On the flip side though, it has its fair share of issues as well. The unnecessary additional swipe-up gesture to access the notification from the lock screen, the default wallpapers being removed, and the inability to add third-party widgets to the lock screen were already giving a tough time to the users. Unfortunately, there has now been another entry to this list. Numerous users have voiced their concern that the Assistive Touch is not working on their iPhone running iOS 16....

If we talk about the last one, then recently a game from Blizzard was always throwing up the Version Mismatch error. Upon further investigating the issue via Wireshark, I found out that the game had six servers in total, out of which two were the issue-causing ones (data wasn’t being updated in real-time on those servers). Since the game randomly allocated the servers, so whenever my credentials were being sent to one of those servers, I was getting greeted with the Version Mismatch error....

Accompanying the Gaussian Blur effect, it has always managed to catch the attention of the masses. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end. And this was right at the front of the queue of the features that faced the ax. Instead of this, users are now given a dull grey background which seems to disrupt the entire UI/UX. While Xiaomi mostly attributed this removal to the fact that the blurry effect was quite resource-hungry and lead to extra baggage on the GPU, that didn’t prove to be the case....

However, as of now, it is proving to be easier said than done. A slew of complaints are lined up wherein users have reported that they are unable to connect the Spotify to their Nuvo audio system. The speakers do appear in the list of Spotify Connect available devices, but when they try to select it, they are stuck in an infinite ‘connecting’ loop. If you are also in the same boat, then fret not....

Many users have voiced their concerns that they are no longer able to send an iMessage to themselves ever since they updated their iPhone to iOS 16. They could still iMessages to everyone else, it’s only the self message that isn’t working. Whenever they are trying to do so, the message gets part of the green bubble instead of blue. As far as the culprit is concerned, well all fingers are currently being pointed to the latest OS upgrade....

Many of them have voiced their concern that the Dark and Darker is frequently crashing all of a sudden. For some, it happens right on launch, for others, it happens on the title screen whereas some have even reported crashing while making changes to their character. Apart from that, some are also getting the ‘Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION’ error. The issue first came to light after the Playtest 4 update and is constantly bugging the players since....

However, as of late, it seems to be giving out a tough time to some users. They have voiced their concern that the desktop items are missing in Stage Manager, thereby negatively affecting their workflow. Owing to this issue, they are unable to drag and drop items from the desktop over to their browser or any other app opened in the foreground. If you are also getting bugged with this problem, then this guide shall help you out....

And now, there has been some intruigng developments going on with the screen resolution. Upon looking at the display drivers for the Pixel 7 Pro, there were some hints that the device might allow rescaling the resolution. Then with the Android 13 OS having a separate section for the same all the more confirms it. However, the official confirmation could only be made once the device is released. In the meantime, the developers behind one of the most popular custom kernels have managed to port this feature to the Pixel 6 Pro....

In its current state, there’s just an icon present in the taskbar. However, with the new update, you will now get a search field at the left of the taskbar. This feature has already rolled out to the Developer Preview and is slowly rolling out to beta users. However, you could skip this waiting queue and enable this feature right away. And in this guide, we will show you how to do just that....

However, in all the aforementioned cases, your device’s bootloader will already be unlocked. So you will be able to flash the firmware and bring your device back to life, without even interacting with Debugging. However, what if your device’s bootloader is locked and you get stuck in a bootloop? Unfortunately, that is now predominantly the case in recent years when the device gets into a constant loop after installing an official OTA update....

In most cases, this usually happens when they are trying to grant system-level API access to a third-party app. So if you are also getting bugged by this “Exception occurred while executing grant” error message, then this guide will make you aware of a method to rectify this issue once and for all/ So without further ado, let’s get started. Fix Exception occurred while executing grant In order to fix this issue, all that you need to do is turn off Permission Monitoring, or in more confusing terms, enable “Disable Permission Monitoring”....

Unfortunately, in recent months, its performance has been anything but good. At the time of writing this article, this service is going through around 4 documented issues without any official fix in sight. Let’s check out each of them and their associated fixes, beginning with the fix for the Apple Music back button disappearing issue on Mac. Fix Apple Music Back Button Disappearing Issue on Mac Many concerned users have reported that the back button is frequently disappearing from the Browse section of Apple Music....

Perfect because it wouldn’t require formatting your PC as a reset is only needed in case of a downgrade. But at that time, since both the builds were at the same stage, it wasn’t any rollback of sorts. But as of now, the Developer is about to eclipse the Beta version and would soon be the least stable builds out of all the three. There isn’t any issue with this as everyone is aware that Developer builds are always among the least stable ones....

Whereas others are busy hopping on the Reels bandwagon, this app is solely focused on improving and enhancing its underlying features. However, even then a few bugs and issues seem to creep in along the way. As of now, various Galaxy S22/Plus/Ultra users have voiced their concern that the front camera is not working on Snapchat. To be more specific, users aren’t able to switch to the selfie camera by any means possible....

Quite a few Pixel 6 users have voiced their concern that the Google Assistant gets invoked all of a sudden and then starts dialing phones to any random person from their contact list. What is even more interesting is the fact that Assistant seems to be having a rather strange liking for James. Near about every user who had a contact name saved as James, had to unwillingly get on a call with him, even though they hadn’t initiated the call in the first place (hint: it was Assistant)....

On the flip side though, it resulted in minor UI obstruction while using the device. And to make matter worse, Google didn’t provide any option to hide/remove the gesture pill in the navigation bar on Android. With that said, we did manage to grab hold of two nifty workarounds through which you could easily get this job done. So without further ado, let’s check it out. Hide/Remove the Gesture Pill in Navigation Bar on Android 13 via HiveNavBar [Root] That’s it....

First off, you don’t need to take the help of any third-party app or antivirus. Moreover, many users are now well and aware of the methods to bypass or remove the blocked websites using the firewall or antivirus app. But this host file methodology is something that not many seem to be aware of. All in all, there could be quite a few reasons why one would consider blocking websites using the Hosts file in Windows 11....

Well, one approach is to manually carry out the process, but it would take ages to do so. Likewise, you could also opt for a website to do this job, but that would involve uploading your images over to their server, which could prove to be a big privacy concern. Fortunately, there exists a pretty nifty method through which you could change multiple file extensions at once on your Windows PC....

And when we have an impressive automation tool at hand, probably we wouldn’t ven need the help of any third-party apps in the first place. So in this guide we will using an Automator Shortcut that will help you close all the third-party apps at once on your Mac. Follow along. How to Close All Apps at once on Mac via Automator Shortcut NOTE: You could also some apps to the exception list so that they don’t get closed when you execute the script via the shortcut keys....

And truth be told, this isn’t the first time and wouldn’t be the last time either. With every new update, a bug or two usually creeps in as well. Depending on its intensity, sometimes it might only result in an issue of minuscule nature whereas, in rare instances, it could spell out trouble for the end-users. And when the latter happens, your first course of action is to try out the basic workarounds....