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TECH T@LK

New iOS 16 update from Apple Alert! Your follower count on

brings optimizes car crash Twitter may witness a big dip

detection feature f you witness a drop in your fol-
lower count on Twitter, then
Ifret not. Twitter’s new boss Elon
merican tech giant Apple re- Musk is working on “purging a lot”
cently released the iOS 16.1.2 of spam/scam accounts.
Aupdate for iPhones, and the On Thursday, Musk took to
company is calling out two key fea- his Twitter account and shared the
tures in its patch notes. particular update with everyone.
According to The Verge, these He tweeted, “Twitter is purging a
new updates are “improved com- lot of spam/scam accounts right
patibility with wireless carriers” and now, so you may see your follower limit on a number of occasions since
“Crash Detection optimizations on count drop.” his takeover of the platform, as per
iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro mod- triggered for people safely riding Musk is also planning to up Twit- a report by Mashable. On November
els.” The Crash Detection enhance- rollercoasters. ter’s character limit from 280 to 1000. 27, a Twitter user suggested to Musk
ments could be particularly notable, Based on the vague iOS 16.1.2 A few days ago, a social media to increase the platform’s word limit
as there have been some issues with patch notes, it’s unclear if the update user tagged Musk and tweeted, “ from 280 to 420.
inadvertent activations since the fea- addresses these sorts of mistaken alerts. Idea on expanding character limit “Good idea” Musk wrote in
ture launched. A recent iOS 16.2 beta also in- to 1000.” response. Prior to that, anoth-
The Verge has reported that ac- cludes a feature that allows users to In response, Musk wrote, “It’s er user had suggested “get rid of
cording to a report from The Wall report accidentally activating Emer- on the to-do list.” character limits.”
Street Journal the Crash Detection gency SOS. If the functionality is The character limit has been one “Absolutely”, the multi-billion-
feature is designed to activate Emer- included in the final version of iOS of the prime differences between aire responded.
gency SOS and alert emergency ser- 16.2, the reports may help Apple Twitter and other social media ser- Now it remains to be seen when
vices if it thinks a user has been in reduce the number of unintentional vices. Musk has shown interest in Musk finally makes the changes re-
a car crash but the feature has also alerts in the future, as per The Verge. the idea of increasing the character garding character limit.

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