Tag: Computers

While I never expect Connections to be perfectly easy, today’s puzzle got my goat more than once. Was it supposed to be a company or a nature reserve? If you’re currently playing and stuck with the same questions, this is the one for you. Keep reading as we talk about what exactly the answer for NYT Connections today is, along with some subtle hints to guide you along the way. So, without further ado, let’s jump right in.

Hint for Today’s Connections Themes

If you want to learn more about what today’s categories are based on but not really, then check out these subtle hints first.

• Yellow Category – Burst into flames
• Green Category – Knowledge you obtain from others
• Blue Category – umm…I’d just say Valley
• Purple Category – The powerhouse

Additional Hint: Don’t think about computing companies and gadgets. Move on.

We wish we could go into any more detail for you, but these hints are the best we can do. However, they are closely related to the actual categories, so think long and hard before you scroll below. After all, it’s quite easy to confuse one thing for another, right?

Spoiler Warning #1: While this section included hints for the categories, the next section spells them out for you. It will spoil the categories for today’s Connections puzzle, so proceed at your own risk.

Today’s Connections Category Names

If you are tired of us beating around the bush, here are the themes for today’s categories for the NYT Connections game.

• Yellow – IGNITE
• Green – INFORMATION
• Blue – SMALL WOODED AREA
• Purple – THINGS WITH CORES

At this point, you might have already clicked on some of the answers. The yellow and green categories are by far the easiest to get in today’s puzzle. However, even though purple is supposed to be the hardest, some might have more trouble with the blue category instead. If you’re still unable to figure out the answer, scroll down and check out the same.

Spoiler Warning #2: The next section includes the answer for today’s puzzle, and you will find all 16 words in their exact categories. So, proceed with caution if you don’t wish to be spoiled.

Connections Answer for November 2

Have you finally, given up and are ready for the answer? The answer to November 2 Connections is!

• IGNITE – Burn, Kindle, Light, Torch
• INFORMATION – Data, Info, Intel, News
• SMALL WOODED AREA – Dell, Glen, Hollow, Valley
• THINGS WITH CORES – Apple, Computer, Planet, Reactor

As you can see yourself, today’s answer was incredibly confusing. Ignite and Information were easy enough to solve as Data and News go quite well together. And I didn’t even need to think much before locking in those groups. I did take the computing companies and gadgets route, bundling Intel, Apple, Dell, and other words together. However, I quickly corrected course after finding intel categorized under the “Information” group.

My troubles came with today’s blue and purple categories. First, I paired up Apple, Glen, Dell, and Computer together. I quickly lost that chance when I realized it wasn’t that kind of Apple. Nonetheless, I made a little use of the brain, and I remembered that everything has a center. After almost 15 minutes of suffering, I could guess the purple Connections answer for today (well, not without luck).

So yeah, these are the answers for NYT Connections for today. If you stumbled here by mistake, then it is quite easy to learn how to play NYT’s Connections game. Once you are done, come back here if you still cannot find the answers. How was your experience solving this word puzzle today? Where did you get stuck, if you did? Let us know in the comments below.

In a recent announcement at its developer conference for the Chinese market, Vivo introduced OriginOS 4, the latest operating system update for its devices, powered by Android 14. Following last month’s launch of Funtouch OS 14 in India for both Vivo and iQOO devices, this unveiling promises exciting features and enhancements.

Let’s delve into the key features of OriginOS 4, providing an in-depth look at what users can expect from this update.

Performance and Improvements: OriginOS 4

One of the standout features of OriginOS 4 is the introduction of a virtual graphics card function, which significantly reduces waiting times when opening and closing apps. This translates into a remarkable 36% improvement in application response speed. Accompanied by a 70% boost in display frame rate stability. The result? Smoother and faster app interactions that enhance the overall user experience.

The virtual graphics card doesn’t stop there; it also brings ray tracing, frame insertion, and super-resolution technologies into play. These additions make graphics on your device more realistic, elevating the quality of visuals, from skin textures to reflections.

