For creating a respectful environment, Google hid the YouTube dislike counts for the viewers. It was a controversial move and Google is turning its attention to the ‘like’ button next. Now because you are neither losing the ability to provide the videos a like, nor see how many other viewers agree. Instead of tapping the ‘like’ button has now picked up a cheerful animation in order to make liking a video that is much more exciting.
The new animation is available on YouTube app for Android as well as on iOS and it was spotted a month ago. The button is a subject to many color changes while expelling loads of colorful streamers and confetti before moving back to static black. While the animation is not as disruptive as the removal of the dislike counts but it is certainly very eye catchy one. On the other hand the animation for tapping the ‘dislike’ button has not been changed.

WhatsApp has been working on message reactions for some time now. Some leaks have shown how the feature will look like on your phone as well as on web version. At the moment the number of reaction emoji is limited but that is going to change soon.
According to some reports, WhatsApp beta for Android 2.22.10.9 provides us a glimpse at how you can add emoji reactions other then five standard ones. When you will tap a message to send a reaction you will see a plus symbol at the right of the reaction carousel. Upon tapping it you will be directed to familiar WhatsApp emoji picker where you can select any emoji of your choice. The new reaction picker is rolling out to the ones using the latest beta version but there is a server-side switch involved so it is not available for everybody at the moment. Earlier it was reported that message reactions went live for some people after updating the beta version 2.22.8.3 but they disabled it soon after.
Emoji reactions seems to be very limited test that has reached to few users. If you are looking for trying your luck you can download the latest beta version of the app. If you can also try your luck by downloading the latest beta version of the app.

Google Photos and Google Lens are the most powerful companies for the camera of your phone. The Photos app has offered integration with Lens in order to handle the text inside the images that you take and for the screenshots. It may not be completely accurate but it works fine.
We have seen that Google Photos demonstrate the capability to recognize the text present in the images and direct users towards interacting with in in Lens. If you have received the update you will find a chip with the option to search inside screenshot for captures with loads of text. However additional chips with Copy text, Crop, Listen and Markup options don’t seem to be available widely. These are the existing options within the app, the addition of these new shortcuts seems intended to make them more visible and easier to access. There is a shortcut to search by using Google Lens which is needless given you already have got a Lens button at the bottom bar. At the moment we have got the option to search within the screenshots but not others.

Twitter users were shouting for an edit button for years and few weeks ago, the CEO of Twitter confirmed that an edit feature will arrive. People have already started seeing the teaser of edit feature which shows how the button will look like and how it will work on the web as well as mobile apps.
Twitter sleuth Alessandro Paluzzi has shared various screenshots of how the edited tweet will look like. From the images, a blue pen icon alongside the text “Edited” will appear on the right hand side of the tweet date whether it is at the bottom or at the top side. The color suggests that the button will be clickable which will make sense.
Paluzzi has hinted on another feature that will prevent the users from misusing the edit button. According to Plauzzi, tweets will only be modifiable 1 hour after they go live. This will give the users lots of time to fix typos and ensure that the essence of 5-year old tweet is not changed to something else. Aside from the proposed Twitter takeover bid by Elon Musk, the announcement edit button is one of the biggest Twitter news in years.

Google is working to make it very easy for all of us to access the information about the local air quality. In 2021, it pushed an update to its Nest Hubs for displaying your local AQI i.e Air Quality Index. Now the information is becoming available for more places as Google Search is starting to show the city-level air quality information.
By searching about air quality or air pollution on Google will display a card that breaks down the AQI nearby. The data is provided by airnow.gov and PurpleAir in US, which joins India and Australia, with access to card. You can specify a location during the search or click “Choose area” in order to display a list of the nearby air quality stations. Under the map you will get breakdown of stations that can easily be expanded to show detailed information and toggling “Include air sensors” will populate the map with pins for local AQI sensors. The interface of the map is pretty basic as you can not move around or zoom in and out which can make examining air sensors difficult.

The popularity of Telegram has been overshadowed by WhatsApp but this messaging service is still very rich in terms of features and none of its competitors have come close to it. And the impressive part is the pace at which the features are coming. The developers behind Telegram love to send major updates on monthly basis. Last month a download manager was added and some user interface changes were also added. Now you can create your own notification tones, allowing you to turn your favorite music and memes into custom alert that can be assigned to any chats.
The latest update adds the custom mute duration thus finally doing away with default eight hours or two days options. These can easily be set through new streamlined menu that can be accessed through three-dot menu within any chat. It also allows you to access recently added auto-delete feature directly from profiles which when turned on lets you have more Snapchat -like experience where chats are deleted automatically at any set interval. Another notable change is that the reply previews are included when you forward messages to other chats.

The edit button of Twitter is coming soon and we have got the teaser of how the button look like on iOS. We have not seen yet what exactly will the workflow will be like. Famous Twitter sleuths Alessandro Paluzzi and Nima Owji have unraveled the parts of the workflow int he web version of the social network.
Palluzi shared a screenshot where he was able to activate a hidden editor for an existing tweet. It look exactly like the regular tweet editor save for small tweak. The “tweet” button at the bottom right corner is replaced with the one labelled ‘update’. Paluzzi also showed off what the edit button will look like in the existing tweet’s context menu where it is labelled “Edit Tweet.” Paluzzi was also able to pull up the interface, it is unlikely that allows you to change his tweets retroactively. This feature has not got a timeout, with Paluzzi being able to pull up interface for any of the old tweet, but everything we have heard about the edit button so far, that will not be the case when the feature will be launched. So far the Edit button will only be available for the verified accounts on Twitter.