Month: August 2024
Apple Cash Users Will Soon Need to Verify Their Identity to Send Over $500
The change comes as Tap to Cash arrives on iPhones with iOS 18.
The change comes as Tap to Cash arrives on iPhones with iOS 18.
NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Friday, August 23 (game #173)
Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here’s all you need to know to solve today’s game, including the spangram.
Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.
Want more word-based fun? Then check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Strands today (game #173) – hint #1 – today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… The nose knows
NYT Strands today (game #173) – hint #2 – clue words
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
DOSENEEDNEEDSSOLEMOLDMADE
NYT Strands today (game #173) – hint #3 – spangram
What is a hint for today’s spangram?
• Sniff it and see
NYT Strands today (game #173) – hint #4 – spangram position
What are two sides of the board that today’s spangram touches?
First: top, 4th column
Last: Bottom, 4th column
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands today (game #173) – the answers
(Image credit: New York Times)
The answers to today’s Strands, game #173, are…
MUSKSANDALWOODCEDARROSELEMONLAVENDERSPANGRAM: COMMONSCENTS
My rating: ModerateMy score: 2 hints
No complaints about today’s Strands, it was simply too difficult for me to solve without needing some hints. But it’s a good one in general – nicely coherent in terms of the theme clue and spangram working properly together and with six other answers that were all gettable – but not easy.
The problem, as I found, was that even when I knew what I needed to do, I couldn’t wrestle any COMMONSCENTS from the deepest regions of my brain and on to the Strands board. LEMON was obvious, and I spotted SANDALWOOD simply because of its position on the corner/side of the board, but for some reason I couldn’t think of the likes of MUSK and ROSE, even though with hindsight they are obvious. I got there in the end, though, and that’s enough for me today.
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Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Thursday 22 August, game #172)
CHOPSTIRWHIPPULSELIQUEFYGRINDPUREESPANGRAM: BLENDERSETTING
What is NYT Strands?
Strands is the NYT’s new word game, following Wordle and Connections. It’s now out of beta so is a fully fledged member of the NYT’s games stable and can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
I’ve got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you’re struggling to beat it each day.
NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Friday, August 23 (game #439)
Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here’s all you need to know to solve today’s game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need clues.
What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (game #439) – today’s words
(Image credit: New York Times)
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
TIETANFANFAWNCHECKFINISHMONITORBUFFBOASCREENCREAMBASKTERMINALCORSETDISPLAYGLOVES
NYT Connections today (game #439) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
Yellow: Digital viewing thingGreen: Showy outfit itemsBlue: ColorsPurple: Sounds like a mother tongue
Need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections today (game #439) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
YELLOW: VISUAL INTERFACEGREEN: BURLESQUE WEARBLUE: BEIGE SHADESPURPLE: LANGUAGE HOMOPHONES
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #439) – the answers
(Image credit: New York Times)
The answers to today’s Connections, game #439, are…
YELLOW: VISUAL INTERFACE DISPLAY, MONITOR, SCREEN, TERMINALGREEN: BURLESQUE WEAR BOA, CORSET, FAN, GLOVESBLUE: BEIGE SHADES BUFF, CREAM, FAWN, TANPURPLE: LANGUAGE HOMOPHONES BASK, CHECK, FINISH, TIE
My rating: HardMy score: Fail
OK, I’m done with this stupid game. That’s it, over*. This is my third failure in six days, and it’s just too hard to be fun. How could I be supposed to know that BUFF is a shade of beige? I’ve never heard that before. And frankly, I don’t care. And why is FAN a part of BURLESQUE WEAR? Do you wear a fan?
Or, on the other hand, I should hang my head and admit that my Connections game has been gone these past few days, and that it’s all my fault. The frustrating thing is that I solved yellow, the visual interfaces, after only a few seconds. And looking at the board, it shouldn’t have been beyond me to solve two more groups. But for whatever reason, it was.
(*I will be back tomorrow, of course. But I hate Connections right now.)
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Thursday, 22 August, game #438)
YELLOW: CLASSIC MOVIE THEATER EQUIPMENT PROJECTOR, REEL, SCREEN, SPEAKERGREEN: TIER DECK, FLOOR, LEVEL, STORYBLUE: NEWSPAPER NAMES GLOBE, MIRROR, POST, SUNPURPLE: PRANK VERBS EGG, MOON, STREAK, TOILET PAPER
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final one, as you’ll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It’s a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It’s playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
Quordle today – hints and answers for Friday, August 23 (game #942)
Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions.
Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now nearly 1,000 games later. It offers a genuine challenge, though, so read on if you need some Quordle hints today – or scroll down further for the answers.
Enjoy playing word games? You can also check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and NYT Strands today pages for hints and answers for those puzzles.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Quordle today (game #942) – hint #1 – Vowels
How many different vowels are in Quordle today?
• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 4*.
* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).
Quordle today (game #942) – hint #2 – repeated letters
Do any of today’s Quordle answers contain repeated letters?
• The number of Quordle answers containing a repeated letter today is 1.
Quordle today (game #942) – hint #3 – uncommon letters
Do the letters Q, Z, X or J appear in Quordle today?
• No. None of Q, Z, X or J appear among today’s Quordle answers.
Quordle today (game #942) – hint #4 – starting letters (1)
Do any of today’s Quordle puzzles start with the same letter?
• The number of today’s Quordle answers starting with the same letter is 2.
If you just want to know the answers at this stage, simply scroll down. If you’re not ready yet then here’s one more clue to make things a lot easier:
Quordle today (game #942) – hint #5 – starting letters (2)
What letters do today’s Quordle answers start with?
• L
• S
• C
• C
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
Quordle today (game #942) – the answers
(Image credit: Merriam-Webster)
The answers to today’s Quordle, game #942, are…
LAUGHSATYRCACHECLONE
Sometimes my start words – STARE, DOILY and PUNCH – make Quordle much easier than it would otherwise be. Yesterday was one of those days, and today was another: those three words gave me five letters for SATYR and CLONE, giving me a couple of simple anagrams to solve, plus four for LAUGH and CACHE; I was never in danger of failing today.
I have experimented with using two start words instead, or even one, but either strategy just leaves too much work to do. I’ll never score better than a 7 with this approach, but I also solve almost every single puzzle – and that suits my cautious nature.
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Daily Sequence today (game #942) – the answers
(Image credit: Merriam-Webster)
The answers to today’s Quordle Daily Sequence, game #942, are…
INFERSCOLDDUMPYCURSE
Quordle answers: The past 20
Quordle #941, Thursday 22 August: BEARD, PAYER, BROWN, TRUCKQuordle #940, Wednesday 21 August: ALOFT, SNUCK, LAPSE, COMICQuordle #939, Tuesday 20 August: CHIEF, SNORT, OUNCE, MILKYQuordle #938, Monday 19 August: GIVEN, STIFF, STOOL, ANTICQuordle #937, Sunday 18 August: DEPTH, JUICY, GAWKY, INLAYQuordle #936, Saturday 17 August: HUMUS, FRONT, FUNNY, DRYLYQuordle #935, Friday 16 August: BRICK, CABLE, INBOX, FLOSSQuordle #934, Thursday 15 August: STINT, TRAIL, DECAL, BRAINQuordle #933, Wednesday 14 August: TENOR, CLEFT, USHER, CREEPQuordle #932, Tuesday 13 August: LIMIT, AMBLE, ALBUM, BULLYQuordle #931, Monday 12 August: CHEER, FUNKY, TRITE, THUMPQuordle #930, Sunday 11 August: COURT, LOAMY, TOAST, OCCURQuordle #929, Saturday 10 August: MOLAR, FLIER, HEFTY, JAZZYQuordle #928, Friday 9 August: WEARY, SWILL, CUMIN, COBRAQuordle #927, Thursday 8 August: GUSTO, SPRIG, SOLID, SWOREQuordle #926, Wednesday 7 August: GONER, PEACH, SWUNG, USHERQuordle #925, Tuesday 6 August: AWFUL, BLAST, WRING, SCOLDQuordle #924, Monday 5 August: CHUCK, VILLA, JIFFY, FLAKEQuordle #923, Sunday 4 August: MUDDY, SCARF, DECAL, SURLYQuordle #922, Saturday 3 August: UNMET, EJECT, MAPLE, LUCKY
‘The Crow’ review: Repulsive and abysmal
Bill Skarsgård and FKA twigs fall hard as doomed lovers in this remake of “The Crow.” Review.
It doesn’t matter how low your expectations are for Rupert Sanders’ The Crow, because this callous and clumsy remake will still fail to exceed them. But this shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone.
