Skip to main content
  1. Home
  2. Social Media
  3. News

Twitter to update iPhone app with slew of new features in iOS 6: report

Andrew Couts
By
Image used with permission by copyright holder

Nothing we’re about to report will shock you much — but it is something to look forward to, if you’re a big fan of Twitter’s own app for iPhone. According to Mark Gurman at 9to5Mac, Twitter will overhaul its iPhone app to version 4.3 in Apple’s forthcoming iOS 6 mobile operating system. The changes, which include “more interactive” features in tweets, notification upgrades, and performance enhancements, were reportedly discovered in notes for the Twitter app while perusing the redesigned iOS 6 App Store.

Here is a list of all the changes expected in v4.3 of Twitter’s iPhone app, according to the app’s notes: 

  • Discover more interactive experiences inside any tweet: when you view details containing links to partner websites, you can now see content previews, view images, play videos and more
  • Special experience around selected events: we’ll curate accounts and surface the best tweets and photos from the those [sic] involved
  • Improvements to autocomplete suggestions when you search for people in Connect
  • Push Notifications for tweets: you can know immediately when selected people  you follow have tweeted
  • Ambient notifications: enables you to see brief non-interruptive notifications in the status bar while you are using the app
  • Discover: no indicates when new stories are available for the user to load
  • Trends: support for personalized trends
  • Tappable avatars that take you directly to user profiles
  • Performance improvements
  • Support for password entry in app when experiencing authentication issues
  • Hungarian language support
  • Updated with new Twitter bird [logo]
  • Many other tweaks, polish, and bug and crasher fixes 
Recommended Videos

So, there  you have it. Based on a couple of spelling mistakes, and the “many other tweaks” line at the end, it’s clear that this is nothing if not a complete list, ready for the public. (Not that it should be, of course. This is after all a kind of leak, meaning none of us were supposed to see it.) Still, the changes mentioned seem good, and fall in line with Twitter’s increasing attempts to tighten down its hold on its service. Are the updates enough to draw people away from other third-party clients? Well, that’s for you all to decide.

Editors' Recommendations

Topics
Andrew Couts
Andrew Couts
Former Digital Trends Contributor
Features Editor for Digital Trends, Andrew Couts covers a wide swath of consumer technology topics, with particular focus on…
Facebook says iOS 14’s new privacy tools could harm its ad business
apple ios 14 beta hands on review siri icon

Apple has made it even more difficult for developers to mine your data on iOS 14. One of the new additions prevents advertisers from covertly tracking you across nearly all apps and websites, and Facebook, for one, is not looking forward to it.

On Facebook’s second-quarter follow-up earnings call, David Wehner, the company’s chief financial officer, called the forthcoming update a “headwind” and said it will “make it harder for app developers and others to grow using ads on Facebook and, really, outside of Apple, to some extent.”

Read more
iOS 14 camera indicator turns on when browsing Instagram; bug fix on the way
instagram interactions likes comments drop decrease

The security features of Apple's iOS 14 revealed unexpected behavior with the Facebook-owned Instagram app, a fix for which is on the way after being declared a bug.

The iOS 14, which is still in public beta, issues notifications whenever an app is accessing certain iPhone components. This is apparently the case with Instagram, as reports claimed that the camera indicator is turning on while using the app, even when just browsing through feeds and not taking photos.

Read more
The best Twitter apps for iOS and Android
Hand holding a Twitter phone

In a little over a decade, Twitter evolved from a simple microblogging platform to a communications powerhouse that now -- for better or worse -- charts the course of history. Twitter is used by governments, corporations, and press outlets, as well as gossipers and jokesters, to push influence, share cat pictures, and everything in between.

But no matter what you use Twitter for, if you want to use it on the go, you're going to need an app. While Twitter's official app is good (and included below), it isn't the only option available, and some apps offer features the original doesn't. Here are a few of our favorite Twitter clients for iOS and Android.
Twitter

Read more