To further enhance the system’s efficiency, OriginOS 4 undergoes lightweight reconstruction, cutting down on background processes by 20%. This, in turn, leads to reduced power consumption, extending your device’s standby time by an impressive 15%. With OriginOS 4, you can enjoy up to 14 days of standby use without needing to recharge.

Additionally, a separate computing space is dedicated to music playback to ensure that enjoying your favorite tunes doesn’t drain the main system’s resources. You can now indulge in uninterrupted music playback for up to 105 hours.

Optimized Scheduling: Unfair Scheduling 2.0 plays a crucial role in managing CPU power and resources more effectively, making the phone’s response to complex scenarios more agile and responsive. Memory Efficiency is also given a boost with Memory fusion 4.0. Maximizing memory usage for improved app startup and background operation.

When it comes to user-friendliness, OriginOS 4 proudly carries a certification for its user-friendly design, guaranteeing an excellent user experience.

Customization on OriginOS 4

Also, Vivo understands that personalization is key to a satisfying user experience. OriginOS 4 offers a range of customization options:

• Visual Enhancement: With over 2,000 redesigned icons, the focus is on improving visual comfort without compromising recognition.
• Unique Font: Vivo Sans, a customized font, ensures clear text presentation at various font sizes.
• UI Interaction: Real-time blurring effects, contextual wallpaper, and lock screen customization offer a more personalized and visually appealing interface.

Connectivity and Other Features

Additionally, OriginOS 4 brings a plethora of features designed to make your daily life more convenient and efficient:

• Meeting Assistant: The new meeting assistant introduces real-time sound-to-text transcription, making it easier to access meeting points and saving minutes to Atomic Notes for future viewing and editing.
• Super Power-Saving Mode: Even when your battery is at a mere 1%, the super power-saving mode can extend standby time for up to 3 hours or enable a 15-minute call, ensuring that you’re never caught off guard by a dead battery.
• Car Connectivity: Integration with vivo Intelligent Vehicle 4.0 enhances car connectivity, simplifying navigation, parking, and other in-car tasks.
• Blue Heart Jr. V: The global intelligent assistance, Blue Heart Jr. V, offers multiple interaction modes, including AI copywriting, drag-and-drop functionalities, mapping, chatting, and more.
• AI Offline Translation: OriginOS 4 even provides an AI offline translation feature, ensuring seamless communication even in areas with limited or no network connectivity.
• Family Health: The family health component intuitively displays the health status of family members. Allowing you to keep track of your loved ones’ well-being.

Availability and Rollout

In addition, Vivo’s OriginOS 4 will come pre-installed on the upcoming Vivo X100 series and iQOO 12, set to release this month. If you own other Vivo or iQOO models, here’s the rollout plan for the public test version:

First Batch (End of December 2023):

Second Batch (End of January 2024):

• Vivo: X Fold+, X Fold, X Note
• iQOO: iQOO 10, 10 Pro, iQOO Neo8, and Neo8 Pro

So, with the exciting features and improvements OriginOS 4 brings to the table, Vivo users have a lot to look forward to in the coming months. Whether it’s faster app response times, enhanced customization, or improved connectivity, OriginOS 4 is set to elevate the smartphone experience for all its users. So, stay tuned for the official rollout and get ready to explore the new possibilities this update will offer.

Sometimes, you stumble upon a cow in Minecraft and want to bring it with you to your base. You may want to build a trading hall in every one of the villager biomes or create a massive zoo with every passive mob, every hostile mob, or perhaps every single mob in the game. To make this task possible, you can use a minecart or boat for mob transportation. However, in some cases, it’s needed to just nudge a mob in a specific spot, like sheep into a wool farm. The easiest way to move mobs is to make and use a good old trusty lead in Minecraft.

What You Need to Make a Lead

Using the resources listed below, the crafting recipe for a lead always gives two items at once. The resources are:

• 4 strings
• 1 slimeball
• Crafting table

String is a drop from the spider mob in Minecraft. These arachnids can drop 0-2 strings after they are defeated. Slimeballs are mob drops as well, which you can get by killing slimes. Only the smallest slimes drop slimeballs and the quantity is the same as string from spiders. You also need a crafting table, a block used to perform complex crafting actions.

