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A developer named Ismail Shah announced on LinkedIn three weeks ago that he built the Knit Easy Android app to fix a problem he says plagues knitters and crocheters working from printed or PDF patterns: losing track of the row mid-stitch. The post describes a row highlighter, linked counters, and fully offline operation, and includes a Google Play link. However, the app's current listing details, including its price, permissions, and user ratings, have not been independently verified.

Most Apple TV owners use three remote gestures on repeat: swipe, click, and "Hey Siri, open Netflix." Plenty of other built-in interactions sit untouched on the same remote, and several of them are shortcuts most people never try. Learning even a few of these Apple TV remote shortcuts can save you from restarting the whole box when an app freezes, or from digging through settings just to switch where sound plays.

Google Meet's real-time voice translation jumped from six languages to 63 this week, powered by a new Gemini 3.5 Live Translate model that automatically detects which language someone is speaking instead of locking a call into one fixed pair. This expansion brings Google's Gemini 3.5 Live Translate model to Meet's web and mobile apps, and it removes the old meeting-wide language-pair limit so each participant can pick their own translation language. Most people will still need an eligible paid...

Samsung's One UI 9 update is bringing an unwelcome surprise for some Galaxy S24 and S25 owners: battery life that suddenly falls short of what they're used to. Complaints range from faster overnight drain to phones needing several charges throughout the day.

A notification pings when someone tags you in a group chat, but after you open WhatsApp, finding that message can mean scrolling through dozens of other texts. WhatsApp is testing a fix: a mentions and replies filter spotted in Android beta version 2.26.42.12, according to WABetaInfo's Oct. 24 report.

The Audiophile.fm free lossless radio app, a FLAC radio aggregator that requires no account and runs with no in-app ads, is now available as a native app on iPhone and Android, after launching first as a web player.

Night mode can turn a dark porch into a glowing Halloween scene, but depending on how dark the scene is, the capture can stretch to several seconds, Apple says. That's exactly what trips people up once trick-or-treaters start moving.

Googlebook OS may soon stop making owners rebuild their workspace from scratch every time the laptop restarts. Code strings discovered by Android Authority in Android 17 QPR3 Beta 2 point to an unreleased "App restore on reboot" setting for Googlebook OS.

Score a last-second win in a mobile game with no recorder running, and a Google headline from 2024 suggests the moment might not be lost. The Google sources reviewed here do not establish whether a 30-second retroactive recording feature is currently available on Android.

Google began rolling out the Android 17 QPR3 Beta 3 Pixel update on October 29, with a changelog listing 26 fixes, according to 9to5Google (yesterday). The report names three of those fixes directly: a foldable's inner display staying black after unfolding, intermittent crashes clustered around the lock screen or shortly after startup, and a Recents overview that flickers when a home gesture follows quick app-switching (9to5Google, yesterday).

Apple's new Made for iPhone Duo badge is appearing on App Store product pages, giving owners of the company's first foldable iPhone a way to spot apps designed for its larger screen. But the label doesn't necessarily mean Apple has tested every foldable-specific feature or verified that an app works flawlessly.

YouTube added six new educational Playables games built with Khan Academy, Veritasium, TED-Ed, Math with Mr. J, Black Girls Code, and The Jed Foundation, turning STEM, music, and mindfulness concepts into short interactive games, according to YouTube's announcement published today.

Apple's iOS 27.2 release notes confirm that Shared Albums in Photos now support editing captions and comments, according to the full notes reproduced by iClarified. The update is available now through Settings > General > Software Update.

If the Up Next section vanished from Apple Podcasts after updating to iOS 27.2, it may be because Apple split it into two sections rather than removing the functionality. The update shipped yesterday and reorganizes the Podcasts Home tab into New Episodes and Continue Playing.

A new leak claims the Samsung Galaxy A58's rear camera setup will carry the same megapixel counts as the Galaxy A57: a 50MP main camera, 12MP ultrawide, 5MP macro, plus a 12MP front camera. The claim comes from Dutch outlet GalaxyClub and has since been relayed by outlets including GSMArena and Tech Advisor.

Search "Google Messages Gemini AI feature poll" and most results point to one specific survey ranking Gemini's reach into Messages as readers' least-favorite feature. The original source behind that specific poll is no longer reachable, so this piece won't repeat a vote count, a named "winner," or any figure that can't currently be verified. What's confirmed through other reporting is the feature that kind of poll is trying to capture: Google's decision to let Gemini tap into Phone, Messages,...

Netflix and Krafton confirmed today that a live-action series based on PUBG is in development, with Donald Glover attached as star, writer, director, and executive producer, according to Polygon. That four-role combination on a single video-game adaptation is the actual news here, not the game itself.

Apple has redesigned the removable AC plug on its 70W and 140W USB-C power adapters, and the new pill-shaped fitting does not accept older C7-style duckheads or the previous extension cable. That creates a compatibility problem for travelers who want to reuse Apple's older plugs or extension cables with the newly revised chargers.

If you're searching for how to open two Safari windows side by side on iPhone Duo, Apple now provides official instructions. The feature works on the unfolded phone in landscape, and users can launch a second window of Safari through Split View. Apple's iPhone User Guide documents the steps, including how to open two windows of the same app.

If your edited Google Photos pictures stopped showing up in WhatsApp's attachment picker, Google has an actual fix. The bug sent edited images into hiding across WhatsApp, Telegram, and a handful of other Android apps, even though the photos never left Google Photos itself. APKMirror founder Artem Russakovskii identified version 7.97 as the fix, while 9to5Google independently confirmed the problem no longer occurs in version 7.98.

