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Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority T-Mobile disabled self-service SIM card changes in 2022 to implement new security measures against SIM swap attacks. Although the carrier initially said this was a temporary change, T-Mobile subscribers are still required to contact support to change SIM cards. A new report suggests that T-Mobile may finally enable self-service SIM swaps via the T-Life app later this month. T-Mobile currently requires subscribers to contact support or visit a nearby retail store for SIM card changes. Unlike Verizon and AT&T, the carrier does not offer a self-service option for SIM swaps. However, this hasn’t always been the case. T-Mobile removed the self-service option for SIM card changes in 2022 to implement new security features to combat SIM swap attacks. At the time, the company did not share a timeline for when the feature could return, but it reportedly told employees that it was only a temporary change. Over two and a half years later, the self-service option still isn’t available for users, but that could change soon.

Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Google is shutting down Assistant on Fitbit smartwatches “over the next few weeks.” Users will no longer be able to use Assistant for voice control. Amazon Alexa will still be available in certain languages and countries. Google has made it clear that the Assistant era is over. The company has been hard a work replacing Assistant with Gemini on phones, but the change is also expected to come to headphones, smartwatches, tablets, and cars. We found evidence of the tech giant preparing for the swap on Wear OS devices back in January. However, Google Assistant won’t just disappear from Wear OS smartwatches; Fitbit smartwatches are also losing the virtual assistant, and that change will start soon. On the Fitbit community forum, an overlooked post from late March announces that Google Assistant on Fitbit is coming to an end in the next few weeks. As the moderator explains:

Spotify is currently down for many users. Issues started earlier this morning, and the company has since acknowledged them. Spotify appears to have server problems, and even its status page is returning errors. Having trouble concentrating this morning but can’t quite put your finger on what’s wrong? Does the world just seem a little quieter than it used to? You’re not imagining things, as a widespread Spotify outage appears to be seriously impacting availability of the music streaming service. You know that the situation is bad when a company’s own status page is itself generating an error message, as is the case with Spotify’s right now. Over on Reddit, threads going back about an hour now describe users being unable to access Spotify streams, and on X Spotify confirmed at 8:45a ET that it was “aware of some issues right now and … checking them out.”

Spotify is currently down for many users. Issues started earlier this morning, and the company has since acknowledged them. Spotify appears to have server problems, and even its status page is returning errors. Having trouble concentrating this morning but can’t quite put your finger on what’s wrong? Does the world just seem a little quieter than it used to? You’re not imagining things, as a widespread Spotify outage appears to be seriously impacting availability of the music streaming service. You know that the situation is bad when a company’s own status page is itself generating an error message, as is the case with Spotify’s right now. Over on Reddit, threads going back about an hour now describe users being unable to access Spotify streams, and on X Spotify confirmed at 8:45a ET that it was “aware of some issues right now and … checking them out.”

Spotify is currently down for many users. Issues started earlier this morning, and the company has since acknowledged them. Spotify appears to have server problems, and even its status page is returning errors. Having trouble concentrating this morning but can’t quite put your finger on what’s wrong? Does the world just seem a little quieter than it used to? You’re not imagining things, as a widespread Spotify outage appears to be seriously impacting availability of the music streaming service. You know that the situation is bad when a company’s own status page is itself generating an error message, as is the case with Spotify’s right now. Over on Reddit, threads going back about an hour now describe users being unable to access Spotify streams, and on X Spotify confirmed at 8:45a ET that it was “aware of some issues right now and … checking them out.”

Spotify is currently down for many users. Issues started earlier this morning, and the company has since acknowledged them. Spotify appears to have server problems, and even its status page is returning errors. Having trouble concentrating this morning but can’t quite put your finger on what’s wrong? Does the world just seem a little quieter than it used to? You’re not imagining things, as a widespread Spotify outage appears to be seriously impacting availability of the music streaming service. You know that the situation is bad when a company’s own status page is itself generating an error message, as is the case with Spotify’s right now. Over on Reddit, threads going back about an hour now describe users being unable to access Spotify streams, and on X Spotify confirmed at 8:45a ET that it was “aware of some issues right now and … checking them out.”

Spotify is currently down for many users. Issues started earlier this morning, and the company has since acknowledged them. Spotify appears to have server problems, and even its status page is returning errors. Having trouble concentrating this morning but can’t quite put your finger on what’s wrong? Does the world just seem a little quieter than it used to? You’re not imagining things, as a widespread Spotify outage appears to be seriously impacting availability of the music streaming service. You know that the situation is bad when a company’s own status page is itself generating an error message, as is the case with Spotify’s right now. Over on Reddit, threads going back about an hour now describe users being unable to access Spotify streams, and on X Spotify confirmed at 8:45a ET that it was “aware of some issues right now and … checking them out.”

Spotify is currently down for many users. Issues started earlier this morning, and the company has since acknowledged them. Spotify appears to have server problems, and even its status page is returning errors. Having trouble concentrating this morning but can’t quite put your finger on what’s wrong? Does the world just seem a little quieter than it used to? You’re not imagining things, as a widespread Spotify outage appears to be seriously impacting availability of the music streaming service. You know that the situation is bad when a company’s own status page is itself generating an error message, as is the case with Spotify’s right now. Over on Reddit, threads going back about an hour now describe users being unable to access Spotify streams, and on X Spotify confirmed at 8:45a ET that it was “aware of some issues right now and … checking them out.”

Spotify is currently down for many users. Issues started earlier this morning, and the company has since acknowledged them. Spotify appears to have server problems, and even its status page is returning errors. Having trouble concentrating this morning but can’t quite put your finger on what’s wrong? Does the world just seem a little quieter than it used to? You’re not imagining things, as a widespread Spotify outage appears to be seriously impacting availability of the music streaming service. You know that the situation is bad when a company’s own status page is itself generating an error message, as is the case with Spotify’s right now. Over on Reddit, threads going back about an hour now describe users being unable to access Spotify streams, and on X Spotify confirmed at 8:45a ET that it was “aware of some issues right now and … checking them out.”

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Whatsapp is working on new music layouts for status updates. These layouts aim to make music sharing more visually appealing. The upcoming layouts would be similar to music options already available on Instagram stories. WhatsApp‘s status feature is a very popular way to share updates with friends, family, and your entire contact list. While certainly useful, it does lag behind in functionality compared to the status/stories feature from Meta’s other offerings, like Instagram. For instance, Instagram users have a multitude of ways to add music to their story updates, whereas WhatsApp users only recently got their first way to do so. Thankfully, it seems that WhatsApp does want to catch up, as we’ve spotted multiple different music layouts in the works for status updates.