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Apps need to support device displays if people actually want to enjoy them, but sometimes the rollout takes time or leads to more issues. For example, let’s take a look at YouTube. Despite the fact that Apple launched the 11- and 12.9-inch in late 2018, here we are in January of 2019 and YouTube is finally rolling out support for the newest Apple-branded tablets. That’s not the quickest turnaround, but better late than never, right? It’s not all good news, either. It’s been confirmed that the new version of the app has an issue, namely that the Home indicator actually blocks the bottom row of icons: Good news: YouTube's been updated for the new iPad Pros. 🙌 Bad news: They forgot about the home indicator. 👀 pic.twitter.com/BZuD1rxkpK — Ryan Christoffel (@iryantldr) January 14, 2019 That’s certainly not great! Hopefully YouTube has another update planned to address this issue. Meanwhile, the Facebook-owned Instagram has updated its app as well, br...

Facebook’s Stories feature, which was a grasp at trying to steal folks away from the Snapchat platform, might be getting quite a bit more useful in the coming months. As detailed by The Verge , Facebook is planning on testing a brand new feature within Stories that will focus on live events, and making it easier to “meet up with friends IRL”. (Do people say IRL anymore?) The social network will be testing the new Stories feature in the United States, Brazil, and Mexico, and it will be available for iOS and Android users when it goes live. There is no word on a public launch, though, so that may still be a ways out. This new Stories feature will make it easy to share specific details of an incoming live event with your friends and family. Folks will be able to see who wants to go and is planning on showing up. And since this is based in Stories, there are stickers that people will be able to tap and get more information about the event. The stickers will let viewers cho...

The current feed in Instagram is vertical, and it has been that way since day one. But it looks like a change may be coming, so batten down the hatches. We’ve actually seen Instagram working on this sort of thing for awhile now, with hints that the company was working on the ability to tap from one image, and ad, to another, rather than scrolling. And now it looks like the feature, which brings a horizontal feed to users, is rolling out to more people out there in the wild beginning today. This will make Instagram’s standard feed look a bit familiar for folks who use Stories a lot. You’ll see a bar at the top of the screen to show you how far along you are in the new images and posts you need to see from the people you follow. Comments will be more prominent, too, as each individual photo/video collection will take up the whole screen now. At the time of publication it looks like some users are seeing their feeds reverted back to the standard vertical feed, while othe...