#android updates

[thinkwithorage]

Android 16 (Baklava) is a user-centric update filled with useful and practical features for everyday use that can improve security, efficiency, and personalization. Android 16 also gives a smarter experience with notifications, with real time tracking, another feature called Advanced Protection Mode for high-risk users, new on-device AI tools such as scam detection and smart photo editing. For the multitasking experience, big (like PC-style) resizable windows for tablets and foldables! Also, Accessibility is better than before with hearing aid compatibilities as well as text readability boosters. Android 16 rounds out with Material You 3 design updates and more dynamic customization to make your device feel more personal. Whether you are using a Pixel or a Samsung, the new capabilities of Android 16 will make your phone more intelligent, secure, and easier to use each day.

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An Update on the Tumblr Android App

For those of you who access Tumblr through our Android app, we wanted to share that starting today you may see some differences for search queries and posts that may contain specific types of sensitive content. In order to comply with Google’s Play Store Guidelines, we have adjusted what you’re able to access as it relates to potentially sensitive content while using the Android app. 

To remain available within Google's Play Store, we have added more measures and limit exposure to potentially sensitive content in order to comply with their guidelines and to provide a safer experience to you. To learn more about Google’s Play Store Guidelines, click here. 

How you may experience these changes

When browsing Tumblr through Dashboard, Search, Communities and other surfaces you might experience less content and some searches might not produce any results unless you enable “show mature content” in Tumblr settings. Please refer to our Help Center article to learn more.

Why these changes are being made

We want to make sure Tumblr is available everywhere you would like to access it. In order for us to remain in Google’s Play Store and for our Tumblr Android app to be available, we needed to make changes that would help us be more compliant with Google’s policies around sensitive content. 

We understand that, for some of you, these changes may be very frustrating – we understand that frustration and we apologize for any disruption that these changes may cause. 

Who this impacts

These changes will only impact those who are accessing Tumblr through the Android app. If you are using our iOS app, accessing Tumblr through mobile web or online through tumblr.com, your experience will remain unchanged.

For more information on our guidelines or to understand these changes more fully, please visit:

Tumblr’s Community Guidelines

Tumblr’s Help Center

[bogkeep]

there's something so deeply dystopian to me how tech companies don't understand that a forced convenience is not a convenience at all. i'm sure autocorrect is helpful for many, but a function that forcibly changes my actual written words and punctuation is taking away my language. photo filters can be nice but i need to choose using them myself or else i have lost the ability to take the picture i want. i don't want a machine to draw or write for me. taking away the option for me to do things manually feels like violence!!!! all this talk of endless opportunity, why are you RESTRICTING me

[akiacia]

bbs 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

[moonarcadia]

& here is my old tablet's weekly update...used Twitter here as well to type yesterday some things so....

[bee-valseveer]

❗❗ANDROID USERS❗❗

Heads up to all android users, google is about to implement AI through A LOT of your google messaging apps, you can't just turn off Gemini, you HAVE TO TURN THIS OFF IN THE APPS SETTINGS THEMSELVES

[sofia-d-asb]

Arcadie: Cold Lands - Progress Update - December 2024

Mobile port!!!

[queeniehostapasta]

Ah yes, small husband and scary (but elegant) wife, my favorite combo

An alt and man I forgot the huge size difference between the two sometimes 😳 but hey I’m not against it!!!

[caiusthecat]

Chrobin Week - Language

Chrom messed with the language settings whoops 😔

[pushing500]

Remember back when we were doing a whole bunch of mysterious brain scans? Well, Alistair is using the persona subcore we got from those scans to build himself a new android friend. I want to see if the "surrounded by androids" mood buff stacks, and androids are very cool in general, so why not?

In between working and clearing memory space at his standing spot, I sent him over to grab a cup of coffee. I always try to keep his mood up; you never know what might be the catalyst for his awakening.

But, you know... he was built by the Jones boys, after all. Of course it was coffee.

Anyway, he's awake!! My boy is sentient at last!!!!!! Welcome to life with clarity and a sense of self, Alistair. We've been waiting for you for so long. He's got the "muscular" trait which means people think he's nice to look at (and by people I mean me), and my Sexuality Traits mod has also decided he's bisexual, which is nice.

I'm so giddy and excited to have him awake at last, and just in time for a new android to join us!! This is so cool!!!!!

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[bobbiedebruyn]

gifmakers and android users for the past two days

[skinside]

okay so, a lot is being said about all the shitty changes on tumblr lately. i've avoided many of these changes by downgrading to older versions of the tumblr app on android. however, there's one drawback i've faced: if you go back too far, you lose polls, one of the only good new features. so i decided to experiment version-by-version to see when certain desirable or undesirable features were added to the apk. unfortunately there's no version with polls but without tumblr live. i've compiled the detailed results here, in order of most recent version number

NOTE: to get old versions of tumblr, use apkmirror.com, which is a trustworthy, reputable source for .apk files, android's package installers. to downgrade your app you need to uninstall it and install an older apk (not necessary for upgrading to a higher version). a list of available apks for tumblr can be found here

TUMBLR .APK VERSION TESTING RESULTS

29.1.0.109

first version with new media viewer. any version before this should be okay in that department. (thanks @weeeeps for finding this!)

