Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Facebook Now Has 1.1 Billion Daily Active Users
Facebook, the world's largest social network, has steadily built its advertising business to become the world's second-largest digital ad platform after Google. Now it's looking at ways to make more money from video ads and from newer services like Instagram, the mobile photo-sharing app that it bought for $1 billion (roughly Rs. 6,566 crores) in 2012.
Instagram recently announced it has over 400 million monthly users, surpassing the 300 million who use the rival social networking site Twitter. While Facebook has been introducing Instagram ads slowly - to avoid irritating users by overloading them with commercial messages - the company said in September that it would allow more kinds of ads, including longer video spots, on the photo-sharing service.
With those new formats, Instagram could produce more than $250 million (roughly Rs. 1,641 crores) in revenue for the current quarter, Evercore ISI analyst Ken Sena estimates. Businesses will spend about $600 million (roughly Rs. 3,939 crores) on Instagram ads this year - and nearly $1.5 billion (roughly Rs. 9,850 crores) in 2016, according to research firm eMarketer.
"When we talk to advertisers and ad agencies, they're very interested in Instagram," said eMarketer analyst Debra Aho Williamson.
One reason: In recent years, there's been a debate over whether teens and young adults are forsaking Facebook in favor of newer, trendier online services. But Williamson said young adults are "very visually focused and pretty heavy users of Instagram."
Facebook doesn't disclose how much of its revenue comes from Instagram. The company beat Wall Street estimates on Wednesday by reporting third-quarter net income of $891 million (roughly Rs. 5,852 crores), on revenue of $4.5 billion (roughly Rs. 29,555 crores). Profit was up 11 percent, while revenue grew 40 percent from the same period a year earlier.
More than 1.55 billion people now visit Facebook at least once a month, up 14 percent from a year ago. Daily users increased by 17 percent, to 1.1 billion. As in previous quarters, Facebook said a majority of users are visiting Facebook on mobile devices, and mobile ads contributed 78 percent of the company's ad revenue.
Facebook has seen continued growth in revenue and users over the last three years, but the company is growing more slowly as it gets bigger. That's led it to consider new ways of showing advertising.
Facebook is also increasingly introducing new ways for its users to share and watch video on the social network, positioning itself against Google's popular YouTube service. CEO Mark Zuckerberg told analysts Wednesday that Facebook users are now watching more than 8 billion video clips a day on the site, up from 4 billion in April. (Facebook counts any clip played for at least 3 seconds as a "view.")
Analysts say Facebook has huge, untapped potential in both video and its growing stable of apps and services, many of which operate separately from the main social network. That includes Instagram, the WhatsApp messaging app and Oculus VR, which makes virtual reality gear.
More than 800 million people are now using WhatsApp, the messaging app Facebook bought for $19 billion in 2014, and another 700 million people use the Messenger service that Facebook developed internally.
While the company hasn't spelled out plans to make money from those apps, chief financial officer David Wehner told analysts Wednesday that he's confident "there are going to be opportunities" in the future.
Zuckerberg also cautioned that it will take time for virtual reality technology to gain wide adoption. But chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg stressed Instagram's more immediate potential during the company's quarterly earnings call.
For advertisers, she boasted, Facebook and Instagram are the "two most important mobile platforms out there." Instagram offers advertisers the same targeting and measurement capabilities they can get with ads on Facebook, she added.
Facebook still handles less advertising than Google, its biggest rival, but its share of global spending on digital ads is growing, according to eMarketer. The firm estimates Facebook's share will be 9.6 percent this year, up from 8 percent last year, while Google's will drop from 32 percent last year to 30.4 percent this year.
Experts caution that Facebook must be careful as it introduces new kinds of advertising, so it doesn't overwhelm or annoy users. The company worked closely with advertisers to make sure the first ads on Instagram "met a high bar" for aesthetics and creativity, Williamson said. Still, she said she's recently seen "a couple of duds."
Facebook Messenger Launched for Apple Watch
The App Store listing states users can utilise the new Messenger app on watchOS 2 to send and receive voice clips, apart Likes, stickers, and more. The updated app also brings new features for devices running iOS 9, including the ability to find Messenger contacts and conversations from the iPhone's search screen, and access Messenger via the list of multitasking apps on the iPad.