Google is rolling out a Google Home and Nest speaker update that the company says fixes disappearing speaker groups and stereo pairs, the exact symptom Nest owners have been describing for months. The release notes name the bug directly: stereo pairs and speaker groups that "unexpectedly disappear or become undiscoverable" in the Google Home app, according to Google's October 29 release notes, also reproduced by 9to5Google. The same update bundles in faster local device discovery and a separate...

Some Galaxy S26 Ultra owners are getting stuck during setup after a factory reset, unable to get past a "webpage is unavailable" error and reach the home screen. Samsung has acknowledged the problem on its South Korean support forums, attributing it to unstable system WebView behavior on certain networks while the phone tries to load a Samsung Account page.

OnePlus has squeezed a 9,000mAh battery, a built-in cooling fan, and high-refresh-rate gaming hardware into its latest Chinese smartphones. The Ace 7 and Ace 7 Pro offer an enticing glimpse of what could arrive in the next OnePlus R-series phone, although the unannounced OnePlus 16R may not inherit everything.

Samsung News is shutting down worldwide on December 21, 2026, bringing an end to the built-in news service that many Galaxy owners use for headlines, sports scores, stock updates, and personalized recommendations. Samsung News will stop providing content through its app, home-screen feed, and widget, leaving regular users with a deadline to preserve their preferences.

Samsung has started pushing the stable Galaxy A54 One UI 9 update. As of last week's reporting, it's reaching beta testers in South Korea only, closing out a one-month beta program. The build arrives as firmware A546SKSUKGZJ5, a compact 274.52MB download, according to SamMobile.

Some Samsung Galaxy phones can now send photos, videos, and files directly to an iPhone using a version of Quick Share built to work with AirDrop, WIRED reports. Figuring out how to use Quick Share from Samsung Galaxy to iPhone starts with one specific setting, because the feature isn't automatic on every Galaxy model the way it is on Pixel phones.

tvOS 27.2 landed on October 26, 2026, as a free update for Apple TV 4K (2nd generation, 2021) and later, and most of what's inside it works the moment you install it. The tvOS 27.2 features for Apple TV 4K include Find My support for the Siri Remote, a new screensaver Shuffle mode with private photo controls, FaceTime Links, and sign-language support.

The new YouTube Premium–Peacock bundle isn't available to sign up for yet, and the companies haven't announced its pricing or eligible plans. Peacock is already available separately through YouTube Primetime Channels, but that's a different subscription arrangement.

A $699 Google Pixel 11 figure can be produced by combining a reported $899 starting price with a $200 trade-in value, not by finding a markdown on Google's price tag. Engadget reported that the base Pixel 11 starts at $899, and in the same report, a base-storage iPhone 11 traded in toward a new Pixel was valued at $200, a combination that lands close to $699 (Engadget).

Search for "Zelda" or "Ocarina of Time" on Google, and you may spot a tiny Master Sword hovering at the edge of the results page. Tap it, and a Triforce flashes across the tab before the retro results page appears, styled to resemble Google's look from 1998. That's the Google Ocarina of Time Easter egg, and it's timed precisely to land the same week as Nintendo's remake of the game.

Apple released iOS 27.3 beta 1 today, and the iOS 27.3 StandBy mode update is the standout change, pulling the iPhone Duo's redesigned clock faces, colors, and complications onto other iPhone models for the first time, according to 9to5Mac. The feature set, including multiple saved face configurations, new Calendar and Weather faces, and Shared Album support in Photos, had previously been positioned as a hardware differentiator exclusive to the Duo.

Disney's October 2025 price increase reshaped the math on its streaming bundles. The Disney+ Hulu bundle price hike raised the ad-supported bundle to $12.99 a month while leaving the $19.99 ad-free Premium bundle unchanged.

Spotify Family plan address verification can block people who genuinely live with the plan manager, and missing a follow-up verification request can cost them their spot on the plan entirely.

The Glowbar, the light strip built into the lid of Googlebook laptops, normally shows information such as battery status and Gemini activity. A hidden system app called Glowbar Disco turns that same strip into a customizable, music-reactive light show, and figuring out how to find Glowbar Disco on Googlebook means digging past the regular app launcher into the system settings menu.

Microsoft is reshaping Copilot Notebooks from a source-grounded question-and-answer tool into something that can act on notebook content: delegating tasks, running recurring automations, and editing Office files directly inside a notebook, according to Neowin.

A failed WinRE servicing update, a reagentc /enable error, or an INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE message after entering recovery can trace back to different root causes, including recovery-partition problems, encryption-related registration issues, or a storage driver unavailable to the recovery image. WinRE Manager v49 is a third-party, developer-maintained PowerShell tool designed to diagnose and repair several of those failure modes.

Microsoft has resolved a known issue that caused black screens, desktop loading failures, and Explorer crashes right after sign-in on some Windows 11 systems.

Nvidia RTX Spark Windows laptops became available from OEM partners on Oct. 16, 2026, after preorders opened ahead of launch. Nvidia and Microsoft are marketing this hardware heavily around local AI agents and large language models that run without a cloud connection. That pitch is only part of the story.

Samsung has started rolling out the stable, Android 17-based One UI 9 update to the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5. The rollout began in South Korea and has since expanded to parts of Europe, although availability still varies by country, carrier, and device variant.

ITavisen reports that Google's own support documentation confirms phone number verification is enabled by default on Android, automatically verifying a number and adding it to every Google account signed in on that device. That covers current and future accounts and phone numbers, not just the one account used to set up the phone in the first place.