Instagram might soon offer subscriptions for users to support creators on the platform

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Instagram might be the latest social platform to offer a new subscription option to support creators. Analytics firms Sensor Tower and Apptopia spotted a recent change on the Instagram app listing on iOS. There's a new in-app purchases option named "Instagram Subscriptions," with prices ranging from US$0.99 to $4.99.

Instagram hasn't mentioned what this feature will be, but the Meta-owned company has been working on ways to monetize its platform while offering its creators a way to earn on the app. Earlier this year, the company mentioned that it was working on "Exclusive Stories," which will be a paid feature, so that might be part of this subscription option. If it's shown up on Instagram's app, we might be hearing more about this sooner rather than later.

Source: 9to5Mac

Calm launches family plan for six people

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If you want your meditation and mindfulness practice to extend to your family and other loved ones, you can now avail yourself of Calm's new family plan. It supports up to six accounts. In the US, it costs US$99.99 a year (around CA$125). As with family plans on other services, each profile will remain private to each user. So, sessions, stats, check-ins, and additional personal information of the individual users won't be viewable to other members.

The plan gives you access to Calm's whole content library, including gratitude and mood check-ins, sleep stories, hundreds of guided meditations, and more. Calm decided to add this tier after receiving feedback from its users. It was supposedly the top requested feature from the app's users.

Source: Mashable

Update on Monday, November 8, 2021 at 9:17PM by Nicole Batac

The family plan costs $109.99 in Canada

Twitter for iOS now lets you search within user profiles

Twitter for iOS finally rolls out a new search button on every user profile. This search option is visible in the top right corner of a user's profile. Before this update, you had to manually search for tweets from a user through the main search tab. And you needed to type out "from:" before a user's name and then search for the tweet you want.

This feature is also accessible in your profile. So, if you're looking to surface a specific tweet of yours, this is an easy way to do just that.

Source: 9to5Mac

Netflix's gaming service most likely to offer individual games on iOS

Netflix will most likely need to list each game it's offering on its gaming service as individual apps on the App Store to adhere to Apple's rules, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. The streaming service won't be able to offer an all-in-one experience, as Apple's updated guidelines prevent the app from making it onto the store.

Netflix Games currently operates this way on Android. In areas where the service is being tested, users can browse games on offer via the Netflix app, but they'll be redirected to the Google Play Store to download the apps. And this approach gives us a look at how Netflix might implement its game service on iOS. It is a workable solution, but as Gurman pointed out, it's not an approach that will put Netflix Games "in the best position to succeed."

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