How to Craft Lead in Minecraft

After you get your slimeball and string, follow the steps below to make a lead in the game.

1. Place the crafting table or crafter in your world. Right-click the block to open its crafting grid UI.
2. Start the recipe by placing two strings in the first two slots of the topmost row.
3. After that, you need to place a piece of string in the first slot of the middle row.
4. Next, place the fourth string in the bottom right corner of the grid in the last row.

6. Finally, you need to place the slimeball in the center slot of the crafting table.
7. Voila! You will see the lead item in the result slot on the right. Click on the lead and drag it to your inventory.

With the upcoming Minecraft 1.21 update, you will be able to automate the process using the new crafter block. It’s similar to a crafting table, but it supports only automated crafting using a redstone signal. You can use a button, lever, redstone block, or redstone clock.

Other Ways to Get Lead in Minecraft

Apart from crafting, you can obtain a lead in a couple of different ways. The first of them is by looting chests in the following locations:

• Ancient City (16.1%)
• Woodland Mansion (28.3% in Java and 27.9% in Bedrock)
• Buried Treasure in Bedrock Edition Only (34.3%)

Furthermore, there is about a 2.2% chance that you will unearth a lead item while brushing the suspicious gravel blocks in the trail ruins structures. Unexpectedly, however, the most common way to get leads is by buying them from the wandering trader. This special merchant spawns with two llamas near your location now and then.

The llamas will always be on a lead and guided by the trader. You can take the lead by killing the llamas or the trader. Another easy and much calmer way to “steal” leads is to put the llamas in a boat or a minecart. This will instantly break the leads dropping them as items.

Using a Lead to Leash and Move Mobs

The only use of a lead is to leash mobs in Minecraft. You can do this by having the lead selected on your hotbar and then right-clicking a mob. Not every mob can be leashed though. So, we have prepared a whole list of the mobs you can leash right here:

It’s also possible to put a lead on a boat in Bedrock edition, even though it seems strange. When the mob is leashed, they will follow the player closely in the direction of the movement. To take the lead off of a mob, you can right-click the mob again. Also, if you get far away from the leashed mob (more than 10 blocks), the lead will break and be dropped near that mob.

Amazing fact about the lead is that you can have multiple mobs on leads at once. However, every mob requires its own lead item. This will allow you to easily transport many mobs across a short distance. When you reach your destination, it’s possible to strap a lead to any type of a fence post, to keep the mob(s) in a certain area. To do this, you can right-click the fence block. Moreover, you can also tie the lead to a wall in the Bedrock edition, which is not possible on the Java version.

You may lead a mob both horizontally and vertically using a lead. If the mob is seven or more blocks away from the player holding the lead, it will get suspended in the air. However, this can go wrong quickly, as the mob in the air can gather momentum over time when they are bobbing up and down. This means even if they drop from a one-block-tall height, the damage may be equal to a 100-block fall. This can also work in reverse, depending on whether the mob is accelerating or not. But, it’s better not to take this risk with a rare mob.

To sum it up, leads are useful little items that can make some time-consuming and frustrating tasks a lot more manageable. Their crafting recipe is not overly expensive either, but you may just take them from the wandering trader for free. So, what do you think of leads? How often do you use them in your world? Tell us in the comment section below!

It has been a couple of years since Apple started phasing out the 3.5mm headphone jack on smartphones. While the decision was pretty controversial, most flagship phones don’t come with the jack today. Instead, smartphones these days come with USB-C audio.

As a matter of fact, some manufacturers are fully embracing USB-C audio. Take the recently released Google Pixel 8 series, for example. It has support for lossless audio through the USB-C port.

Now, on paper, USB-C audio does seem like a proper replacement for the long-lost 3.5 mm headphone jacks we used to have on smartphones. But how does it compare to the traditional 3.5mm jacks? Is it actually better? Let’s take a deeper dive to get a better understanding.

