Moreover, these devices are quite active participants in custom development. Once you have unlocked the bootloader, you will be in a position to flash custom ROMs, install a custom recovery, and gain system-level access by rooting your device via magisk. This in turn will allow you to welcome abode a plentitude of mods. However, this is just half the story. There’s every possibility of things going south and your device being end up in a bricked or boot looped state....

Along the same lines, there were also a few volume-related issues, such as the inability to control the volume when you are casting media from your device. This turned out to be a legal issue and would be settled in the next update (12.1). However, there’s now another volume issue that is causing a great deal of inconvenience to the end-users. According to various users across Google Support Forum, the vibrate icon is not appearing on their Pixel device’s status bar on Android 12....

Moreover, it has recently been blessed with a newer version that brings in a plethora of noteworthy changes. There are some noticeable performance improvements, the Find in Files functionality is much faster and it has also streamlined the entire process of building modern, cloud-based applications with Azure. However, in spite of all the goodies attached, it isn’t free from its fair share of issues. As of now, various users have voiced their concern that whenever they are debugging an app via the latest VS, the taskbar hangs, freezes, and stops working....

For the unaware, when your device’s camera or microphone is in use, then you’ll get a green indicator icon of the same at the top right of your screen. This indicator comes in quite useful if an app tries to secretly use system-level permissions without your consent. And thanks to this privacy feature, many users have reportedly caught WhatsApp using the device’s microphone even when the app is not running....

As you might have noticed, all this is taken care of by the OS itself, you don’t have to manually assign these letters. But what is the need to assign letters to these drives? Well, it tends to give a unique indication to each of these drives, which helps the Storage partition of your PC in identifying them. However, in some instances, your PC might not be able to assign a letter to the connected device....

While its relationship with Roku has always been a patchy one, it now seems to be troubling other Smart TVs users as of now. A slew of complaints are lined up across Reddit and Google Support Forums that users are unable to access the YouTube App. And this time, the issue is slightly weird, to say the least. Users are being greeted with the message that they are ‘outside their home area’, and hence for protective measures, YouTube wouldn’t allow them to access the app....

However, there was always an element of doubt surrounding this app that it catered mostly to the influencers and people with a truckload of followers. To further justify this statement, there were a few features that were exclusively meant for those the elite classes, and until you belong to that category, you might not be able to get a first-hand impression of such functionalities. One among them was the ability to add links to the Instagram story....

As of now, various users have voiced their concern that Adobe Illustrator is turning a PNG into a negative, inverted, or solid yellow color as soon as the image is saved. It tends to happen with both the CMYK and RGB color space and to both the PNG files- the ones downloaded from the internet as well as the manually created ones [either in Photoshop to remove a background or if a vector image is exported as a PNG]....

A few months back, users with a touch-based PC reported that the Photoshop 23.0 was crashing whenever they tried to zoom in or tilt the images. The developers were quick to patch the issue with the release of v23.0.1. However, with the release of v23.3.0, the issue has re-appeared. But this time, it isn’t just limited to touch-based screens. Various users running the latest iteration of the Windows OS have voiced their concern that Adobe Photoshop crashing on their PCs....

As of now, various users have voiced their concern the swipe up and swipe down gestures are not working on their watch. As a result of which, they are unable to access the control center, check notifications, and change settings like mute the ringer, sleep, etc. If you are also in the same boat, then this guide will help you out. In this tutorial, we will show you a couple of workarounds to fix the Swipe Up Gesture to open Control Center not working in the Apple Watch....

Many of them have voiced their concern that they are unable to link their Arcadegeddon’s Epic Games account on their PlayStation. As a result of which, they are unable to make any use of the crossplay feature. And it goes without saying that a multiplayer game without the cross-play functionality is probably the worst-case scenario that no one wants to think of. With that said, there does exist a workaround that seems to have spelled out success when it comes to rectifying this bug....

Recently it was in the news for problems with the Fit as a Fiddle achievement and the fact that users were being stuck in an elevator in Houndfield Electrical Station. While the dust was about to settle down, a new one has already made its way. Various users have voiced their concern that they are unable to get their hands on the Don Quixote trophy. This is happening in spite of the fact that they have check-marked the prerequisite of activating the 17 windmills....

Destiny 2 Iron Banner challenge progression stuck at 3/4 However, the aforementioned challenge is giving out a tough time to the end users. As of now, various users have voiced their concern that the Iron Banner challenge progression in Destiny 2 is stuck at 3/4. The users are not getting any more pinnacles but the game still asks them to complete 1 more challenge. Likewise, some users have also said that the fourth challenge on their warlock did not count towards the iron banner rank boost....

Once you set your foot on the rooting platform, chances are you are going to soft-brick your device at some stage. No matter how safe you are going to play, you might well have to shell out some efforts in bringing your device back to normal. Unless you have a Nandroid backup (which is highly recommended), you might be in for some big trouble. This is where stock firmwares (some refer to it as ‘Stock ROM’) comes into the picture....

If we talk about the latter one, then it is available across all the major platforms, including Windows, Android, Linux, and macOS. However, as of now, it is going through a rough patch on the Apple platform. Various users have voiced their concern that the Dropbox connection icon has been greyed out on their macOS. The service is working well and good, it’s just that the icon has been greyed out, thereby giving out a false impression that the sync is currently paused....

With health-related functionalities like daily readiness scores, health metrics, heart health tracking, and stress management tools, there’s a lot to look forward to. Then there’s also a built-in voice assistant, the ability to take Bluetooth calls, get text and app-based notifications, and send voice replies. However, in spite of all the goodies attached, it isn’t free from its fair share of issues either. As of now, various users have voiced their concern that their Fitbit Sense is stuck on the Fitbit logo....

While this time around, it hasn’t been managed to match that same intensity [thankfully], it hasn’t just given up yet! Recently we were witnessing a slew reports, especially from T-Mobile and Google Fi users that they are yet to get blessed with the January update and as of today, they are the most lucky set of users. The reason for the delay is the Bluetooth bug that has managed to creep in alongside the update....

However, in spite of all these goodies, it isn’t free from its fair share of issues. The app as well as its web counterpart provides the option of saving your favorite places so that you could easily access them as and when required- in just a single tap. However, it is this very feature that is again going through a rough patch. A slew of complaints are lined up across the Google Support Forum regarding the saved/starred places missing from Google Maps, both in the Android and iOS apps....

Recently, the company rolled out an update that would, at least on paper, enhances the performance and iron out underlying bugs, but the reality was a stark contrast from it. Right after installing that OTA update, many OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 8 series users reported a green vertical line on their display. While this issue isn’t new in this domain, however, it only tends to happen due to a hardware failure, such an issue due to a software issue has never been documented before....

However, it was also on the receiving end for a few uninvited guests. While most of these bugs have since been quashed, there are a few that still remains unanswered. One among them is the inability to get notifications from the Messenger app. As a result of this issue, users have to now manually open the app and then check if they have received any notifications or not. And that’s not it....