Facebook earlier this week rolled out a Messenger feature to its main app, called Doodle. With it, users can Doodle on photos uploaded from the main Facebook app. In order to Doodle on pictures, users simply choose a picture to upload, then hit the edit button and choose the Doodle tab. It's possible to customise the Doodle by changing the colour and pen size, and you can draw or write on pictures. This can be used to draw attention to different parts of picture, or simply send a message.
First announced at WWDC 2015 in June, watchOS 2 was during the September 9 event promised to rollout from September 16, however, Apple encountered some bugs that led to a delay of nearly a week.
A company spokeswoman had said the bug was taking longer to fix than expected. "We will not release watchOS 2 today but will shortly," the spokeswoman said.
'Facebook at Work' Could Be Open to Everyone Soon
The tool has been in beta since January, but the pilot programme is ending, and the company is likely to launch a freemium version of the interoffice network by the end of the year, Re/code reported project head Julien Codorniou as saying.
Facebook has been using a version of Facebook at Work internally for years.
More than 100 companies are using Facebook at Work as part of the beta. Many of those companies are just now starting to expand the product internally.
Heineken, a leading lager beer company, for example, has been testing the product with just 40 of its top executives, but plans to expand Facebook at Work to all 550 US employees by the end of September.
Linio, a Latin American e-commerce company, is expanding the product internally from 200 to 2,000 employees by the end of the month.
Facebook may cash in on the "familiarity". "If somebody comes into the company, they know how to use this tool from day one. So training cost is zero. That's important," Ryan Holmes, CEO of Hootsuite, which is part of the beta group, was quoted as saying.
Facebook will need to convince employers that green-lighting Facebook use among the staff won't result in a loss of productivity.
"It is unrealistic that organisations try to lock people out of social. It is like telling people that they can't have their own personal phone," Holmes noted.
Facebook Mentions and Live Now Available for Verified Profiles
As of Thursday, anyone with a verified Facebook profile will be able to use Facebook Mentions, an application made available earlier this year to actors, musicians and other celebrities to connect with their fans.
"People love reading articles from and connecting with their favorite journalists and public figures on Facebook," the social network announced in a blog post.
"Today, we're making Facebook Mentions and Live available to public figures with verified profiles to help them engage their followers and interact with their peers."
The move will allow journalists to report live from a news scene and host questions from followers on Facebook.
The users may choose who gets to see the live video stream.
"Whether you're sharing text, links, photos or something else, Mentions lets you choose the audience you want to share with," the blog post said.
"For example, you can share a post so only your followers see it in News Feed."
Facebook began offering the service amid competition in live streaming from Twitter's Periscope and the independent Meerkat app, both of which launched this year.
Facebook Hits Milestone of 1 Billion Users in a Single Day
"We just passed an important milestone," chief executive and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg declared in a post on his Facebook page.
"On Monday, 1 in 7 people on Earth used Facebook to connect with their friends and family."
"When we talk about our financials, we use average numbers, but this is different," Zuckerberg added.
"This was the first time we reached this milestone, and it's just the beginning of connecting the whole world."
Zuckerberg also posted a video dedicated to the achievement.
We made this video to celebrate all you've done to help our community connect one billion people in a single day. It's an amazing milestone. I hope you enjoy.
Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, 27 August 2015
Facebook on Thursday also said it is building new technology that video creators can use to guard against their works being copied at the social network without permission.
"This technology is tailored to our platform and will allow these creators to identify matches of their videos on Facebook across pages, profiles, groups, and geographies," a blog post said.
"Our matching tool will evaluate millions of video uploads quickly and accurately, and when matches are surfaced, publishers will be able to report them to us for removal."
Facebook planned to soon begin testing the new matching technology with a select group of partners, including media companies.
The California-based social network said that it has got word from some publishers that videos are sometimes uploaded to Facebook without permission in a practice referred to as "freebooting."
Facebook is already using an Audible Magic system that uses audio "fingerprinting" to identify and block copyrighted videos from making it onto the social network without proper authorization.
"We want creators to get credit for the videos that they own," Facebook said.
"To address this, we have been exploring ways to enhance our rights management tools to better empower creators to control how their videos are shared on Facebook."
Facebook Unveils 'M' Virtual Assistant for Messenger
The personal digital assistant - dubbed "M" - completes tasks along with seeking out information at the behest of users.
