Microsoft has announced that all new Microsoft accounts will be “passwordless by default” to secure them against password attacks such as phishing, brute force, and credential stuffing. The announcement comes after the company started rolling out updated sign-in and sign-up user experience (UX) flows for web and mobile apps in March, optimized for passwordless and … Read more
Scanning documents with your phone just got a little smoother. According to Android Authority, Google has quietly rolled out an update to its document scanner that enhances images automatically—no extra steps are required. This new behavior is part of an update to the MLKit document scanner used across several Google apps, including Drive, Files by … Read more
Samsung and GSMA have entered into a collaborative endeavour to improve connectivity on Samsung Galaxy-branded handsets. The company’s phones running on Android 15 with One UI 7 skin on top will now come with the voice over LTE (VoLTE) feature enabled by default in supported regions. Currently, users are required to manually enable VoLTE connectivity … Read more
On Windows 11, when you download a document or another type of file, by default, it’s stored in the “Downloads” folder located in the home folder for that specific account. However, you can always change the default location of the folder to another path or a different drive. Although it usually makes sense to download … Read more
The price that you see on an Airbnb listing will finally be the price that you actually pay. On Monday, the rental app announced that it will display the full price of a stay, including fees and taxes (in most locations), by default from the start of listings worldwide. The shift in pricing policy comes … Read more
Microsoft announced it will begin disabling all ActiveX controls in Windows versions of Microsoft 365 and Office 2024 applications later this month. Introduced almost three decades ago, in 1996, ActiveX is a legacy software framework enabling developers to create interactive objects embedded in Office documents. After this change rolls out, ActiveX will be blocked entirely … Read more
Don’t like the iPhone’s calling and messaging apps? You can now change them to WhatsApp. After installing the latest WhatsApp update for iOS (version 25.8.74), go to Settings > Apps > Default Apps > Calling/Messaging and pick WhatsApp from the available options. (Credit: PCMag/Apple) Once you make these changes, your iPhone will automatically use WhatsApp … Read more
WhatsApp has rolled out a new update for its iOS app which lets users set it as the default app for calls and messages. The feature was initially spotted in a beta version of the app but has since been rolled out widely and is available to all WhatsApp for iOS users. The release of this feature … Read more
Table of Contents Table of Contents How to default to WhatsApp on iPhone Note it’s listed in beta What’s next? iPhone users can now get setup so that WhatsApp is their default messaging and calling app. If your iPhone is updated to iOS 18.2 then the functionality is already available for you right now. This … Read more
WhatsApp users on iPhones can now set the app as their default choice for messaging and calls, following the latest update to version 25.8.74. The change, first noted by WABetaInfo, allows the Meta-owned messaging service to appear in the default app selection menu within iOS settings, reported MacRumors. Reportedly, Apple had introduced the ability to … Read more