• WhatsApp's new chat filters make it easier to find unread messages

    WhatsApp is making it a bit easier to find specific conversations by introducing Chat Filters. The new update will let you sort messages by All (as it currently is), Groups or Unread. They're all pretty self-explanatory, with Unread showing any, well, unread messages and Groups showing only your group chats. Groups will also show you any subgroups from Communities.  You could already use WhatsApp's search bar to find a particular conversation, so if you know who you're looking for, this update...

  • A big WhatsApp update will soon make it easier to find your chats – here's how

    WhatsApp adds four new filter buttons to the top of the home page so you can easily find unread messages and group chats.

  • Apple makes a major change that makes it significantly cheaper and easier to repair broken iPhones

    Starting this autumn, 'select iPhone models' will be able to receive used components - such as a screen or a camera - from another iPhone.

  • WhatsApp rolls out Chat Filters

    The company this week announced the rollout of new Chat Filters, designed to help users quickly locate specific messages and chats.

  • WhatsApp launches chat filters

    Today WhatsApp has announced the launch of a new feature: chat filters. These will filter your chat list according to different criteria. There are three of these filters, and they appear above the list of chats for easy one-tap access. Their names are very self-explanatory: All, Unread, Groups. So, obviously, tapping on All will show you all of your chats. If you tap Unread, you'll only see those where you have unread messages (whether you haven't opened a chat since new messages came in...

  • This Sonos Update Should Make Searching for Music Easier

    Searching for music on the Sonos interface has always been a little frustrating, but now Sonos is promising to alleviate some of that pain with a new home screen interface across its app and desktop experience. News of the upcoming changes leaked earlier this month, but now we’re able to see actual screenshots and get details of how this rollout will actually look.

  • The independent publisher making a business of celebrity book imprints

    In recent decades, corporate consolidation of the book industry has shrunk the number of and the visions of publishing houses, concentrating power at the top of the remaining Big Five, prioritizing profitability over cultural contribution. Countering that contraction, the 2020 murder of George Floyd has triggered long-overdue inclusionary change in America, and in American book publishing. One manifestation of that change also began that year, when publishing veteran Molly Stern, former senior...

  • Reddit is making it easier to navigate conversations on its mobile apps

    The company is launching a new unified media player, along with instant comment loading and a direct shortcut to conversations. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

  • WhatsApp chat filters separate unread messages, and groups

    WhatsApp chat filters are the latest feature to be added to the popular messaging app, a few weeks after allowing users to pin multiple chats. You can now separate out only chats with unread messages, as well as separate group chats from individual ones more

  • WhatsApp finally introduces chat filters to cut down the clutter

    Finding the right WhatsApp chat window when you're rushing can be troublesome. For example, this morning I almost ruined the anniversary surprise I have planned for my partner by sending details directly to her instead of the pal I was running the idea by. Thankfully the 'delete message' feature may have save me. I hope. I'll find out later. Anyway, while the update being discussed wouldn't have rescued me from that fate, I'm down with anything that'll make filtering the endless chat threads...

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    How Viber's new AI summarizes your busy group chats

    When a group chat blows up, you can accumulate hundreds of texts in seconds, making it time-consuming and challenging to catch up. Viber is leveraging generative AI to solve that problem for its users. Also: Google and MIT launch a free generative AI course for teachersThis week, Viber unveiled a new AI Chat Summary feature that uses OpenAI's technology to summarize unread messages in group chats, handling up to 100 unread messages concisely.  The feature can extract the most important parts of...

  • Uber makes its safety tools easier to access and customize

    Plenty of women who use rideshare services regularly send details of their trips to loved ones and take other precautionary measures, especially at night. Now, Uber is putting all its safety tools in one place, making them easier to access and allowing users to customize them so that they'd automatically switch on. In the app's new safety preferences section, passengers can choose to schedule when its safety tools should automatically get activated, whether it's for every ride after 9PM, on the...