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• 5 apps every electric vehicle owner needs to know about

  Switching to an electric vehicle might mean that you find yourself relying on your smartphone a bit more than usual in order ...

  • Rebecca Bellan

• Anti-competitive probes could spell trouble for Apple and its App Store

  If the coronavirus pandemic has shown us anything, it’s just how much people depend on a few large technology companies. ...

  • The Conversation

• Report: Microsoft plans to get xCloud onto iOS without the App Store

  Microsoft is allegedly planning to sneak xCloud cloud gaming onto iOS via browser, avoiding the App Store and Apple's restrictions ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Android 12 will make it easier to install and use alternative app stores

  Native app stores, namely Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store, have been facing criticism for their dominance and power ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Apple’s iOS 14 will give users more privacy protection — and publishers aren’t happy about it

  iPhone users are about to receive access to Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 14. It will come with the usual ...

  • The Conversation

• Apple will allow xCloud and Stadia on the App Store, with big restrictions

  Apple today revealed that, after stubbornly refusing to allow cloud gaming apps like Google Stadia and Microsoft's xCloud ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Are the benefits of Apple’s App Store worth 30% of your revenue?

  Unsurprisingly, Apple maintains its 30% revenue cut on the App Store is fair. In order to test that, I calculated what companies ...

  • Alejandro Cantarero

• Apple rips into Epic Games in a court filing about the Fortnite saga

  Grab your popcorn everyone, and let's read the latest round of mud-slinging as Apple fires back at Epic Games in latest episode ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Apple and Google remove Fortnite from their app stores, and Epic declares war

  Apple and Google have removed Fortnite from their app stores over new in-app purchase options, and developer Epic Games has ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Apple clashes with Microsoft, Google, and Facebook over cloud gaming

  The big tech companies are having a fight over cloud gaming -- specifically, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook are angry at ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Google and Apple boot 59 banned Chinese apps in India from their app stores

  Two days after India banned 59 Chinese apps over security and privacy concerns, these apps are removed from the Google Play ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• India bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok and Helo

  India has banned 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, Shareit, Mi Video, and UC Browser amid tension between two countries. The ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Apple dictating countries' contact-tracing app policies won’t help its EU anti-trust probe

  There’s a growing problem with Apple’s role in the contact-tracing apps that countries are developing to help fight the ...

  • The Conversation

• Apple's App Store model isn't worth the 30% charge for today's developers

  Capiche is a secret society for SaaS power users, building a new community of people who care about software to make the ...

  • Capiche

• Apple approves Hey email app — but it'll have to submit new version that follows App Store rules

  Hours before Apple's developer conference WWDC kicks off, the company finally approved a new version of Basecamp's much-talked-about ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Apple says it won't change App Store rules for Hey -- or anyone else

  After this week's events, Apple's App Store is one of the most controversial products in tech. However, the company's vice ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• How to cancel the subscriptions you've purchased on your iPhone

  Want to cancel a Netflix or Apple Arcade subscription you made on your iPhone? Here's how you can do that.

  • Rachel Kaser

• Qatar forces residents to install its coronavirus tracker — or face the consequences

  Qatar is making it mandatory for all citizens and residents to install its coronavirus tracker when going out — or face ...

  • Mix

• Facebook launches standalone Messenger desktop app

  Facebook just released a new app that allows you to access Messenger from your desktop. It includes unlimited group and video ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• App stores attempt to keep lid on coronavirus misinformation

  Google and Apple are attempting to keep coronavirus misinformation to a minimum and are reportedly rejecting or scrubbing ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Fuck this — you'll soon get push notification ads on iOS

  Yep, Apple's updated App Store guidelines allow developers to send you push notifications ads on iOS. Stop the world, I want ...

  • Callum Booth

• Google removes 'nearly 600' apps from the Play Store over annoying ads

  Google is cracking down on apps on the Google Play Store with the most obnoxious ads. The company today announced it had ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Apple reportedly 'considering' allowing you to set your own default apps

  After years of forcing its own apps as the default on all of its devices, rumor has it Apple may finally be changing -- if ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Facebook just released a Pinterest-style app called Hobbi

  Facebook doesn't exactly need any more presence in the social media business, but that isn't going to the stop the company ...