Director Alex Proyas’ 1994 The Crow was a hit at the box office, but its fandom truly exploded in the following years; this was due, in part, to the electrifying performance of its late leading man Brandon Lee, who was fatally injured in the movie’s making. Three sequels followed, boasting stars like Kirsten Dunst, Iggy Pop, and Edward Furlong, but none could recapture the magic of Proyas and Lee’s collaboration. That didn’t stop folks from trying. A relaunch of The Crow has been threatened for over a decade. Now, 30 years after the first adaptation of James O’Barr’s dark and deeply personal comic books arrived on the big screen — with a game-changing soundtrack to match — The Crow returns, like the revenant at its center. But unlike poor Eric Draven, there’s no heart at the center of this grim and gruesome reboot.
The Crow‘s plot has been changed for the worse and the WTF.
Credit: Larry Horricks / Lionsgate
It‘s Bill Skarsgård and British singer/songwriter FKA twigs star as doomed lovers Eric Draven and Shelly Webster. This time around, however, they won’t be swiftly slaughtered in the first act by a vicious gang led by a nefarious and chicly goth kingpin. Instead, screenwriters Zach Baylin and William Josef Schneider construct a convoluted and yet ambiguous urban hellscape run by Roeg (a smarmy Danny Huston). This villain may look like your average wealthy and powerful white man who treats everyone like pawns in his twisted game, but also, he’s an actual demon, collecting souls to extend his life on Earth.
This change from the 1994 movie means Eric isn’t just unleashing violence on a Detroit drug ring in the name of love and vengeance. It means he’s looking to save Shelly’s soul from the grips of hell itself. And this time he is not the cackling dark clown, swaggering shirt-off and bare hips out, swinging from broken window frames and relishing the kill. A grim and pretentious opening sequence involving a hurt horse and a mucky rural landscape establishes this Eric as a country boy with vague but damning childhood trauma. Shelly can relate. She’s got a hard history too, which is briefly alluded to when the two of them meet in rehab.
FKA twigs and Bill Skarsgård can’t save The Crow.
Credit: Larry Horricks / Lionsgate
Where the first film began with the lovers as an established couple on the brink of marriage, this Crow chucks Eric and Shelly into a whirlwind romance that plays as if the screenwriters saw the trailer for American Honey. Once.
Drug-loving free spirits with wounded souls, they bond over cafeteria trays before escaping rehab to a series of inexplicable montages. The self-proclaimed “degenerates” wander into the swanky apartment of an unknown friend, allowing for a fashion show in designer clothes and lovemaking on silk sheets. Then they tumble into a day out with friends (whose are unclear) — which is odd as Shelly is on the run from Roeg.
While Proyas’ The Crow established a cast of supporting characters who showed Eric and Shelly as a part of a community, this version takes such associations for granted. Across The Crow, characters aren’t even introduced as much as they shuffle on-screen to provide a plot point, then either disappear or die. Likewise, Shelly and Eric’s lives beyond their days-old romance are illustrated via flimsy quick cuts to flashbacks. These two are less characters and more a Pinterest board for a grungy, romantic aesthetic. Thought they have a certain chemistry, Skarsgård and twigs can’t elevate the cringeworthy dialogue. The love story — which takes up the first 40 minutes of the film — is a tedious trudge to its inevitable tragedy.
Rupert Sanders’ The Crow is a familiar husk stuffed with grisly, greasy nothing.
Credit: Larry Horricks / Lionsgate
Sanders, the director behind the largely forgotten fantasy-actioner Snow White and the Huntsman and the actively underwhelming live-action remake of The Ghost in the Shell, brings a sickly green/gray palette that recalls DCEU drudgery. Gone is the high-contrast face paint of Lee’s sad clown, replaced with Skarsgård smearing tattoo ink across his eyes and high cheekbones for a look that reads more Jared Leto’s Joker than The Crow. (That’s in no small part to the barrage of trashy tattoos that litter Skarsgård’s pale skin.)
To Sanders’ credit, this palette does make the hard reds and blacks of blood and bile all the more putrid on-screen. The director seemingly relishes in the movie’s R-rating, creating an ultra-violent spectacle that is at times hard to stomach, much less watch. Eric spends the first two-thirds of the film not only horrified by the violence inflicted on his own body — which is shot, stabbed, and run over — but also mortified to cause violence, gawping in shock when he takes a life with a gunshot through the chest. But he’ll conveniently get over this in time for a finale that is overflowing with nameless goons who are ripped to pieces with a ruthless abandon.