What Is USB-C Audio?

As you may already know, USB-C refers to a reversible USB connector. It has become a universal charging port for modern smartphones. Laptop, PC, tablet, and other device manufacturers have also started to ditch other charging ports in favor of this reversible connector.

But USB-C has been around since 2014. USB-C Audio debuted in 2015 with the LETV Le 1, the first Android smartphone with the feature. In 2016, the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) published the specifications for USB Audio Device Class 3.0.

The main of the USB Audio Device Class 3.0 was to “establish USB Audio over USB Type-C as the primary solution for all digital audio applications.” In other words, USB-C Audio aimed to standardize audio output via the Type-C port.

This standardization positioned the USB port found in smartphones to serve as a replacement for the 3.5 mm jack. It also allowed devices to send and receive power, output video, output audio, and transfer files all through a single USB-C port. As USB-IF says, this would deliver long-lasting, thinner, and potentially waterproof devices.

Even though USB-C Audio serves the same purpose, it works differently than a 3.5 mm jack. The headphone jack only outputs analog audio. All the digital-to-analog (DAC) processing is handled by the smartphone. USB-C, in its general form, outputs digital audio instead.

In such cases, the headphones or connected device needs to handle the conversion. That’s why you find a chip inside some USB-C to 3.5 mm converters. But if the phone comes with a DAC for wired audio, the USB-C can offer converted analog audio output.

Different USB Audio Protocols

There are three different USB-C protocols that allow a USB device to work as an audio peripheral. These protocols or classes work with all different types of USB connectors.

Class 1.0

The USB Audio Class 1.0 has native support for all the major operating systems. That includes Android smartphones that boot on Android 5.0 or newer. But the protocol is limited to USB 1.0 speeds, which is 12 Mbps. However, it does have support for high-resolution audio at a 96 kHz sample rate.

Even though USB Audio Class 1.0 is fairly outdated, it’s still the most common audio class for devices. Google first introduced the support for this class with Android 5.

Class 2.0

With USB Audio Class 2.0, you get faster transfer rates than the Class 1.0. It offers 480 Mbps of transfer speed. This eventually allows low-latency audio transfer, more bandwidth for multiple channels, and higher sample rates. It also delivers increased audio resolution to 32-bit/384 kHz. But all of these come with the cost of higher power consumption.

Class 3.0

The USB Audio Class 3.0 primarily offers improvements in terms of power consumption. It also brings support for user-defined EQ, Active Noise Cancellation (ANC), and many other audio features. Most of the modern USB-C smartphones have support for this standard. However, iOS devices only support USB Audio Class 2.0.

Pros of USB-C Audio

Among all the good parts of USB-C Audio, there’s the fact that it eliminates the need for DAC in smartphones. This allows manufacturers to free up some space inside the smartphones. But this also means that headphone or audio accessory manufacturers need to integrate DAC inside. Otherwise, an adapter is a must.

But not having DAC inside the USB-C smartphone is a good thing. Buyers won’t be stuck with the internal DAC for listening to Hi-Res audio. Instead, they can choose the devices that offer the DAC that they prefer.

Another benefit of not having an internal DAC is that the internal DACs can potentially increase the interference caused by processing hardware and batteries inside USB-C smartphones. And interference isn’t a good thing for audio. It degrades the quality.

Moreover, without internal DACs, you get better battery life on USB-C smartphones. After all, it doesn’t need to handle the processing when you’re listening to audio files.

Cons of USB-C Audio

In the current state, USB-C Audio isn’t perfect. There are several issues. Among them, there’s the fact that you need to use your charging port for connecting a wired headphone to the smartphone. Although some solutions allow you to charge and use wired headphones simultaneously, they bring interference to the equation.

Moreover, with USB-C Audio, the charging port of your phone has to take a double load. It needs to handle the wear caused by both your headphones and charger. This could eventually make you replace the port faster than usual.

Compatibility is another bad part of USB-C audio. You can’t tell whether a headphone has a DAC inside or not without looking into its detailed specs. The same thing applies to smartphones. You must dig into the specs to determine if it has an internal DAC.