  • Napier Lopez

• The UAE is reportedly spying on millions of ToTok messenger users (Update: It's back on Google Play)

  ToTok, an Emirati messaging app, is being used by the government of the UAE to track users' chats and listen in on their ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Instagram cracks down on app that allowed users to stalk private profiles

  Instagram is cracking down on Ghosty, an Android and iOS app that allowed users to look into private profiles without their ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Apple and Google remove 50+ apps that served malicious ads

  Apple and Google have cumulatively removed over 50 apps from their respective mobile app stores that were found serving malicious ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Apple bans app that warns Hong Kong citizens about police activity, again (Updated)

  Apple removes HKmap.live, a crowdsourced live maps app that protestors in Hong Kong used to track police movements, days ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Apple reportedly pulls app that warns Hong Kong citizens about police activity (Updated)

  Apple has approved an app that allows people in Hong Kong to keep track of protests and police activity in the city state ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• The fastest way to update (and delete) apps on iOS 13

  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Apple's revised policy for kids' apps allows devs to collect anonymized data and display ads

  Apple has revised its App Store Review Guidelines with regards to kids apps and its upcoming single sign-on feature Sign ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Apple denies favoring its own apps in App Store search results (Updated)

  A new investigation by The Wall Street Journal has revealed that the company's own mobile apps are often first in App Store ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Apple Arcade launches on September 19 at $4.99 a month

  Apple today revealed details about its upcoming gaming service, Arcade. Now we know it'll cost $4.99 for the whole family ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• TikTok is flooded by scammers promoting adult sites

  TikTok has been inundated by a slew of scammers seeking to take advantage of its quickly growing userbase – and get them ...

  • Mix

• Instagram and WhatsApp get a 'from Facebook' stamp to remind you who's boss

  To be honest, I'm kind of impressed Facebook held out this long. After buying WhatsApp and Instagram several years ago, ...

  • Napier Lopez

• YouTube is the world's top-grossing video app with $138M in user spending

  Google must be happy. YouTube is the world's top-grossing app in the photo and video software category for a second quarter ...

  • Mix

• The new iOS Photos app makes it easier to manage and edit photos

  Photos takes a few cues from Adobe's Lightroom

  • Matthew Hughes

• The App Store is coming to the Apple Watch

  WatchOS hits a major milestone

  • Matthew Hughes

• Supreme Court ruling means Apple could face lawsuits from lots of angry customers

  The United States Supreme Court ruled this week that users could sue Apple for allegedly monopolizing the App Store and driving ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Apple announces Arcade, its new game subscription service

  Apple today announced Arcade, its game subscription service that claims to span mobile, desktop and other devices. Gamers ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• This Chinese turn-based singing game looks amazing

  Meetup Music (or 音遇) is a Chinese, turn-based singing game that has been lighting-up the country's app stores. We've ...

  • Callum Booth

• Developers are our best bet to stop Apple’s App Store monopoly

  Any day now, the US Supreme Court will issue a decision in a case called Apple Inc. v. Pepper, where a group of iPhone users ...

  • Harrison McAvoy

• The best ways to move your music from Apple Music or Google Play Music to Spotify

  Spotify’s just launched in India, and I’m excited to try it out. However, I’ve been an Apple Music subscriber for over ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Apple's crackdown on screen-recording apps is a privacy win

  Apple’s iOS screen recording functionality – which was first introduced in version 11 back in 2017 – comes in handy ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• This week's Facebook-Google-Apple drama, explained

  With so much happening in the tech world, this week feels like it’s 21 days long. The highlight of the week has been the ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• A handy list of ways Facebook has tried to sneakily gather data about you

  As we learned last year, Facebook has a habit of stealthily grabbing customer data to improve its own products and services, ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• TNW's favorite apps for Windows users in 2018

  Microsoft's app store for Windows has become a fairly impressive library of software for users, and we want our readers to ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Tumblr reemerges on the App Store after controversial NSFW purge

  After a turbulent few weeks, it appears Tumblr may finally be back on track. Its app has now reappeared in the iOS App Store. ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Reddit's data hoarders are frantically trying to save Tumblr's NSFW content

  After Tumblr announced, on Monday, that it was invoking the nuclear option to expel NSFW content on the platform, the internet ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Forget Siri: Here's how to use Google Assistant on your iPhone or iPad

  It's safe to say the digital assistant wars are over. Siri, arguably, is awful, and the clear-cut favorite in the space is ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Apple acquires Shazam and announces it'll now be ad-free

  Apple has officially acquired the musical identification app, Shazam. The hardware giant has also stated that the app will ...

  • Callum Booth

• Internal Facebook note reveals clever 'psychological trick' to attract teenage users

  Always on the lookout for novel ways to attract teens, Facebook purchased viral polling app TBH last October. The app fell ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Google bans cryptocurrency mining apps from the Play Store

  All cryptocurrency miners are now banned from Google's Play store. The new ruling came with new updates to Google’s Developer ...

  • David Canellis

• This app allows you to send rejected emoji to your friends

  Declined Emoji: part 1 opens up a world of rejected emoji you never knew existed. Get ready for conversations full of inflating ...

  • Cara Curtis