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Best travel apps for iPhone and iPad June 2015
Summer is here in most parts of the world, but regardless of the temperature or weather out there, vacation season has arrived. As such, many iOS users are starting to look for apps that they would like to have during this period. Vacations are complicated, can be confusing and on occasion, can turn out badly for all participants. We’ve made a selection of the best travel apps for iPhone and iPad so that all you thrill-seekers and vacation-goers can have a collection of apps that will come in handy while you’re trekking in unknown places around the world.
There are many travel apps for iPhone and iPad available on iTunes, so many in fact that it is sometimes confusing to comb through them all and find the most necessary travel apps that you will actually make use of on vacation.Travel apps can be apps that help you find accommodation, transport, venues, parties, restaurants and places to visits, but also apps that help you minimize the amount of time you spend on your iPhone or iPad, apps that will keep your iPhone alive while you travel by a run-down train, apps to safekeep information and even your iPhone or iPad and many more. Categorization of travel apps for iPhone and iPad is an arduous task which I am not about take on, since it’s raining.
Without further ado, let’s see which are the best travel apps for iPhone and iPad that every cross-country or worldwide traveler should keep in handy. Feel free to bookmark this article or the apps that we link to in iTunes, because you might find yourself needing these apps in the near future. Let the vacation season begin! Have a wonderful time, dear readers!
BeachPro
This is one of those travel apps for iPhone and iPad that is a niche product, because it’s for surfers. Ahh, surfers, lovers of the extreme, facers of danger, they have no fear. But they might be happy to find out about this app, though! Although it won’t help with shark attacks that much, it will help plan the best ever surfing trip that one could imagine. With BeachPro, you can view detailed location and beach reports, as well as surf reports, wave heights for the next week, tide times and weather information, straight from the app. Moreover, you can also get GPS instruction on location and access over 5000 different beaches and their information from across the globe. You can also set the wave height that you want to surf, and the app will alert you when it predicts optimal surfing conditions. The best part: it’s free. You can get it from iTunes anytime.
KeyRing
This one is probably one of the most interesting and useful travel apps for iPhone and iPad that we’ve come across, and it’s completely free. What Key Ring does is collect all the loyalty card information that you have, and wish to take with you on your trip, and keeps it neat and organized within its interface. Thus, it mostly eliminates the need for a wallet when going sunbathing or surfing. Once again, surfers might appreciate this app, seeing as all that they need to carry with them to the beach would be their iPhone. With the app, you can hold all your loyalty and discount card information as well as benefit from more. You can create shopping lists which you can share with your tripping buddies, so that you can share items and not spend too much money on supplies. Moreover, KeyRing has a huge database of loyalty, discount, coupon and deal cards at your service. Did I mention it was free in the iTunes store and it’s one of the must have travel apps this year?
Toilet Finder
Funny name, makes you think that it’s not what it seems like. But finding toilets is what this app actually does. This might be one of the weirdest travel apps that we’ve come across, but its purpose is truly useful. With the Toilet Finder app, which is free in the iTunes store, you can actually find free toilet facilities on beaches all around the world. You can actually rate such facilities based on your experience, and sort them according to who they cater to. For example, there are categories to find handicapped-accessible free toilet facilities on the beach that you’re on. Although I almost never use public restrooms, Toilet Finder might give me confidence, since most listed places have user feedback and ratings available, so that you can go to a 5 star toilet, which is free, if you like. Although it doesn’t sound as useful as you would think, Toilet Finder could possible be one of the most practical travel apps for iOS out there.
Triposo
We came across Triposo thanks to Photo Tribune, and have to believe that it’s possible the best guide there is for iPhone and iPad. Triposo is a smart travel guide which aggregates a lot of facilities from around the world and helps you plan your vacation’s every small detail in one neat-looking mobile iOS app. Triposo lets you book transportation tickets and pay for them straight from the app, but it also lets you plan the places you’re going to visit, book hotel rooms that you’re going to stay in and it actually provides audio and written guides to take you through the most notable attractions of a city, province, country or village. You can access these audio tours even offline, although you do have to download the database before you leave to make sure you have it. That feature will come in handy in places where you don’t have a signal or when there’s no Wi-Fi and you don’t want massive charges on your bill by the time you arrive home from your wonderful vacation. The app is free in the iTunes app store. Continue reading for more excellent, must-have travel apps for iPhone and iPad on the next page.