There is no shortage of online games that help pass the time while you pretend to work. And while Wordle reigned supreme for a few years, there’s a new word game in town. The latest game by NYT called Connections is here to steal that spot. Since the game is still relatively new, many folks don’t know what it is and how it works. Well, we tried it out and found it to be exciting. So, we decided to explain to you what is the NYT Connections game, along with the best tips and tricks to master it.

What Is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is the latest word game by the New York Times. Connections joins the ranks of NYT’s other popular games like Wordle, Spelling Bee, and Mini Crossword, which are loved and played by people globally. This word association game gives players a collection of 16 different words to begin. While all these words might look different, some have a degree of relation to each other.

As the player, your aim is to associate these words together and categorize them into sets of four. Each puzzle has only one solution. So, if the grouped words you chose fit the categories, you win the game. Like other NYT games, Connections resets every 24 hours with a new set of words. If you have a fair idea of what the game is and want to learn how to play it, keep reading.

How to Play Connections Game

• Players get 16 words in a 4 x 4 grid divided into four hidden categories
• Figure out connections between words and group them into sets of four; grouped words become a category
• Players must figure out all categories by grouping the words
• You have four chances to group words into categories

Let’s talk about the rules and layout first. As mentioned, NYT Connections gives players a set of 16 words in a 4 x 4 grid. While most of these words are random, some have some relation to each other. As the player, it is your job to figure out this connection and group these words into sets of four and four different categories.

These four categories will not be revealed to us at the start. However, if you create the correct word group, the category will reveal itself. Once you guess all of them, you win the game. Groups are further divided into four different colors: yellow, green, blue, and purple. While yellow refers to an easy-to-guess category, purple is the most difficult to figure out.

However, the kicker is that players only get four chances, which are denoted by little bubbles at the bottom of the grid. Once you run out of chances, you fail the puzzle and must wait an entire day for it to reset. This adds a tough sprinkle of challenge to the game.

To begin, head on over to NYT Connections (visit) and click the Play button. You will now be explained the rules. Have a look through them and close the box. You will now see 16 words in a grid. Start by clicking on them and selecting a set of four words that you feel have a connection. Once done, click the Submit button.

If you’re correct, the words will be grouped and the category revealed. Keep grouping words to find out all the categories, and you will win the Connections game for the day.

Tips and Tricks to Master this Game

While it may sound easy, you might spend up to an hour trying to solve the puzzle or pull out your hair trying to build relations between words. To get some much-needed help in that area, check out the best tips and tricks for NYT Connections below.

1. Brush up Your Trivia & Vocab

The best and worst part about Connections is that it relies on the player being familiar with trivia and having a good vocabulary. However, this does not just mean little facts but also being familiar with all kinds of pop culture. If you pit this game against someone with minimal trivia factor, chances are they won’t be able to figure out the common denominators.

An example is a recent puzzle that grouped the names of horror directors. So, if you want to establish links between the words quickly, we suggest working on your general and pop culture knowledge to be in the know.

2. Watch out for Ambiguous Words

Establishing relationships between words may seem easy, but it alone won’t get you by. That’s because many words in the puzzle have been made to relate to more than one category at once. So, while you may think words like Carpenter and Saw are related and should be grouped in the same category, the latter could refer to the horror movie of the 2000s. See what we mean? You will encounter many such ambiguous words like these, which will trip you up.

To get past this hurdle, we suggest taking some time and thinking about the exact connection of these words. Have a look around the other words and see if that helps. And once you’re sure, then only click submit.

3. Your Guesses Are Precious

Unlike Wordle, which gives six generous chances to get the answer, Connections only gives you four tries. This means you essentially get a single chance to guess each category. We don’t have to tell you that makes the game challenging. As such, we highly suggest you treat the four tries you have with utmost care.

This means taking your time to sort through the words and only pressing the Submit button when it feels right. Don’t rush, as once you run out of your tries, you will have to wait 24 hours for the puzzle to reset.