"Unlike other AI-based services in the market, M can actually complete tasks on your behalf," Facebook's David Marcus said in an online post.
"It can purchase items, get gifts delivered to your loved ones, book restaurants, travel arrangements, appointments and way more."
Marcus described the test as an early step in a journey toward building a large-scale service using the virtual assistant software.
Word of "M" came just two days after Microsoft made its Cortana virtual assistant software available to users of Android mobile devices.
Cortana is Microsoft's answer to Apple's Siri and Google Now, which respond to voice commands on mobile devices.
The launch is part of an effort by Microsoft to expand its mobile presence despite a weak showing for its Windows Phone devices.
"The Cortana app can do most of the things Cortana does on your PC or on a Windows phone," Microsoft's Susan Hendrich said in a blog post.
"With the app, you can manage your hectic lifestyle by setting and getting reminders, searching the web on-the-go, tracking important information such as flight details, as well as starting and completing tasks across all of your devices."
A beta version of Cortana was made available on Monday to US users of Android devices, and "we are planning to roll it out to other markets," Hendrich said.
Facebook Now a Bigger Source of Traffic for News Sites Than Google: Study
Links shared on Facebook and Twitter have become a crucial source of incoming traffic, and have been vying with search as a source of new readers for some time, said results from the analytics firm Parse.Ly.
"The company's latest estimates show that social-media sources accounted for 43 percent of the traffic to the Parse.Ly network of media sites, while Google accounted for just 38 percent," Fortune magazine quoted Parse.Ly's chief technical officer Andrew Montalenti as saying.
This is not the first time that Facebook has edged past Google in the traffic-referral race, Montalenti said.
"The social network took the top spot by a small amount last October, but this month's lead is far more dramatic," Parse.Ly's CTO said quoting from the company's data.
It is clear that search has hit a kind of plateau and is not really growing any more as a referral source for media.
"There's a lot of effort among media companies being placed on specific social channels like Twitter, but our data shows that Twitter is basically a distant traffic source," Montalenti was quoted as saying.
"Facebook is more like a black box in terms of how it operates. And yet it's this huge and growing traffic source," he said.
Facebook Starts Treating Public and Private Events Differently
For instance, the company says that in public events, it will present more contextual information such as location and event, which will go along with larger head images. It will also list relevant information such as say, an artist's profile and photos of the venue of the concert you're attending. Facebook might eventually also change the ways we interact with events.
The company said that users interact with events in different ways, so it is considering replacing the "Join" option with "Follow" or "Remind me" to tone down the commitment a user feels obligated to, especially since most users select the Join option only to stay up to date with changes or to remember the event as it approaches.
The company had earlier this year rolled out a feature that allowed users to subscribe to notifications from events near you and hosted by Pages you like. The feature was rolled out to both the Web interface and mobile apps. The new notifications options are meant to go a step further, getting notifications for individual events for example, and may soon also offer recommendations for upcoming events.
Private events are for personal occasions, said Facebook. Alongside, it announced new ways to create private events, 36 different cover art images to use across different themes like holiday, family and seasons. These themes are for now only on Facebook's Android app, and will soon be rolled out to the iOS counterpart. As of now, these new features are only available to the US audience.
The company is experimenting some features to attract users. For instance, if your friends are attending an event, or if an event is popular nearby your place, the company will highlight it to you in one the side columns of the site, apart from the News Feeed. Facebook has a lot of data about you, and it is utilising it to generate suggested events you might actually appreciate. The more interest you show, the more suggestions you'll get.
Facebook realises the potential of Events, noting that 75 million pages for private events were created on the social network last year. The latest changes could help it increase user engagement.
At the sidelines of this announcement, the company also quietly revamped its Notes feature to make it a full-fledged blogging platform. If it wasn't clear already, Facebook's intention with these aggressive expansions is to become the go-to place for how a user connects with friends, family, or particular communities.
Facebook Reportedly Making App to Deliver Breaking News Alerts
The app, which is said to be part of the Facebook for Business initiative but separate from Facebook at Work, will reportedly ask users to choose which publications or 'stations' they want to receive notifications from as well as the specific topics or 'substations' they want to receive news about, Business Insider reports.