Credit: Larry Horricks / Lionsgate
I consider myself to have a pretty high tolerance for gore and violence on-screen, as I am an avid horror-lover. But frankly, I was aghast at the graphic violence of this Crow. Part of it is that the villains — outside of Roeg — are barely established. There’s little individual flare, much less the evocative nicknames like Tin Tin, Funboy, and Skank, so these malicious minions become a row of blood-gushing dominoes to be knocked down on the way to the big bad. This kind of move might work in a sequel, where you trust in the hero and so follow him into moral gray areas readily. (See John Wick 2 through 4.) But this is not the Eric Draven that Crow fans know and love. He’s an inferior imitation that lacks the haunting charm of Lee. Despite his efforts, Skarsgård’s is more a pose than a protagonist.
In the end, 2024’s The Crow is only an echo of an echo of the original, sometimes literally repeating the 1994 film’s best lines, but in a new context that makes them more cringe than compelling. Sanders didn’t even manage to create a soundtrack that scratches at the distinctiveness or greatness of the original. Ugly, incoherent, and ultimately cynical, The Crow evokes the words of wisdom from another horror movie about resurrected corpses on a rampage: Sometimes dead is better.
The first 22 seasons of Pokémon will return to streaming
Get ready, trainers: the original Pokémon anime will soon be getting a new home. The Pokémon Company has partnered with Canadian company WildBrain to be the distributor for a single-IP free ad-supported television channel that’s all Pokémon, all the time. The deal covers the first 22 seasons of the animated tales of Ash Ketchum and his electrifying buddy Pikachu.
The FAST channel will arrive first in the US, followed by launches in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. WildBrain has existing relationships with several TV platforms, including Samsung, LG, Roku, Tubi and Pluto, but it didn’t share any specific dates or likely homes for the future Pokémon channel. The company specializes in children’s programming. It operates FAST channels for game franchises Sonic and Super Mario as well as kid-focused titles such as Teletubbies, Strawberry Shortcake and Caillou.
Fans should be pleased to have this new development from the Pokémon Company after its Pokémon TV venture was shuttered earlier this year. If you’re looking for other Pokémon content, stateside viewers should be sure to catch up on the Netflix exclusive Pokémon Journeys before the show leaves in September. You’ve also got the latest show, Pokémon Horizons, which landed on the streaming service in February.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/the-first-22-seasons-of-pokemon-will-return-to-streaming-225513118.html?src=rss
Get ready, trainers: the original Pokémon anime will soon be getting a new home. The Pokémon Company has partnered with Canadian company WildBrain to be the distributor for a single-IP free ad-supported television channel that’s all Pokémon, all the time. The deal covers the first 22 seasons of the animated tales of Ash Ketchum and his electrifying buddy Pikachu.
The FAST channel will arrive first in the US, followed by launches in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. WildBrain has existing relationships with several TV platforms, including Samsung, LG, Roku, Tubi and Pluto, but it didn’t share any specific dates or likely homes for the future Pokémon channel. The company specializes in children’s programming. It operates FAST channels for game franchises Sonic and Super Mario as well as kid-focused titles such as Teletubbies, Strawberry Shortcake and Caillou.
Fans should be pleased to have this new development from the Pokémon Company after its Pokémon TV venture was shuttered earlier this year. If you’re looking for other Pokémon content, stateside viewers should be sure to catch up on the Netflix exclusive Pokémon Journeys before the show leaves in September. You’ve also got the latest show, Pokémon Horizons, which landed on the streaming service in February.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/the-first-22-seasons-of-pokemon-will-return-to-streaming-225513118.html?src=rss
Five New Features in the iOS 18 Phone App
The Phone app doesn’t often get updated, but with iOS 18 and Apple Intelligence, it’s getting a major overhaul that includes one of the best new features in the iOS 18 software.
This guide highlights everything new with the Phone app.
Record Phone Calls (Apple Intelligence)
After placing or answering a call on an iPhone running iOS 18, you can initiate a recording that gives you an audio copy of the call.
Open the Phone app.
Make a call.
Tap on the record button in the top left corner to start a recording.
When you tap on the record button, everyone on the call is informed that the call is being recorded through an audible message. The message repeats for each person that is recording, so if two iPhone users are on a call and both record, the message will play twice.
There is no confirmation dialogue when a call is being recorded, so someone who does not want to be recorded would need to hang up the call as there is no opt out.
