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  • Google News app on tablets to get a Material You redesign

    Google News app on tablets to get a Material You redesign

    Material You has been the de facto design language for Android since its unveiling back in 2021. Since then, Google has been hard at work updating all their apps to fit the new design, including those used in tablets, but there was one app that was partly overlooked, Google News.
    Back in May, with Google News version 3.53, the Material You design philosophy began to be implemented by making the bottom navigation bar taller, giving it a slight hue, and adding a pill-shaped indicator for whatever tab you’re now viewing. This revamp was still in the early stages at the time, as the Material You features did not yet adhere to the Android theme colors.
    However, now with version 5.71, the story begins to change. This version brings that same redesign of the Google News app in tablet view. As before, a navigation rail with Material Design 3 (MD3) components was added, even if only available in landscape orientation.
    The new look was documented with screenshots via the Google News Telegram group, as seen below:
    In this redesign, the page content is now separated from the header and navigation rail by staying enclosed in its own section with rounded corners on top. The shape of the search bar was also modified slightly, but the navigation rail is visible on tablets and phones if used in landscape orientation.
    The navigation rail seems to be a common theme for Google when it comes to implementing Material You. It has already used a similar design in Google TV and Google Drive, and if the trend continues it is sure to make its way into other Google apps as well.
    I happen to like the navigation rail, as I believe it makes the design cleaner and less cluttered. The ability to expand it to view more content per category highlights its flexibility and adaptability to any app it may get implemented on.
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  • LinkedIn, Reddit, Google News and other apps caught spying on iPhone users’ clipboards

    LinkedIn, Reddit, Google News and other apps caught spying on iPhone users’ clipboards

    Last month, we told you that a new feature found in the iOS 14 beta detects when a third party app is spying on your iPhone’s clipboard. The latter is the place where data is temporarily stored while being copied from one app to another. Those running the iOS 14 beta preview noticed that they were receiving notifications that apps like TikTok and even AccuWeather were sniffing around an iPhone user’s clipboard and could copy things like PIN numbers, social security numbers and more. Some users received this notification every time they typed a punctuation mark or tapped the space bar on their iPhone’s QWERTY keyboard.

    Last week, Don Morton, a developer using the iOS 14 beta, was seeing a notification that Microsoft’s networking app LinkedIn was copying the content of his clipboard after every keystroke. When ZDNet got in touch with LinkedIn, a spokesperson said that this was all part of a bug. LinkedIn engineering VP Erran Berger said, “We don’t store or transmit the clipboard contents.” TikTok claimed that it appeared as though it was spying on iPhone clipboard data because of an anti-spam “fraud detection mechanism.” The popular short-form video app said that it never copied any content from anyone’s iPhone but it removed the mechanism anyway.

    Morton made a list of apps that iOS 14 is catching red-handed stealing clipboard data. The list includes apps that copied clipboard data after each keystroke and others that copied the data once the app was opened. The former list includes three names: TikTok, LinkedIn, and Reddit. We’ve already mentioned the responses from TikTok and LinkedIn. Reddit said that it is going to disseminate a software update to eliminate code that caused it to copy content from an iPhone user’s clipboard. The software update is expected to be pushed out on July 14th.

    Some password manager apps will automatically clear your clipboard after a certain period of time has passed. The 1Password app has a feature that when toggled on, will automatically clear any field copied from the app to the clipboard in 90 seconds. Some say that they will ask Apple to make access to the clipboard permission that users must agree to give to an app.

    In Morton’s blog post he wrote that this is a real problem. He said, “This is a problem. However, the real problem and thing that scares me is the fact that ANY app has the ability to access the clipboard without permission. I could easily see “phishing apps” starting to pop up (if they are not already) with the sole intention to scrape as much clipboard data as possible. To me, this is just as bad or even more worrying than the companies that have already been called out for it. For the most part, the companies that have been getting called out have a motive to be “good.” I’m just starting to think about companies or apps that have no intention of being good.”

    Once the notifications start appearing for everyone when the final version of iOS 14 drops, we will certainly have a better idea about how widespread this problem is.