News Reporter
Jon Porter is a news reporter, video presenter, and Capricorn. Part of The Verge's UK-based team, his primary focuses are European consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and video games. Oh, and mechanical keyboards. Lots of mechanical keyboards.
Porter started his career covering audio and TV equipment for TechRadar and has also written for Gizmodo UK, Kotaku UK, T3, Trusted Reviews, and Real Homes. He has been interviewed on national and international TV and radio, including on BBC World News, the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4, ABC, CBC, and more. He currently lives in South London.
Are you’re using an older Samsung device and jealously eying up the Galaxy AI features available with this year’s phones? Well good news; Samsung has started rolling out its AI-equipped One UI 6.1 update to the Galaxy S23, S23 FE, Z Flip 5, and Z Fold 5, starting today. SamMobile reports that the update has arrived for Verizon devices in the US, and unlocked devices will follow next month.
Thanks to the Digital Markets Act, Meta is gearing up to allow WhatsApp and Messenger to send and receive messages from other services. We’ve already seen screenshots of how the feature might look thanks to WABetaInfo, and now TheSpAndroid has gone one better with a video of the onboarding process, and also reports that WhatsApp could soon offer new AI-powered image editing tools; backdrop, restyle, and expand.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that WhatsApp is rolling out the option to pin as many as three messages to the top of a chat, up from the single message that’s been possible to pin since late last year. According to WABetaInfo, which previously spotted the feature in beta, Meta is already working on the option of pinning even more.
