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Bright gradient background in warm yellow, orange, red, and pink tones with a bold white Instagram Reels icon centered, featuring a rounded square frame, top film-strip detail, and play button symbol in the middle.

What Instagram Reels is and how to start using it

Music, captions, and templates on Reels make it easy to…

Three smartphone screens on a pink‑to‑purple gradient background show an Instagram Live notification on a lock screen, the Instagram home feed with a “Live” badge on a Story, and a four‑panel Instagram Live room with multiple participants on video.

Instagram Live basics every creator should know

For creators and brands, Instagram Live is a low‑friction way…

Circular Instagram profile photos line the bottom of the image against a dark blurred background, each with a white speech bubble style Instagram Notes bubble above it showing simple content: a sun emoji on the left, “Listening now” with a partially visible song title in the center, and a heart hands emoji on the right, while the faces in the profile photos are obscured for privacy.

Instagram Notes: what it is, who sees it, and how to share one

Sitting quietly above your chats, Notes gives you a low…

A person holds a smartphone over a table while using an ID card scanning app to capture a Pennsylvania identification card, with the physical ID blurred and another ID card lying slightly out of focus in the background.

Grab the iScanner app lifetime subscription for under $40 right now

Scan documents, IDs, receipts, and notes, then annotate, sign, and…

Three smartphone screens display Instagram-style stories decorated with colorful stickers. The left screen shows a person in a green costume with a yellow flower headpiece, their face covered by cartoon eyes and a mustache sticker, alongside a comic-style “POW” bubble. The center screen features a group at a party, with playful stickers including a heart with a bandage, a hand holding tiny characters, and the word “FRIDAY” in bold stylized text. The right screen shows two people holding hands outdoors, enhanced with stickers of fist bumps, a pixelated heart, and a yellow heart with expressive eyes and “3

Instagram stickers are tiny tools with outsized impact

Stickers on Instagram aren’t just cute—they’re built to make your…

Close-up of an iPhone’s bottom edge showing the Comet browser app icon next to another icon on the dock, with a subtle space-themed wallpaper and a “Search” field visible above.

Perplexity Comet AI browser launches on iOS this March

Perplexity is finally shipping its AI‑first Comet browser to iPhone…

Promotional WhatsApp graphic showing the new “Group Message History” feature: on the left, a phone screen with an “Add members” interface and a bottom sheet labeled “Send messages” offering options to share the last 100, 75, 50, or 25 messages with a highlighted “Last 25” choice and a caption bubble reading “Control how much history to send”; in the center, the WhatsApp logo above large text “Group Message History” and the tagline “A private way to get the team up to speed”; on the right, another phone screen showing a Thunder Soccer Parents group chat where a new member has been added, a banner indicates “Message history sent by Dani” above the conversation, and a green caption bubble says “Keep the conversation going in a private way.”

WhatsApp’s Group Message History fixes the pain of joining active chats

Group Message History is rolling out across Android, iOS and…

A vertical Snapchat “My Subscription” screen promoting creator benefits is centered on a bright yellow 16:9 background, showing blurred creator imagery at the top and white text highlighting perks like direct snaps, private story access, and priority story replies.

Snapchat Creator Subscriptions launch with exclusive content and no ads

Snapchat is rolling out Creator Subscriptions so Snap Stars can…

A dark Opera browser promo image showing a laptop screen with the “Web Rewind” experience: a retro cassette‑style logo labeled “WEB Rewind – an interactive journey through 30 years of the web,” centered against a black space‑like background with circular orbits, the Opera logo in the top left, and a large orange pixelated cursor pointing to the screen.

Opera browser’s 30th birthday comes with an internet time machine

Opera just turned 30, and instead of a quiet party,…

Three Apple devices show the same video podcast episode in Apple Podcasts: an iPhone on the left with the episode playing in portrait view with playback controls and show artwork, an iPad in the center displaying a close‑up of the host on a purple curtain set, and another iPhone on the right in landscape view showing the full studio scene with two people seated and on‑screen video controls.

Apple Podcasts adds full video episodes for creators and fans

Soon you’ll be able to fire up Apple Podcasts and…

App Store screenshot of ExpressVPN, showing the app details with a 4.5-star rating. The image displays three preview panels highlighting features: 160 lightning-fast VPN locations, one subscription for all devices, and customer support. The app icon is red and white, and the screenshot is set against a purple and dark blue background, depicting a smartphone interface.

ExpressVPN’s long‑term VPN plans get a massive 81 percent price cut

If high VPN prices kept you away from ExpressVPN, this…

A side‑by‑side image of three iPhones shows the new WhatsApp Business Liquid Glass interface on iOS 26, with the left phone in dark mode displaying a chats list over a black translucent background and a floating tab bar, the middle phone in light mode showing the same chats list with soft white glass‑like panels and rounded filter chips, and the right phone opened to a single chat with a beige patterned wallpaper, translucent header, and semi‑transparent iOS keyboard at the bottom.

Liquid Glass UI rolls out to WhatsApp Business for iPhone users

WhatsApp is finally giving its Business app on iPhone a…