’s the battery life that will blow you away image Survival and strategy games are often played in stages. You have the early game where you’re learning the ropes, understanding systems. Then you have mid-game where you’re executing and gathering resources. The most fun part, for me, has always been ...

Apple’S IDFA Gets Targeted In Strategic EU Privacy Complaints

A unique device identifier that Apple assigns to each iPhone for third parties to track users for ad targeting — aka the IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) — is itself now the target of two new complaints filed by European privacy ...

This Week In Apps: Conservative Apps Surge, Instagram Redesigned, TikTok Gets Ghosted

This Week in Apps: Conservative apps surge, Instagram redesigned, TikTok gets ghosted image Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with  a record  204 billion downloads and $120 ...

IOS Apps Can Run On Apple’S New Apple Silicon Macs

iOS apps can run on Apple’s new Apple Silicon Macs image Apple detailed today how its new Apple Silicon Macs would be capable of running a wider range of apps than before, even in the case where an iOS developer hasn’t released a Mac -compatible version of their mobile experience. The company ...

Apple Magsafe Duo Charger Review: Useful, But Expensive And Underwhelming 

Apple Magsafe Duo Charger Review: Useful, but expensive and underwhelming  image In addition to the new iPhone 12 mini and the iPhone 12 Pro Max, I was able to try out Apple’s new MagSafe Duo Charger. It’s a folding dual travel charger that will hold both an iPhone using MagSafe and an Apple Watch using its more traditional ...

Review: The IPhone 12 Pro Max Is Worth Its Handling Fee

Review: The iPhone 12 Pro Max is worth its handling fee image The iPhone 12 Pro Max is probably the easiest of all of the new iPhone 12 models to review. It’s huge and it has a really, really great camera. Probably one of the best cameras ever in a smartphone if not the best. For those of you coming from an ...

IPhone 12 Mini Review: Tiny Package, Big Bang

iPhone 12 mini Review: Tiny package, big bang image Reviewing the iPhone 12 mini and the iPhone 12 Pro Max at the same time has been an exercise in extremes. I noted in my earlier reviews of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro that it was difficult to evaluate the middle of the lineup without having the ...

Apple Releases IOS 14.2 With New Emojis And Accessibility Feature That Locates People With LiDAR

Apple has released iOS 14.2 today. It includes multiple new features as well as some important bug fixes and security updates. Among other things, this release introduces over 100 new emojis . You’ll find a transgender flag, a smiling face with ...

NBC News Launches An IOS 14 Widget That Puts Election Results On Your Home Screen

NBC News launches an iOS 14 widget that puts election results on your home screen image NBC News has updated its iOS app with a new feature that brings election news, data and results directly to your iPhone or iPad home screen. With the app’s new “Decision 2020” iOS 14 widget, you can customize a series of widgets ...

Pinterest’S New Widget Brings Photos From Favorite Boards To Your IOS 14 Homescreen

As iPhone owners began customizing their iOS 14 homescreens with new widgets and custom icons, Pinterest iOS downloads and searches surged as the app became a top source for design ideas and inspiration. Today, Pinterest is more directly joining ...

This Week In Apps: Quibi Dies, Snapchat Soars, Halide Upgrades For IPhone 12

This Week in Apps: Quibi dies, Snapchat soars, Halide upgrades for iPhone 12 image Welcome back to This Week in  Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with  a record  204 billion downloads and $120 ...

Review: IPad Air, Smooth Criminal

Review: iPad Air, smooth criminal image The 2020 iPad Air comes at an interesting time in Apple’s release cycle. The iPad Pro is still strong from a specs perspective but is now technically a half generation or so behind in CPU. The new pro models won’t arrive for (theoretical) months. ...

Mobile By Peak Design Is A New, Complete Mobile Mounting Solution For Everyday Convenience

Mobile by Peak Design is a new, complete mobile mounting solution for everyday convenience image After a steady stream of successful product launches and Kickstarter campaigns, Peak Design is back with a new one – Mobile by Peak Design . The startup that created a rich ecosystem of photography and packing gear is tackling mobile devices next, ...

Apple Launches A U.S.-Only Music Video Station, Apple Music TV

Apple launches a U.S.-only music video station, Apple Music TV image Apple is expanding its investment in music with today’s launch of “Apple Music TV.” The new music video station offers a free, 24-hour livestream of popular music videos and other music content, including, exclusive video ...

This Week In Apps: Apple’S Big Event, Lidar Comes To IPhone, Android Gets A New IDE

This Week in Apps: Apple’s big event, lidar comes to iPhone, Android gets a new IDE image Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with  a record  204 billion downloads and $120 ...

Three Views On The Future Of Media Startups

The Equity crew this week chewed through a trio of media stories , each dealing with private companies and their successes. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Axios was growing rapidly and near profitability. The paper also broke news ...