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Instagram has a share feature that lets you copy the link to a post, any post, and share it. The sharing is private though; you can send it to a friend or you can copy a link and paste it somewhere. You cannot share a post by another account to …

LinkedIn introduced group messaging a while back and it was a predictable disaster. There is, to this day, no control over who can and cannot add you to a LinkedIn group message. Sometime after this feature was introduced, LinkedIn added the option to leave group message threads but it too …

AR hasn’t really been as popular as it was first thought to be but one game that uses it well is Pokèmon Go. It’s AR feature is a core part of the game even if you turn the camera view off. The game has added a new feature called Snapshot …

When you look up a location on Google Maps, you can enter as much information about it as you know. If you only know the name of an establishment, that will often be enough. Any additional information, such as the street or neighborhood it’s in, can be added alongside the …

Snapchat doesn’t let you share photos in landscape mode. If you have a photo that you took in landscape mode, it’s going to be rotated sideways in a snap. Needless to say, the photo will look bad and it’s highly likely that any text you add will obscure the subject …

Google translate isn’t just a web service. There are official smartphone apps for the service that can translate both speech and text. You can take a photograph of text, and the app will translate it as well via the OCR feature. Since the app uses a web service, it stands …

Whatsapp has end-to-end encryption. Chats between users are encrypted using an encryption key that’s kept hidden. You cannot see what key is assigned to you however, users too need a way to check if their chat is encrypted . To do that, users get a security code which isn’t the …

Snapchat has a video and voice call feature. It’s hardly the highlight of the social app and not popular enough for Facebook or Instagram to have copied it. That said, Snapchat appears to think it’s worth banking on. In a recent app update, a new feature has been added that …

A Whatsapp group is always created to make communication with lots of people easier. Instead of individually messaging people, you can send the information to a group, and everyone gets it. Unfortunately, these groups spiral out of control. With so many members, the groups end up suffering from message overload. …

Facebook Messenger has two different inboxes for every user; your main inbox, and the filtered messages inbox. The main inbox is where messages from your contacts appear, and where message requests from people in your circle go. Filtered messages are just that; people trying to connect with you and you …