Snapchat has not been accessible on any device other than smartphones even though all of its competitors have had the web versions for quite some time now. But now Snapchat has also announced that they are coming up with a eb version for its users.
Snapchat for Web will allow you to log into your account and chat with your friends. You can also call your friends from the desktop. Snapchat Plus subscribers will have access to all these features first. Snapchat Plus is a recently announced premium tiers for Snapchat that allows you to have access to exclusive features like Story Watch Indicator, icons, custom themes and many more. But there are some restrictions in Snapchat for Web that it only works with Google Chrome and it does not support Apple’s Safari browser. It will also work with other browsers based on Chromium engine like MS Edge, Brave, Opera and many others.
Facebook has got new Feed and Home tabs
Facebook has come up with new Feed tab and it will allow you to find the most recent posts from your friends, favorites, groups and pages. The primary tab which opens when you open the app has now been named as Home. Home tab will allow you to view reels, stories as well as some other content through recommendations.
The Home tab has become a discovery engine that lets its users to connect with new creators and content. Home tab is based on Artificial Intelligence in order to serve recommended content. As for as feeds is concerned, it will allow you to access latest post of your friends, communities as well as groups that you are connected with. There are no ads and recommendations on the feed tab. You can apply different filters in order to sort the content. These filters will allow you to find latest content of your favorites, pages, groups and friends. You can access the feed tab from the shortcut bar. For iOS the shortcut bar is located at the bottom of the app whereas on Android, it will be located on the top. The shortcut bar will arrange the tabs depending upon the ones you use the most but you can change this order by pinning the tabs.
YouTube Music will soon be equipped with a sleep timer
Android is eager to take you to an amazing journey of music playing but what you do if you do not want to keep it playing forever. You can use various automation apps like Tasker or can install a 3rd party app. But the best option is to have a native sleep timer. YouTube Music will soon be equipped with sleep timer thus making it ideal friend during the breaks, workouts or whenever you need to listen for so long.
In a latest update to YouTube Music has added support for new Android 13 media player. In addition to the visible changes there is also work on new functionality behind the scenes. Google Play Music has featured a sleep timer so that music can be paused automatically at preset user-defined time. The option was available in main settings menu but it was not the simplest one to get to and then use.
Google Photos now shows backup quality and file size for your images
Google Photos is one of the most famous services for the backup of the gallery among the Android users. Now it has recently received a steady stream of updates and enhancements. It has brought the features like Real Tone filters, chip shortcuts and home screen shortcut for your screenshots. The latest development to Photos adds new element to the information section for the images thus making it very easy to tell each file’s backed up resolution as well as size.
When you are accessing your Photos backup by using a web browser, select an image and click on ‘I’ button. You will see EXIF data for upload, including filename, day and date of capturing. Location, camera used and settings. It mentions the backup quality either the Storage saver or Original quality and whether file is taking up space in your account storage. Google in the past allowed Pixel users unlimited high quality image backups but that was changed in January 2022. If you are running out of the cloud storage on your Google account you can use ‘Manage storage’ option in Google Photos for removing blurry photos, large videos and unnecessary screenshots.
WhatsApp is working on quick reactions for status updates
WhatsApp keeps coming up with new features with each passing day. The latest inclusion has been emoji message reactions and the subsequent expansion of available emoji. One of the under development feature is the ability to add a voice message to your WhatsApp status. But that is not only the single change coming to the status page, though with the latest beta release showing work towards ability to reply to users’ status updates with instant reactions like Instagram.
Users can react to status updates with eight emoji which include heart, sadness, laughter, gratitude, shock and the usual celebratory or congratulatory moods. The recipient of the reactions will see emoji as a reply to their status update. This is not the major update but the users of Facebook and Instagram will feel familiar
The new subtle update of Twitter gives users something to chirp about
Twitter has been at the center stage for all the good as well as bad reasons. People have the idea about the bad part so we will only focus on the good part here. Twitter has improved over past few months with the introduction of some new features like bottom bar customizations and automatically generated video captions to name a few. Now there is another impressive sounding addition is on its way.
Twitter now plays chirping sounds when users pull down their feeds to refresh. When you pull it down a windup trill plays and when you let it go it plays a chirp sound. Both of these sounds are bird-sounding and complement Twitter’s vibe. Previous refresh sound was a bit boring pop. Users hope that more sounds throughout the UI will get replaced with cuter ones.
WhatsApp has tested the reaction previews in your chat list
WhatsApp launched the message reactions in chats a couple of months ago. The stakeholders were late in introducing this feature with Telegram delivering the feature last December. On the other hand social media giant Instagram supported emoji reactions for much longer. But now WhatsApp developers are taking it very seriously as there is a huge expansion of emoji options for reactions. Now the Meta-owned entity is testing some of new previews for reaction of the message within the chat list.
According to WABetaInfo, the feature can not be disabled even if you turn off reaction notifications from the app’s settings. The message reaction previews are available only for handful of WhatsApp beta testers. If you are part of WhatsApp beta via Google Play beta program, you can check to see if you have got access to the new interface.