The social networking giant is said to have a few launch partners already in place. The breaking news app is reportedly currently in alpha testing. The user would get an instant notification of up to 100 characters whenever news in their pre-selected topics breaks.
All notifications sent through Facebook's app will link out to that publication's website. Business Insider cites a person "playing around with the Facebook Business platform" as the source of its information, and also claims to have received screenshots of the product.
Facebook already took a major step to enter the news sphere earlier this year, with the unveiling of Facebook Instant Articles - a service that lets major news outlets publish articles directly on the social network. Under the new programme, publishers will get to keep 100 percent of revenue brought in from ads that they sell and 70 percent if Facebook sells the ad.
Recently, Twitter began testing a breaking news tab in its phone app, and soon it will release the events and news-focused Project Lightning.
A recent survey by the Pew Research Centre found that an increasing number of people in the US are turning to Twitter and Facebook for their daily dose of news and other information. The survey found that users turn to each of these prominent social networks to fulfil different types of information needs.
Majority of users (63 percent) now see Twitter and Facebook as a source for news about events and issues outside the realm of friends and family. That share has increased substantially from 2013, when about half of users (52 percent of Twitter users, 47 percent of Facebook users) said they get news from the social platforms.
Facebook Makes It Trivial to Find Information Associated With Any Mobile Number
Searching and mapping friends by simply looking up their phone numbers is a handy feature if you don't know the email address of your friend, or if their profile is hidden from public view. However, this works even if someone has added their mobile number to Facebook but not shared it with anyone using privacy controls, which means you can effectively lookup the Facebook profile associated with any mobile number.
Reza Moaiandin, the technical director of Leeds-based technology company Salt Agency, discovered this flaw. He then made a tool that would randomly generate different phone numbers and try to find a corresponding profile registered with that number. Within minutes, the tool was able to retrieve profile picture, name, and other publicly shared information of thousands of people.
It's like "walking into a bank, asking for a few thousand customers' personal information based on their account number, and the bank telling you: 'Here are their customer details." Moaiandin said in a statement to The Guardian.
Moaiandin informed Facebook about the vulnerability twice, once in April and the other time in July and urged it to add an additional layer of security. Facebook reportedly dismissed his discovery and refused to call it a vulnerability. The company also seemed rather complacent with the feature. "We do not consider it a security vulnerability, but we do have controls in place to monitor and mitigate abuse," it reportedly told Moaiandin.
Facebook Launches Security Checkup Tool
As Facebook account security settings often stay buried under several security and privacy tabs of Facebook, away from general users' eyes, the Security Checkup tool is meant to help surface the options when required.
Facebook's Security Checkup puts users through three steps to secure their account. The first step would prompt users to log out of devices they have not used in a while, or may have forgotten about. The second step lets them turn on the Login Alerts feature, which would notify users whenever someone else tries to log in their account. The notifications would come as an email or a regular notification whenever a new device or browser is used to log in to Facebook. The third step would give some tips to users as to how they can create a stronger password.
"We recommend not using your Facebook password anywhere else online, never sharing it with anyone, and avoiding common words that may be easy to guess," says Melissa Luu-Van, Product Manager, Facebook on the company blog post.
Facebook has made the Security Checkup tool available globally for desktop and has promised to bring it to mobile versions soon. Users can start with the process right away from here. Also, people would start seeing the reminder for Security Checkup on top of the News Feed in a week's time. Clicking on 'Get Started' would prompt the three aforementioned steps.
The firm is also taking hints from LinkedIn by testing a similar profile tags feature. Users can either tag themselves, or friends can tag users.
Facebook Hackathon Gives Super Mario Millennial Touch
But, the playfully heroic video game character became fodder for fierce rivalry between Maler and her brother as children and she pounced on a chance to create a Facebook-infused level during a two-day hackathon at the social network's headquarters in the Silicon Valley city of Menlo Park.
Maler and fellow 20-somethings named their team "Move Fast and Brick Things" in a merging of a Facebook hacker-mindset motto "move fast and break things," with a reference to brick blocks that are well-known obstacles in Mario games.
"We are millennials and we grew up playing Mario," 23-year-old Facebook employee Maler said at the hackathon on Wednesday.
"We thought, 'Let's bring Facebook to Nintendo. Be bold.'"
More than 100 Facebook employees took part in a hackathon that sprang out of an invitation by Nintendo to create a level for a new "Super Mario Maker" game set for release on September 11.
