YouTube settings page on Android shows related icons to give more context and also experiment with a new feature called "Shorts smart Downloads" which do what the name says.

Google Messages added a new floating Gemini short cut which can trigger chat with Gemini quickly.

Previously, only the Gemini chat was available without any short cuts.

WhatsApp is Down: User reports indicate issues with sending stickers, sending media, posting statuses and so on.

It's not just you!

YouTube announced some new premium features and experimental features (Already posted the demo here):

1. Jump ahead: Skip to the good part.
2. PIP for YouTube Shorts.

Arc is widely rolling out the Live Calendars for Windows.

This feature will give you a quick join button and countdown timer when you pin the Google calendar.

Along with this they also did some bug fixes

#Instagram added a new professional dashboard tool called "Collaboration".

Can be turned on by creators or professional accounts which will display an "Open to collaboration" tag in the profile view.

Threads celebrating it's 1st birthday with new icon for everyone. Users can claim the icon by pressing the 🎂 icon in their profile page and scratch.

I don't usually post about mobile phones but this looks amazing...

CMF by Nothing teasing a new phone called CMF Phone 1 and here is what we know about it so far:

- 6.67" Super AMOLED display
- 16GB RAM
- 50 MP camera
- 5000mAh battery
- Fingerprint On Display

Nothing also shipping screw drivers with this phone which appears to be gonna let users simply remove the back panels and replace the batteries if they want.

Also there is a visual dial which is teasing a completely new range of accessories.

For those who don't know CMF basically it used to be Nothings most budget friendly product line up so, it should be a midrange phone.

#WhatsApp seemingly testing some new Avatar stickers with text punch lines.

This image is generated using Google's new experimental AI tool called GENTYPE powered with Imagen 2 which will create custom alphabets based on text prompts.

Google testing a text prompt base image editing feature inside their experimenter tool ImageFx.

#Google experimenting with a new AI powered tool called "Code Transformation" which can clean, fix, create documentation and more to a given code.

Source: Https://t.me/appdate_lk

#Google is testing a new AI tool "Food Mood" that can generate new food recipes by combining two cuisines into one.

This will give a detailed recipe guide along with ingredients and also create a generated image of the expected dish.

Source: https://news.1rj.ru/str/appdate_lk

#WhatsApp testing out a new zoom level indicator for the inbuilt camera.

This new indicator will show the level of zoom when user is trying to change the zoom level.

Tried Notion AI again after a while and was surprised to see how good it is with the personalized answers.

It can basically create a chatting experience with all your Notion notes (database) which is quite good at answering based on your own knowledge base.

Their T&C says user data will not be used to train models as every other AI 😅

Instagram is widely rolling out the story layers feature for Android.

Source: http://bit.ly/AppdateWAChannel

Changes and Features spotted in WhatsApp for June 2024.

- Reply with video message
- WhatsApp calls getting better
- Lite and more intuitive stickers

And more: https://www.appdate.lk/apps/changes-and-features-spotted-in-whatsapp-june-2024/

Google's advanced protection is now available with passkeys for enrolled users.

- Prevent unauthorized logins.
- Prevent harmful downloads.
- Prevent harmful permissions for apps and etc.

Enroll: https://g.co/advancedprotection

Potential data breach has been reported on Airport & Aviation Services Sri Lanka.

Data posted at the Airport & Aviation Services:
- 7,083 records
- IDs, login IDs, passenger details, and passport numbers have been posted

Source: Falcon Feed | Appdate.lk

Arc for Windows got a new update and here are some of my favorite features:

- Arc Max - AI for Arc
- Tidy Tabs - Automatically rearrange and group tabs if you kept open more than 6 tabs
- Ask on Page - AI will answer your questions about an opened page.

and some more quality updates.

Google testing Gemini integration for Google Drive PDF viewer.

This will basically let you chat with PDFs from your drive.