While the call is in progress, audio is recorded and saved to the Notes app for later access. When you open up the Notes app, you’ll see a Call Recording labeled with the date and the time with an option to tap on Play to repeat the call or to tap into the note for more information.
Transcribe and Summarize Phone Calls (Apple Intelligence)
Calls that are saved in the Notes app are automatically transcribed, so you can see a full transcription of what was said on the call. You can get to a transcription by tapping into a Call Recording note.
As you listen to the call, the transcript will update so you can read along with what’s being said.
Transcriptions have a “Summary” button so you can get a quick summary of what was said in the call, plus there is a search option for searching for key words and phrases.
Transcripts can be added to a different note, or copied, and the audio can be saved to the Files app or shared.
Search Call History
In iOS 18, Apple added a search feature for the Recents tab, which means you can now search through all of your incoming and outgoing calls and voicemails.
Open up the Phone app.
Tap on the Recents tab.
Search for the person or number you’re looking for with the search bar at the top of the interface.
You can type in phone numbers or names to see calls that have been placed, received, or missed, and contacts that have the name or phone number you’re searching for.
Along with name or phone number, you can search for the date of a call, the type of call (such as FaceTime), or use multiple search parameters. If you wanted to see all calls from Eric in June, for example, you could type in “Eric” tap the name when it comes up to set the parameter, and then add in “June” to the search bar.
There are options to “See All” calls and voicemails when conducting a search to view more results.
Swap SIM cards
If you have two SIMs on your iPhone, such as for personal and work purposes, you can swap between them using a Control Center toggle. In prior versions of iOS, you had to change numbers using the Settings app.
To swap numbers, open up Control Center, navigate to the connectivity controls, and long press on Cellular Data.
Contact Suggestions
When you start typing in a number with the Keypad in iOS 18, you’ll see a list of contacts so you can quickly get to who you want to call.
Type in the first digit or two of a number and then tap on the “More” icon to see all of your options. You can tap one from there to dial.
T9 Dialing
Related to the contact suggestion feature, you can actually search for names instead of numbers using T9 characters. If you have a contact in your phone under “Eric,” you can type in 3 for E, 7 for R, 4 for I, and 2 for C, and the contact card for Eric will pop up.
T9 dialing dates back to the days before touchscreens, allowing smartphone users to type using predictive text that associated numbers with letters. The iPhone has not supported T9 dialing until now.
Apple Intelligence Release Info
Call recording, transcribing, and summarizing are Apple Intelligence features that will be available in iOS 18.1. Recording phone calls won’t be available in the initial iOS 18 update that comes out alongside the iPhone 16 models, but it should be introduced to the public in an October update.
Using Apple Intelligence will require an iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, or an iPhone 16.
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Additional information on new features that Apple has added in iOS 18 can be found in our iOS 18 roundup.Related Roundups: iOS 18, iPadOS 18Related Forums: iOS 18, iPadOS 18This article, “Five New Features in the iOS 18 Phone App” first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums
The Phone app doesn’t often get updated, but with iOS 18 and Apple Intelligence, it’s getting a major overhaul that includes one of the best new features in the iOS 18 software.
This guide highlights everything new with the Phone app.
Record Phone Calls (Apple Intelligence)
After placing or answering a call on an iPhone running iOS 18, you can initiate a recording that gives you an audio copy of the call.
Open the Phone app.
Make a call.
Tap on the record button in the top left corner to start a recording.
When you tap on the record button, everyone on the call is informed that the call is being recorded through an audible message. The message repeats for each person that is recording, so if two iPhone users are on a call and both record, the message will play twice.
There is no confirmation dialogue when a call is being recorded, so someone who does not want to be recorded would need to hang up the call as there is no opt out.
While the call is in progress, audio is recorded and saved to the Notes app for later access. When you open up the Notes app, you’ll see a Call Recording labeled with the date and the time with an option to tap on Play to repeat the call or to tap into the note for more information.
Transcribe and Summarize Phone Calls (Apple Intelligence)
Calls that are saved in the Notes app are automatically transcribed, so you can see a full transcription of what was said on the call. You can get to a transcription by tapping into a Call Recording note.
As you listen to the call, the transcript will update so you can read along with what’s being said.
Transcriptions have a “Summary” button so you can get a quick summary of what was said in the call, plus there is a search option for searching for key words and phrases.
Transcripts can be added to a different note, or copied, and the audio can be saved to the Files app or shared.