The event sprang from a partnership in which the Japanese video game veteran gave Facebook early access to the game so the social network could create its own level of play.
Nintendo will mark the 30th anniversary of its iconic "Super Mario" franchise this year with the new game, which will let people create and share levels for play.
'Diabolical' minds
"Facebook has attracted some of the brightest minds in the tech industry who can come up with some of the most diabolical puzzles and who also like to push boundaries about what is possible," AJ Glasser, manager of the social network's games partnerships team, told AFP at the event.
"Pushing everything to the maximum fits well with what Mario Maker is trying to accomplish, which is re-imagining a game that is 30 years old."
Game levels created by competing teams featured tricky challenges, daring leaps, daunting adversaries, and, of course, cleverly incorporated Facebook or Instagram logos along with "thumbs up" icons.
Players have to be able to beat levels they create because "you can't just make people crazy," Krysta Yang of Nintendo of America told AFP at the hackathon.
"A game that lets you showcase your creativity is a perfect fit with the culture at Facebook," Yang said.
Some teams drew diagrams on graph paper, others worked on white boards, and there were those who opted to use sticky notes they frequently re-arranged.
The winning level will be available at Nintendo's online Miiverse social network for Wii U consoles.
"Super Mario Maker" will let any player create and share game levels.
Mario for millennials
"Mario kind of went away a little bit, and to bring it back to the next generation is pretty awesome," Maler said.
"For most of us, it is like being a little kid again," chimed 24-year-old teammate Lola Alli.
"Being able to make something you enjoyed where you were a kid is super exciting."
Yang noted that making the winning Facebook level also promises bragging rights among tech-savvy Mario lovers at the social network.
"I certainly plan to Facebook about it; post a few Instagram pictures," Glasser said.
Nintendo played to "Super Mario" fans during a premier Electronic Entertainment Expo video game gathering that took place in Los Angeles in June.
"If there is a secret to the longevity of Nintendo franchises, it is transformation," Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime said during an E3 presentation.
Xbox and PlayStation consoles from Microsoft and Sony, respectively, are known for immersive, action-packed games nearing film quality while Nintendo has built a devoted following for closely-protected franchises such as Mario and Legend of Zelda.
Facebook Launches New Video Tools and Library for Page Admins
The updated video upload tools would now let Facebook Page admins send 'secret' videos, just like YouTube's unlisted videos, which can be accessed only via direct URL links and don't appear on searches and other social media websites. Using this tool, users would be able to share videos privately. Facebook has also given admins the freedom to restrict audiences by age and gender, and to keep their own video thumbnails.
Some of the other features offered by Facebook include labelling of videos into categories such as Entertainment or News, and the publishing of a video directly on the Videos tab, not even on the timeline. Admins can also block third party embeds for the videos. The ability to set an expiration date of a video is also included.
Using the Video Library, users can edit a video's metadata after upload that also includes adding of subtitles and changing the video thumbnail, control video distribution, prohibit third party embeds, publish to News Feed, and more. Besides the feature to search for videos by title or description, admins can also view and manage secret videos. Facebook says all these features would be available to all in the coming weeks.
Facebook Messenger Now Available for All Non-Facebook Users
Facebook last month enabled users without an account to sign up for its Messenger app with just a phone number. The feature was then only available in Canada, the United States, Peru, and Venezuela. However, with the company's latest announcement, the sign-up access is now available globally.
David Marcus from the Facebook Messenger team on Thursday posted an image showing the feature, on his account, stating "Excited to announce that the ability for everyone to use Messenger, even without a Facebook account, is now available globally. Sign up with your phone number and try it out!"
With the latest update, users would now see an option stating "Not on Facebook?" on the welcome screen of Messenger. Tapping on the option gives users the sign-up page where they would have to feed their name, phone numbers and an account image. The users would get the same features like with those who already have a Facebook account and are using Messenger.
The social media website has lately been treating its messaging app as a separate platform altogether. Last month the app got its first Draw Something video game, which the users can play by accessing the three-dot 'More' option in the app. In May, the company also rolled out the video calling ability inside the app. In the same month Facebook also announced the a system to send money to friends for US customers, using the standalone app. The feature has not yet reached other regions as of yet. The firm would be using debit cards for cash transfers, a process which may take days to complete a transaction.