27.8.0.109

first version of tumblr apk with polls

still has old style media viewer

still has prev tags aka ability to navigate up reblog chain

unfortunately has tumblr live

27.4.0.12

first version with tumblr live (yuck), any version on apkmirror before this shouldn't have tumblr live

27.0.0.01

last easily installable version without tumblr live

it has the Halloween skeleton icon though

26.8.0.01

last version without tumblr live with a normal icon

**25.9.0.00** —MY PREFERRED VERSION

no tumblr live, no polls, yes old media viewer

last version of app where the "open tumblr links in app" feature functions properly even if the tracker api2.branch.io is blocked by your content blocker

if you use a version later than this, to successfully open a tumblr link from anywhere else on your phone in the you app, you have to unblock api2.branch.io from the ad/content blocker you use, otherwise opening the link in the app will fail. this took me some trial and error to figure out the issue

note: if you don't have an ad/tracker blocker on your phone, I'd recommend Blokada 5 (not 6)

again, disappointingly there isn't a version with polls but without tumblr live. if you want to see a poll you'll either have to share a post containing a poll to a web browser, or just use 27.8.0.109 (or slightly newer) and deal with snoozing tumblr live and having the live button on the navbar, but at least you get the old media viewer and can go up reblog chains again

sometime after the most recent version i tested, the new media player was also added. if anyone wants to test for the last version with the old media player, i can add that to the list as well added :)

if you want a version of the tumblr app with polls that doesn't have live, someone would probably have to mod the apk. i don't know how to do that, but there's modded versions of many popular apps out there, so maybe someone can try and see if that's possible for tumblr. otherwise just keep complaining about the shittiness and maybe staff will go back on the bad changes, though i wouldn't hold my breath on that

oh and if you're on iOS idk what to tell you, you probably have to jailbreak it to downgrade an app

[forty40love]

Hi! I'm autistic, and Discord's latest mobile update is total and utter dogshit. They made it objectively less usable for no discernible reason. I'm here to help you fix that, and revert to the last update.

Disclaimer: I'm on Android, so these instructions are for Android only. If you're on IOS, I know there is a way to do it, but I'm not going to post instructions I haven't tested.

1. **UNINSTALL DISCORD.** This will not work if any user on your phone (probably only one unless you're into more technical stuff than even I am) has a more recent version installed.

2. Disable automatic app updates. If you're doing this, I expect you to already know how this works.

3. Download the APKMirror Installer (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apkmirror.helper.prod&hl=en_US). It will require you to watch an ad when you install the APK, but you can uninstall it after you're done.

4. Download this APK, it's the latest pre-update Discord distribution: (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SSWdpi0Ms7wyHgDSSRqZgY4_G6r_wA0X/view?usp=drivesdk).

5. Use the APKMirror app to install the APK.

6. You're done! Launch it and log in. Feel free to uninstall APKMirror Installer and delete the APK file from your storage at this point, as you will not need them.

If you want to re-enable auto-updates for other things, follow these instructions in the app store:

- Enable aeroplane mode.

- Re-enable auto-updates of your choice (usually WiFi only).

- Navigate to the Discord app's settings in the app store.

- Disable Discord app's auto-update check box.

- Turn off aeroplane mode.

That's about it! Don't forget to leave them a negative review. If we can get a reversion of this update, that's the best outcome. Stay beautiful people.

[newspatron]

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Ein Update zur Tumblr-Android-App

Für diejenigen unter euch, die Tumblr über unsere Android-App aufrufen, gibt es ab heute einige Änderungen bei Suchanfragen und Einträgen, die bestimmte Arten von sensiblen Inhalten enthalten können. Um die Google Play Store-Richtlinien einzuhalten, haben wir die Zugriffsmöglichkeiten auf potenziell sensible Inhalte bei der Nutzung der Android-App angepasst.

Damit die App weiterhin im Google Play Store verfügbar bleibt, haben wir weitere Maßnahmen ergriffen und die Exposition gegenüber potenziell sensiblen Inhalten eingeschränkt, um die Richtlinien von Google einzuhalten und das Nutzungserlebnis sicherer zu gestalten. Hier geht es zu den Richtlinien des Google Play Store

Wie diese Änderungen aussehen können

Wenn du Tumblr über das Dashboard, die Suche, die Communitys und andere Oberflächen durchsuchst, werden möglicherweise weniger Inhalte angezeigt und einige Suchanfragen liefern vielleicht keine Ergebnisse, es sei denn, du aktivierst in den Tumblr-Einstellungen die Option „Inhalt für Erwachsene anzeigen“. Weitere Informationen findest du in unserem Hilfeartikel (EN).

Warum diese Änderungen vorgenommen werden

Wir möchten sicherstellen, dass Tumblr überall dort verfügbar ist, wo du darauf zugreifen möchtest. Damit wir weiterhin im Google Play Store vertreten sind und unsere Tumblr-Android-App verfügbar bleibt, mussten wir Änderungen vornehmen, die uns dabei helfen, die Richtlinien von Google in Bezug auf sensible Inhalte besser einzuhalten.

Wir verstehen, dass diese Änderungen für einige sehr frustrierend sein können. Wir verstehen diese Frustration und möchten uns für alle Unannehmlichkeiten entschuldigen, die diese Änderungen möglicherweise verursachen.

Wen betrifft das?

Diese Änderungen betreffen nur diejenigen, die Tumblr über die Android-App aufrufen. Wenn du unsere iOS-App verwendest, über das mobile Web auf Tumblr zugreifst oder online über tumblr.com, bleibt alles beim Alten.

Weitere Informationen zu unseren Richtlinien oder zu diesen Änderungen findest du hier:

Community-Richtlinien

Hilfecenter (EN)