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Polar’s 6.0.18 firmware, released September 30, adds seven-day trend graphs, a remappable Custom button, on-watch sport settings and an optional 80% battery charge limit.
The best apps for listening to music offline, compared by download limits, audio quality, the 30 day rule and price, including free options that need no subscription.
Free music with no ads does exist, legally: library apps, Amazon Prime and local players. Here is every option, plus what it costs to remove ads from Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music.
Samsung’s One UI 9 Watch beta has now reached the Galaxy Watch 8, Watch 7 and Watch 6 lines in about two weeks. Here is what the Wear OS 7 update adds and how to enroll.
Singapore’s government has launched FirstDate, a Singpass-verified matchmaking service that covers the cost of your first date. It runs on a Nobel-winning algorithm, gives you 72 hours to decide, and for now only public servants aged 21 to 35 can join.
Simon Leviev says his app Safe Love will protect women from romance fraud. The Online Dating and Discovery Association has written to Apple and Google asking them to refuse to list any dating app he fronts. The interesting part is that neither store has a rule built for this question.
Eye Tracking turns your gaze into a pointer and Dwell Control turns a pause into a tap. It runs entirely on device, works on any iPhone 12 or newer, and most people have never opened the menu it lives in.
A Shortcuts automation doing the rounds on X photographs whoever plugs in your stolen iPhone and emails you their location. The setup genuinely works. The part nobody mentions is what it does to your camera roll the other 364 days of the year.
Reddit threads are filling with reports of unresponsive touchscreens and stuttery animations after the iOS 27 update. Most of it is background indexing that clears within two days, but not all of it. Here is how to tell the two apart, what actually helps, and why the next numbered update will not be the one that fixes it.
A federal health advisory sets daily screen time limits by age, from no screens before 18 months to two hours for teenagers. National estimates say adolescents average seven to nine. Here is what the research on “digital dementia” does and does not show.