After testing got underway last year, YouTube is now more widely rolling out a new in-app messaging system. The aim is to let people “connect over their favorite videos directly on YouTube.” Once ...

If you need space back on your phone or tablet, removing built-in and unused apps can help free up storage and reduce screen clutter. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer writes about how to get more ...

Most well-known budgeting apps use strong security like bank-level encryption to protect user data. Budgeting apps typically have "read-only" access, meaning they can view transactions but cannot move ...

Find out how apps tracking your activity collect personal information through mobile app tracking, location access, and data tracking systems used by popular everyday apps. Brian Ramirez/Pexels From ...

The Meta AI app and ‌Meta‌ AI on WhatsApp have a new "incognito chat" option, which Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said is a "completely private way to interact with AI." Zuckerberg also said that Meta AI's ...

The company says its new Incognito Chat allows you to use its AI chatbot without anyone else—including Meta—being able to access your conversations. The idea of Incognito Chat is to create a way for ...

Rather than launching a sleek, worthwhile encrypted messaging app, Musk dropped a junky, insular extension of his social media platform. One of XChat’s red flags is that users must connect an existing ...

This open-source tool acts as a middleman between elevated Android functionality and permissions and third-party apps, giving the latter (and the user) access to previously locked-away features. It ...

The Gemini app’s Temporary Chat icon has suddenly changed to something that screams “temporary” far less. But now, it looks completely different. A server-side update looks to have switched out the ...

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Apple has updated its developer website this week to spotlight third-party apps using Liquid Glass to “create natural, responsive experiences across Apple platforms.” This is the second version of ...

Apple continues to develop a new feature for its Shortcuts app that will let users generate unique actions using Apple Intelligence models, based on backend code discovered by Nicolás Alvarez and ...