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  • Google Chrome's latest update on iOS brings improved security, the Discover feed and more

    10 days ago - By TechCrunch

    As part of a broader update to its Chrome web browser, Google announced today a handful new features coming to the latest build of Chrome on iOS. Among the key additions, the Chrome app is gaining access to Google's Enhanced Safe Browsing feature which proactively warns you about dangerous web pages. Other updates include user interface changes, the ability to set Google's password manager as the autofill provider, an updated language identification model, and more.
    Some of these changes have been available on Android and desktop versions of Chrome for months or even years but are now...
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  • IPads will soon lose the ability to serve as smart home hubs

    IPads will soon lose the ability to serve as smart home hubs

    10 days ago - By TechRadar

    Following the launch of iOS 16 later this fall, you will no longer be able to use an iPad as a smart home hub to control HomeKit devices. The news comes by way of iOS developer and MacRumors writer Steve Moser who dug through the code of iOS 16 Beta 2. He posted his findings on a long Twitter thread that goes through some of the other changes coming to Apple devices.
    iOS 16 changes
    MacRumors reports that, upon updating an iPad to iOS 16, a new message will appear in the Home app that reads "A home hub is required to take advantage of features like receiving accessory notification and...
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  • Chrome on iOS will be able to autofill your saved passwords on any app

    Chrome on iOS will be able to autofill your saved passwords on any app

    10 days ago - By Engadget

    If you store all your passwords on Chrome and use an iPhone, signing into your various accounts is about to get easier. The latest release of the browser for iOS will bring the ability for you to set Chrome as your Autofill provider. It'll also add new "enhanced safe browsing" and Chrome Actions to the app on iPhones and iPads. Many of this features are already available in the Android edition of Chrome, like the Password Manager, which uses data you've elected to store in the browser to sign into apps on your phone. Enhanced Safe Browsing, when activated on your iPhone or iPad, will check...
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