Facebook Defends Internet.org, Says It's a Gateway not a Gatekeeper
"Internet.org acts as a gateway, as opposed to a gatekeeper, to Internet access by breaking down the cost, infrastructure and social barriers that exist today," FacebookVice-President for Mobile and Global Access Policy Kevin Martin said in a statement.
The government panel discussed Facebook's Internet.org while preparing the report and found that it provided free access for only a few websites until April 2015.
"Facebook's role as gatekeeper in determining what websites were in that list was seen as violating net neutrality," the panel said, adding that "collaborations between telecom operators and content providers that enable such gate-keeping role to be played by any entity should be actively discouraged".
Martin said that Facebook strongly supports network neutrality and the DoTCommittee's recognition of the importance of network neutrality in preserving innovation.
"We appreciate the points raised about gatekeepers to the Internet and agree with the Committee that we must ensure the Internet remain an open and neutral platform for expression and innovation," Martin said.
Net neutrality implies that equal treatment be accorded to all Internet traffic and no priority be given to an entity or company based on payment to content or service providers such as telecom companies, which is seen as discriminatory.
The neutrality debate gained momentum in India after telecom operator Airtel launched a platform, Airtel Zero, that would allow free access of some websites on it network. The companies were asked to pay Airtel for joining the platform.
Internet.org, on the other hand, is a Facebook-led initiative which aims to bring 5 billion people online in partnership with tech giants like Samsung and Qualcomm as well as mobile operators.
Facebook later opened up the Internet.org for all websites that could follow certain technical parameters. In India, it had tied up with Reliance Communications.
"The preservation of the core principles of net neutrality and the promotion of innovation and infrastructure within the context of India's Internet access challenges are critical to bringing more people online," Martin said.
Facebook also sought no regulation for Internet-based calling services known as VoIPcalls. "The Committee recognised that regulatory requirements should not be placed on certain OTT application services... That same rational should apply to all VoIP services. All telecommunications and taxation policies should promote competition, spur innovation, and foster increased connectivity," Martin said.
Facebook subsidiary WhatsApp recently started VoIP call facility. The government panel has suggested regulation only for Internet applications that provide communication services like telecom operators offer.
Facebook Music Streaming Service Tipped to Rival Apple Music, Spotify
The report by Music Ally ties in with reports from last week that said Facebook has been in talks with major music labels, such as Sony Music, Universal Music, and Warner Music. Music Ally adds that the audio music streaming service is in the initial stages of development but according to the unnamed source the social networking giant is only a few months away from the official launch of its ad-supported native videos, and music videos will benefit the most from this move.
An all-audio music streaming service is said to be in the works for a later launch, and then Facebook would be in direct competition with giants like Spotify, Pandora, and now Apple Music. The first phase will apparently see Facebook paying royalties for the artists who hold the rights to content. And it is being speculated that Facebook will be launching a system similar to YouTube's Content ID to help the artists either take down or 'claim' those user-uploaded videos which features their music (content). Apparently, Facebook will match YouTube's per-stream rates.
One source told Music Ally, "It's a mass land grab. Facebook going into the video space was always going to be an enormous, ambitious land grab and no doubt something they've been planning for some time as the potential income from ad revenue will be incredible."
Now the question is will Facebook, which has been spending heaps of money to acquire companies like WhatsApp, Oculus and Instagram, create its now streaming service or buy one?
Facebook Makes It Easier to Tweak What You See in Your Feed
New tools will help you weed through the clutter of boring, unwanted information, often from long-forgotten acquaintances, and surface the gems from close friends and interesting pages.
You'll now be able to choose the friends and pages you want to see on your news feed first.
To do this, go to the friend's profile. Click on the box that says "following" and select "see first."
Facebook's computer software uses a wide range of information you provide to decide what to show. This includes what friends you interact with and how often, or whether you tend to like photos, videos or text updates more.
In announcing the new tools Thursday, Facebook acknowledged that its automated system isn't perfect, so it wants to give users a way to set their own preferences.
For the rest, though, Facebook will continue to use its software to choose what to show you. So unless you want to see someone's posts all the time or not at all, you're stuck with what you've got.
The update is available Thursday on iPhones and iPads and is being rolled out in the coming weeks to Android phones and personal computers.