4. Shuffle, Shuffle, Shuffle

In a recent Q&A session with the game’s editor, Wyna Liu confirmed that the initial word placement is intentional and is such to mislead the solvers. This is why the game has a handy Shuffle button that quickly moves all the words around. Besides changing up that initial placement, the shuffle button might also help you jog your memory when you’re thinking about a few words.

So, one of the best tips and tricks for the game is to hit that shuffle button like it owes you money. It just might be the reason your puzzle gets solved.

And that is how you play the new Connections game and easily master it. If you still can’t crack the game and need even more help, then we’re compiling hints and answers for each puzzle going forward. So, check back every day for hints if you’re unable to figure out all four categories.

There’s no denying that AI is rapidly transforming the technology landscape today. AI is making its way everywhere, from self-driving cars to chatbots to offering advanced features on our smartphones. On the note of smartphones and small devices, the industry is now shifting towards on-device AI.

Now, what exactly is on-device AI? How does it work, and what benefits does it bring? Well, there’s a lot to talk about, and in this explainer, you will find everything that you need to know about it.

What is On-Device AI?

At the current stage, most of the consumer AI is backed by huge datasets. All these datasets are stored in the cloud, and devices need to access them via the internet to offer AI-powered features. While this lowers the load on the local hardware, it’s not good for privacy.

After all, devices such as mobile phones contain a lot of personal data. In most cases, to access the AI features that smartphones have to offer, you need to upload personal data to the AI servers. This is where on-device AI comes into play.

As the name suggests, on-device AI refers to devices having the capacity to run artificial intelligence capabilities locally. This means all the AI processing happens right on the device instead of in the cloud. So, there’s no need to upload information, nor is there a need to keep the device connected to the internet.

How On-Device AI Works?

You may already be familiar with different AI models. To name some, there’s DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and GPT. These AI models are trained in the cloud, and they use a ton of data. Also, they need a lot of computing power, which is why running them is pretty expensive.

Now, that doesn’t mean that you can’t access these AI models with something that’s relatively less powerful. It can, albeit through API and different integration techniques. But even if it seems like these API-integrated apps are running locally, they aren’t. Instead, they rely on the model stored in the cloud.

For on-device AI integrations, these models need to be optimized. Otherwise, they won’t run efficiently on the targeted devices. The optimized AI models are then embedded into apps, which users can download into their own devices.

When these apps with on-device AI need to perform a task, they run the AI model offline. All the processing happens with the help of an onboard GPU, CPU, or both. That means all the data you provide for the task happens without sending anything from the device. The same thing applies to the output that these AI-powered apps provide.

This means everything, including the app data, remains isolated from the cloud. All the things related to the task happen offline with the on-device AI.

Benefits of On-Device AI

Now that you have a fair understanding of on-device AI, let’s talk about some of the benefits that it brings to the table.

Privacy and Security

As mentioned earlier, cloud-based AI needs you to upload your data. This transfer of data and use of data in many platforms and different cloud services increases privacy risk. It can lead to data manipulation, data theft, and data tracking.

On-device AI helps to keep the user’s data secure and isolated. By doing so, it provides better privacy. This also means you can use the on-device AI-powered features without concerns, as the data remains on the device. It will eventually allow you to get personalized features.

Better AI Performance

AI performance is generally measured in different ways. Among all, there’s processing performance and latency. On-device AI performance offers a significant improvement compared to cloud-backed AI performance. As a matter of fact, the performance improvement is double digits in most cases.

Considering the recent launch of powerful mobile hardware, the trend of improved on-device AI performance will continue to grow. Eventually, mobile phones will be able to run large generative models without any issues. Of course, model optimization also plays a role in this regard.

When it comes to generative AI, the application latency plays a crucial role. For example, chatbots need to respond in near real-time to offer a good user experience. And when these chatbot applications rely on on-device AI, there are no latency issues caused by cloud servers or congested networks.

This reduction of latency also allows on-device AI applications to be more reliable. And let’s not forget that it enables you to execute a query anywhere and everywhere at any time.

