All articles tagged with #app features
The author laments that Instagram has become overly complicated with multiple features like Stories, Reels, and AI prompts, turning simple photo sharing into a complex content creation platform. They wish for a simpler, more straightforward photo sharing mode, akin to the app's earlier days, instead of the current bloated experience focused on engagement and content.
Fitbit has rolled out a dark mode feature for its Android app, enhancing user comfort and battery life, along with other updates like improved workout machine support and new health report features, responding to user requests and enhancing the app's functionality.
Google Photos is revamping its photo view with a simpler, modern UI, including new features like an 'Add to' menu replacing Lens for organizing photos, and a more streamlined actions menu. The update offers a light mode option, glanceable details, and improved bulk actions, with rollout on iOS and Android coming soon.
Nintendo Today! app has added new features including calendar linking, favorites, and customizable widgets for iOS and Android, enhancing user experience with personalized content and easy access to Nintendo updates.
OpenAI has launched the ChatGPT app for macOS, offering a powerful and convenient desktop version of the chatbot. The app features a quick launch shortcut, the ability to analyze files and images, and integration with macOS functionalities like drag-and-drop. While it lacks offline mode and uses queries for training by default, it significantly enhances productivity and ease of use on a Mac. Future updates will include new audio and video capabilities.
YouTube Music's Android app is introducing a new feature that allows users to search for songs by humming, whistling, singing, or playing a recording. The feature, marked by a waveform icon, quickly identifies songs with impressive accuracy, though it occasionally misses. This new capability is similar to Google Assistant's existing feature and has been spotted on iOS as well.
Waze is introducing new features to improve navigation, including the ability to find parking garages with pricing information, alerting drivers when the speed limit is about to decrease, providing guidance through roundabouts, comparing favorite routes with live traffic updates, and alerting users to upcoming hazards and emergency vehicles. The parking garage feature will roll out in the coming weeks, while other features will be available this month on Android and later this year on iPhone.
Fitbit has removed challenges and open groups, two of its long-time features, from its app as part of its effort to streamline areas of the app as it moves towards further Google integration. The move has not been well-received by the community, with many calling on Google to reverse the decision. The "Discover" tab in the Fitbit app now only shows workout guides, mindfulness and nutrition content, and similar programs and content.