Apple Music Is Getting More Social With Lyrics Sharing

How do you find out about songs or bands you’ve never heard of before? There are many ways, such as hearing it used as background music in a TV show or movie, hearing it on radio, or being recommended by a friend. Social media can also be a good way about finding and discovering new tunes.That being said, it seems that Apple Music is about to get a lot more […]

Instagram’s Algorithms Will No Longer Promote Reels With TikTok’s Watermark

As some of you might have heard or noticed by now, Instagram has launched its own version of TikTok called Reels. However, despite the feature being there, there are some users who still prefer to record their videos using TikTok and then upload to both platforms at once, which makes sense as far as social media reach is concerned.However, it seems that Instagram isn’t too thrilled at users who might […]

Instagram Could Be Looking To Borrow A TikTok Feature

For those who use Instagram and have browsed Stories, you know that moving from one Story to the other is basically tapping to the left or the right of your display. TikTok, on the other hand, employs a different method of navigation where users scroll down to move from one TikTok video to another.Now it seems that Instagram might be interested in borrowing that feature from TikTok. This is according […]

Instagram Launches New Feature To Better Protect Users Against Account Takeovers

More often than not, we come across many instances of people having their Instagram accounts hacked and taken over and have its contents deleted. Since we don’t always keep backups of the photos we share on Instagram, this can be a devastating loss for some who might have amassed a huge following and a ton of posts.However, the good news is that Instagram seems to have introduced a new feature […]

Apparently Instagram Wants You To Stop Posting Feeds Onto Stories

One of the features of Instagram’s Stories is the ability to repost Stories belonging to others (assuming they aren’t private accounts), and also posts from your feed. However, it seems that maybe Instagram is thinking that posting from your feed is no longer such a good idea and are now thinking about removing the feature.This is according to Matt Navarra who discovered a notification that Instagram is showing to some […]

Instagram Scams Have Risen More Than 50% Since The Pandemic

The pandemic has changed the way we live our lives. It has forced many of us to stay at home to work or study, it has changed our shopping habits where we’re starting to turn more towards online shopping for household necessities and food, and it has also seen us spend more time on our phones as we look for new venues of entertainment.So much so that it appears that […]

Telegram Will Soon Allow Users To Import Chats From Other Messaging Apps

WhatsApp is currently facing an exodus of users where after they announced changes to their privacy policy, many started to seek out alternatives. Telegram has long been one of those alternatives, but the privacy changes to WhatsApp only served to boost its popularity amongst users.That being said, what about all your old chats? It would be a shame if some of those chats were deleted, but the good news is […]

WhatsApp’s Privacy Policy Change Could Have Lost Them Millions Of Users

Earlier this month, WhatsApp announced some changes that they will be making to their privacy policy. These changes basically state that data from WhatsApp will be shared with Facebook, and it didn’t really give users a choice – either they accepted it or they would need to find a new messaging platform.Now according to new reports, it seems that the company’s decision to make changes to their privacy policy could […]

Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers Are Being Sold Through A Telegram Bot

If you ever associated your phone number with your Facebook account in the past couple of years, then you might want to take note that there is a chance your phone number could be shopped around online. This is according to a report from Motherboard in which they are reporting that a Telegram bot is selling access to a database containing these phone numbers.Speaking to Motherboard, security researcher Alon Gal […]

Telegram Sees 25 Million New Users In The Last 72 Hours

With WhatsApp announcing that they will soon start sharing data with Facebook, this has led to a bit of a panic where people are worried about what kind of data will be shared, and what it means for privacy. So much so that they have started to flock to other more privacy-based apps like Signal and Telegram.In fact, according to a tweet by the official Telegram account, the company is […]

Instagram Testing Out Revamped Stories Design For Desktop

Instagram has been designed as a mobile app and as such, a lot of the features are more optimized for smartphones. While you can browse Instagram on your computer, its UI feels more like a larger version of the mobile app, which is less than ideal. However, Instagram is taking steps to change that.In fact, it seems that Instagram has revamped the design of its Stories feature for the desktop, […]

Telegram Will Start Monetizing Itself In 2021

For the longest time ever since it launched, Telegram has remained free to use. The app boasts about 500 million users to date, which means that it has a very large platform should they choose to monetize it, and it looks like they will finally be doing that and it will be coming in the form of ads.No, before you start worrying about ads showing up in your chats, that’s […]

The New Instagram Lite App Only Comes In At 2MB

Not all countries around the world have access to fast and stable internet, this is why some companies have developed “lite” versions of their apps that have a smaller footprint to appeal to users living in such regions. Now it looks like Instagram is back with its new “lite” app that weighs in at an impressive 2MB.If you’re wondering why this sounds familiar, it is because it was earlier this […]

Instagram Now Supports Apple’s ProRAW

One of the new features that Apple introduced with its latest iPhones is a new “format” called ProRAW, although to be fair, it’s not really a new format, but rather it is based on the RAW image format. Some had initially wondered about it, and whether or not it would only usable between iOS and Mac devices, but it turns out that won’t be the case.According to a tweet by […]

Facebook Messenger, Instagram Functionality Limited In Europe

If you live in Europe and you use Facebook messaging and social media platforms like Messenger or Instagram, you might have noticed that you are seeing a message about how those apps are now having some limited functionality. If you do, you’re not alone because it seems that this is applied to all users in Europe.This doesn’t have to do with any technical issues, but rather it seems to have […]

The FTC Wants To Break Up Facebook, WhatsApp, And Instagram

It is no secret that Facebook is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, social media platform at the moment. Facebook plays home to a billion users, and it also owns other popular platforms like WhatsApp and Instagram. Now it seems that the FTC is feeling that maybe Facebook has too much of a monopoly on social media, and wants to break them up.Together with 46 other states, the […]

Facebook Messenger And Instagram Get Disappearing Messages

It used to be that messages you sent were pretty much permanent, but the trend we’re seeing in the past few years are messages that can be unsent or sent temporarily before they self-destruct. For those who use Instagram or Facebook Messenger, you’ll be pleased to learn that those features are now available for you.While unsending messages on Messenger and Instagram aren’t new, Facebook is now introducing the ability for […]