Better Personalized Features

Thanks to higher privacy, on-device AI models can be customized to meet users’ personalized goals. On-device generative AI, for example, can offer customized responses based on user’s reactions, usage patterns, and other personalized factors. It can help to make medical devices and fitness trackers more functional.

On-device AI and Cost

Cloud providers are currently struggling to mitigate operating and equipment costs associated with AI models. And many have started to roll out subscription-based programs to tackle these costs. These fees are likely to increase. Otherwise, the AI solutions won’t be able to cater to the growing user base properly.

On-device AI, on the other hand, reduces the strain on cloud computing. After all, all the process is happening locally, and there’s no need to pass data to cloud computing solutions. It also means that consumers don’t need to pay extra fees to access AI-powered features as their own devices can run them offline.

With iOS 15, Apple added a feature in the Safari browser that allowed users to move the address bar according to their preferences. And now, two years after the change, Google has finally decided to follow suit with Chrome on iOS. Initially, when Apple decided to move the Safari search bar to the bottom, it faced mixed reviews. With time, it has grown as a convenience for users with smaller hands like me. Once you get a hang of it, there’s no going back. Honestly speaking, I won’t feel comfortable using a browser on my iPhone that forces me to have a search bar at the top. Thankfully, Chrome now lets you move the address bar to the bottom on an iPhone. Let’s see how to do it.

How to Customize Chrome Address Bar on iPhone

Note: Google has started rolling out this feature with Chrome for iOS version 119. We tested this feature on multiple iPhones, including the iPhone 11, 12, 12 Pro, and 15 Pro Max. If you have not received this feature, try updating the Chrome for iOS app.

• Open the Chrome app on your iPhone.
• Now, long-press the address bar and tap on “Move address bar to bottom”.

• An alternative way to do this is to tap on the three dots on the bottom-right of the screen, scroll through the icons, and tap Settings.

• From here, tap on the Address Bar and choose Bottom. Finally, tap on Done present at the top-right corner.
• And that’s it! You’ll now see the Chrome address bar at the bottom on your iOS device.

• You can follow the same steps to move the search to the top.

So you see, it’s super easy to move the address bar to the bottom in Chrome on iOS. It’s nice to see Google finally allowing iPhone users to adjust the address bar according to the size of their hands and devices for a more personalized browsing experience. It’s an optional change, and you still have the top-oriented address bar by default. Bear in mind that Google has just started rolling out this feature, so it may take some time to be widely available for everyone.

OnePlus announced that the OnePlus 12 will be the first-ever smartphone to be equipped with Sony’s brand-new sensor. It’s the Lytia dual-layer stacked sensor that Sony announced back in June of this year.

OnePlus says, “The new generation of Sony’s Lytia sensor embodies beauty with light.” The brand has also teased that the sensor will open up a new mobile photography future. In other words, the OnePlus 12 is shaping up to offer a redefined mobile camera performance.

More About the Sony Lytia Sensor of the OnePlus 12

The new Sony Lytia stacked CMOS sensor comes with two-layer transistor pixel technology. It features separate layers for the photodiode and transistor layers. This separation allowed Sony to integrate larger diodes. Also, it enables the sensor to capture more light, which is something OnePlus has already teased.

That said, the OnePlus 12 won’t be the only device that will come with the new sensor. Earlier this year, vivo and Oppo also announced their partnerships with Sony. That means the upcoming vivo X100 and Oppo Find X6 will likely come with the same sensor.

Previously, OnePlus announced that the OnePlus 12 will feature the BOE’s new LTPO OLED display. The panel promises to offer over 3000 NITS of brightness. This brightness rating will offer a better viewing experience in different lighting conditions.

Besides, the OnePlus 12 will come with the recently unveiled Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. And for those who missed it, Qualcomm has made significant improvements on the 8 Gen 3. The better-performing chipset could make the device offer the most out of the new sensor and display.

When it comes to the launch, the OnePlus 12 is expected to debut next month in China. The global of the device is set for early 2024. We will update you when OnePlus shares more information.