Search Call History
In iOS 18, Apple added a search feature for the Recents tab, which means you can now search through all of your incoming and outgoing calls and voicemails.
Open up the Phone app.
Tap on the Recents tab.
Search for the person or number you’re looking for with the search bar at the top of the interface.
You can type in phone numbers or names to see calls that have been placed, received, or missed, and contacts that have the name or phone number you’re searching for.
Along with name or phone number, you can search for the date of a call, the type of call (such as FaceTime), or use multiple search parameters. If you wanted to see all calls from Eric in June, for example, you could type in “Eric” tap the name when it comes up to set the parameter, and then add in “June” to the search bar.
There are options to “See All” calls and voicemails when conducting a search to view more results.
Swap SIM cards
If you have two SIMs on your iPhone, such as for personal and work purposes, you can swap between them using a Control Center toggle. In prior versions of iOS, you had to change numbers using the Settings app.
To swap numbers, open up Control Center, navigate to the connectivity controls, and long press on Cellular Data.
Contact Suggestions
When you start typing in a number with the Keypad in iOS 18, you’ll see a list of contacts so you can quickly get to who you want to call.
Type in the first digit or two of a number and then tap on the “More” icon to see all of your options. You can tap one from there to dial.
T9 Dialing
Related to the contact suggestion feature, you can actually search for names instead of numbers using T9 characters. If you have a contact in your phone under “Eric,” you can type in 3 for E, 7 for R, 4 for I, and 2 for C, and the contact card for Eric will pop up.
T9 dialing dates back to the days before touchscreens, allowing smartphone users to type using predictive text that associated numbers with letters. The iPhone has not supported T9 dialing until now.
Apple Intelligence Release Info
Call recording, transcribing, and summarizing are Apple Intelligence features that will be available in iOS 18.1. Recording phone calls won’t be available in the initial iOS 18 update that comes out alongside the iPhone 16 models, but it should be introduced to the public in an October update.
Using Apple Intelligence will require an iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, or an iPhone 16.
Read More
Additional information on new features that Apple has added in iOS 18 can be found in our iOS 18 roundup.
This article, “Five New Features in the iOS 18 Phone App” first appeared on MacRumors.com
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Google Essentials will house all Google services in a single Windows app
If you buy a new Hewlett-Packard laptop in the next few weeks, then you’ll notice a new app on the “Start” menu called Google Essentials. On Thursday, Google announced that the new app will bundle some of its core services like Google Photos, Google Drive and Google Messages.
The Google Essentials app will not only house shortcuts to its most used services but it will also centralize your Google account information and saved materials such as documents, photos and saved games for titles from Google Play Games. Eligible subscribers will also receive a two month trial of Google One cloud storage with 100GB.
The blog posts says that Google Essentials will only be available on Windows PCs starting with new Hewlett-Packard (HP) laptops including models like the Spectre, Envy, Pavilion, OMEN and Victus. Google says it plans to make the Essentials app available on more Windows PC brands in the future.
The concept of a bundled Google services app sounds very similar to the old Windows Live Essentials. The collection of Microsoft applications allowed Windows users a quicker way to access apps like Mail, Movie Maker, Messenger and Writer. An archived version of the Windows Live Essentials installer is available on the Internet Archive.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/apps/google-essentials-will-house-all-google-services-in-a-single-windows-app-223824942.html?src=rss
If you buy a new Hewlett-Packard laptop in the next few weeks, then you’ll notice a new app on the “Start” menu called Google Essentials. On Thursday, Google announced that the new app will bundle some of its core services like Google Photos, Google Drive and Google Messages.
The Google Essentials app will not only house shortcuts to its most used services but it will also centralize your Google account information and saved materials such as documents, photos and saved games for titles from Google Play Games. Eligible subscribers will also receive a two month trial of Google One cloud storage with 100GB.
The blog posts says that Google Essentials will only be available on Windows PCs starting with new Hewlett-Packard (HP) laptops including models like the Spectre, Envy, Pavilion, OMEN and Victus. Google says it plans to make the Essentials app available on more Windows PC brands in the future.
The concept of a bundled Google services app sounds very similar to the old Windows Live Essentials. The collection of Microsoft applications allowed Windows users a quicker way to access apps like Mail, Movie Maker, Messenger and Writer. An archived version of the Windows Live Essentials installer is available on the Internet Archive.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/apps/google-essentials-will-house-all-google-services-in-a-single-windows-app-223824942.html?src=rss
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