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The Cambridge Analytica scandal made a lot of people think about deleting Facebook. Since then, Facebook has vowed to improve how it protects its users data. It’s also made it possible for users that use other apps that it owns to download their personal data. A lot of other apps …

For some reason, almost every social media app has decided auto playing videos is a great feature. The latest entry in this foray is LinkedIn, the supposedly professional networking app that now automatically plays videos in your feed. Surprisingly, the videos don’t auto-play if you’re on LinkedIn for web. It …

Instagram has a new photo capture mode called Focus mode. It works with the story camera and is available on both Android and iOS users. There’s just one catch though; there are device limitations. What this means is, Focus mode isn’t going to be available on all devices. Focus Mode …

If you find an interesting post in your Instagram feed, you can share it with your followers in one of two ways; the Repost app, or by sharing it to your story. The Repost app fills a gap that Instagram refuses to address; resharing posts. Instagram doesn’t let users share …

Smartphone apps are all screen, or mostly screen. Buttons have all but disappeared from them and navigation is done through swipe gestures. In a complex app, you will find there are a lot of gestures that do a lot of different things. Tinder is an app that inspired gestures in …

Photo albums have become a staple feature on smartphones. They’re not a way to organize photos. If you look at iOS, they’ve taken on a more nostalgic function in the form of Memories. Facebook is home to one of the largest online photo collections. Unlike Flickr, the photos on Facebook …

Your location can be tracked through your phone’s GPS data. GPS i.e. global positioning system can identify where you are, and what time you were in a particular location. It’s very privileged information and it makes sense that users would have the option to turn off GPS on their phones. …

YouTube has more content than a person can watch in a single lifetime and we’re not even taking into account the boring, uninteresting stuff. Just the stuff that’s gone viral and is mildly popular is too much for one person’s lifetime. That said, we definitely try to watch as many …

Mobile websites are websites that are optimized for viewing on a mobile device. Some websites optimize only the look while others will also serve up special content that isn’t data heavy. A good mobile site is one that can give you access to everything the desktop site can but the …

Google Lens is a neat feature that Google announced for Pixel devices last year. It’s a sophisticated photo scanning feature that identifies items in your photos and provides additional information about them. The feature is meant to help identify important buildings, or landmarks but it also, reportedly, works with books, …