Radu Oncescu

💠OpenAI is testing on ChatGPT’s Android a new “Liquid Glass”-like design for chat buttons.

📲 Instagram now brings up 4 of your DM contacts when you’ll tap & hold the “Share” icon.

📲YouTube is rolling out on iOS a new, more compact UI for channel videos with focus on buttons.

🧵Threads is testing on iOS a new, simplified UI for Threads Search.

📲Meta is also testing the ability to quickly create a feed based on a topic or search.

📲 As first reported by @mattnavarra.com , Meta is also launching the Meta AI apps in the EU and UK.

📈YouTube is now showcasing “Trending Songs” in the Shorts feed.

📲YouTube is testing on Android (ß) a new UI for the Shorts Editor.

• This new interface is similar to the ones available on Instagram, Instagram Edits, CapCut, TikTok or YouTube Create.

• With the exception of stickers, it shows in one all the creatives (text, music) added to a short.

💙Meta now allows Facebook Messenger users to call Meta AI.

💙Meta now allows Facebook Messenger users to call Meta AI.

💚WhatsApp is soft launching on iOS the ability to set a disappearing status.

📲Instagram now promoted Instagram Edits and the content created by users with the app in the “Notification” section with a new “Open Edits” button.

🧵 Threads added a new editing feature for longer text atttachments, “Markup”.

📲Facebook is showcasing reels edited / made with Instagram Edits as well.

📲Instagram now displays a map on each user’s Instagram DM profile page.

📲Instagram will now display all content with tagged locations on Instagram Maps (posts, Reels and stories).

📲Instagram integrated the “Your story” sharing button in a new “Also share on” section in the Reels composer.

🥳YouTube is now giving some previously terminated creators the opportunity to rejoin YouTube by requesting a new channel through YouTube Studio Desktop.

✂️Meta is working on four new widgets for Instagram Edits’s iOS app.

💠xAI added a new “Relationship Streak” feature for Ani on Grok AI’s iOS app.

Talk for 7 days with Ani and you’ll unlock a new outfit.

📲LinkedIn added a new “Contributors” feature for projects / job experiences.

📲TikTok is testing on iOS the ability to follow established accounts from the “Comments” section as well.

The platform also shows a “Followed by…” tagline under the username.

📲Instagram is widely rolling out the option to quickly add a song on a clip edited with Instagram Edits, “Use on Edits”.

📲 Instagram is testing on iOS new content filters for reels, “See too often” / “Not too often”.

🧵Threads is testing on iOS a new “Character count” feature.

🎨Meta added a new chat theme for Facebook Messenger and Instagram DMs, “Tron:Ares”.

🔴 TikTok added a new video quality setting for TikTok Live Videos, “1080p (HD)”.

📲X is widely testing a new UI for the “Video” section:

• A new design for buttons.
• A “YouTube”-like way to add a comment while watching the video.
• A new “Go to post” button in the options menu.

✨Instagram and @mosseri is working on something new, possibly a new “Stories” experience.

💠Meta changed the icon for Meta AI apps to “Dark Mode” only

📲 Instagram added on iOS a new shortcut for Instagram Edits under the “Create / +” button.