Google is getting ready to make a big change to how its Chrome browser works. This is because new browsers from startups like Arc are making the market more competitive. The company said on Wednesday that it will be adding a new feature called “Minimized Custom Tabs” that will let users tap to switch between a native app and their web content. When you do this, the Custom Tab turns into a small window that floats above the content of the native app.
The new feature is all about using Custom Tabs, which is a feature in Android browsers that lets app developers make their own browser experience right in their app. Users don’t have to open their browser or a WebView, which doesn’t support all of the web platform’s features. Custom tabs let users stay in their app while browsing. Custom tabs can help developers keep users in their apps longer and keep them from leaving and never coming back.
If you make the Custom Tab into a picture-in-picture window, switching to the web view might feel more natural, like you’re still in the native app. People who send their customers to a website to sign up for accounts or subscriptions might also find this change useful, since it makes it easier for users to switch between the website and the native app.
After being shrunk down to the picture-in-picture window, the Custom Tab can be pushed to the side of the screen. Users can tap on a down arrow to bring the page back to the picture-in-picture window when it is full screen.
The new web experience comes at a time when Google is making it easier for Android users to connect to the web. People can find their way to the web with AI-powered features like Circle to Search and other integrations that let them do things like circle or highlight items.
The change is coming to the newest version of Chrome (M124), and developers who already use Chrome’s Custom Tabs will see it automatically. Google says that the change only affects Chrome browsers, but it hopes that other browser makers will add changes like these.
Meta’s latest social network, Threads, is launching its own fact-checking initiative after leveraging Instagram and Facebook’s networks for a brief period.
Adam Mosseri, the CEO of Instagram, stated that the company has recently implemented a feature that allows fact-checkers to assess and label false content on threads. Nevertheless, Mosseri refrained from providing specific information regarding the exact timing of the program’s implementation and whether it was restricted to certain geographical regions.
The fact-checking partners for Threads—which organizations are affiliated with Meta—are not clearly specified. We have requested additional information from the company and will revise the story accordingly upon receiving a response.
The upcoming U.S. elections appear to be the main driving force behind the decision. India is currently in the midst of its general elections. However, it is improbable that a social network would implement a fact-checking program specifically during an election cycle rather than initiating the project prior to the elections.
In December, Meta announced its intention to implement the fact-checking program on Threads.
“At present, we align the fact-check ratings from Facebook or Instagram with Threads. However, our objective is to empower fact-checking partners to evaluate and assign ratings to misinformation on the application,” Mosseri stated in a post during that period.
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Mark Zuckerberg reports that Threads has a total of 150 million users who engage with the app on a monthly basis
Threads, Meta’s alternative to Twitter and X, is experiencing consistent and steady growth. During the Q1 2024 earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg stated that the social network currently has over 150 million monthly active members, which is an increase from 130 million in February.
Threads made significant progress in integrating with ActivityPub, the decentralized protocol that powers networks such as Mastodon, during the last quarterly earnings conference. In March, the firm granted U.S.-based users who are 18 years of age or older the ability to link their accounts to the Fediverse, enabling their posts to be seen on other servers.
By June, the business intends to make its API available to a broad range of developers, enabling them to create experiences centered on the social network. Nevertheless, it remains uncertain whether Threads will enable developers to create comprehensive third-party clients.
Meta just introduced their AI chatbot on various platforms like Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. Threads was conspicuously omitted from this list, perhaps because of its lack of built-in direct messaging capabilities.
Threads introduced a new test feature on Wednesday that allows users to automatically archive their posts after a certain length of time. Additionally, users have the ability to store or remove specific postings from an archive and make them accessible to the public.
Threads is around nine months old, and Meta has consistently expanded its readership. Nevertheless, Threads cannot be considered a viable substitute for X, as Instagram’s head, Adam Mosseri, explicitly stated in October that Threads will not “amplify news on the platform.” However, Meta’s social network continues to grow in popularity. According to app analytics company Apptopia, Threads now has more daily active users in the U.S. than X, as Business Insider reported earlier this week.
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