Ever since Apple introduced the iPhone 6 Plus, fans of FiftyThree’s iPad drawing app Paper have been clamoring for its release on iPhone. Now, just ahead of the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus’ official release in stores, FiftyThree has brought Paper to iPhone. The iPhone version of Paper works just like the original iPad app, but it’s designed specifically for the smaller screen. The end result is an amazing digital notebook that doubles as a scrapbook and canvas. You can jot down notes, sketch out ideas, create a digital masterpiece, annotate photos, and make diagrams.
You can categorize your sketches and place them in different “Spaces,” so if you’ve got a selection of notes for a particular project or class, you can keep them all in one Space. Each Space is private by default, but you can always share your ideas on Mix, FiftyThree’s creative community and artistic social network. Paper on iPhone is the ultimate note-taking and sketching app, and it’s the first that can more or less replace your Moleskin notebook. Any doodles, notes, diagrams, or lists you’d normally pop in a small paper notebook can be created and stored in Paper. Now that it’s in your iPhone and not your iPad, Paper is an even better notebook — it’s more portable, and you’re almost 100 percent guaranteed to carry it with you every day.
The only thing you’ll need to bring along is your stylus, and while FiftyThree’s Pencil is still a great option, Adonit has many small, portable styli that work almost as well with Paper. In our brief tests of the app, we found that a more finely tipped stylus worked best with Paper on the iPhone, just because of the smaller screen.
Paper will obviously continue to work on the iPad, too, and now that the iPad Pro is coming, it’ll likely see a lot more use from a wide variety of users. The iPhone version is for note-takers and sketchers on the go, while the iPad app is for those who want to sit down and create on a big screen. If you’re interested in Paper, you can download it on the iOS App Store.
Two new highly requested iCloud plugins just got added to ChatGPT, giving people who rely on Apple’s Mail and Calendar services a way to search emails, check appointments, and manage their schedules directly through the chatbot.
The integration is rolling out to all ChatGPT plans, including the free tier. You can access it on the web, desktop, and iOS.
Google Play is borrowing one of the Nintendo Switch’s most useful little tricks. A new Sidekick tool called Playbacks captures a short clip after something interesting has already happened, sparing players from running a screen recorder throughout an entire game.
Playbacks is part of Google Play Store v53.8 and keeps saved clips on the phone. Google first announced it earlier this month, but the new Play Store update marks its arrival for players. Anyone who has watched a perfect win vanish because the record button came too late already understands the appeal.
Samsung’s scandal over its Game Optimizing Service, or GOS, has returned with a bill attached. South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission has tentatively fined the company 20.1 billion won, or about $15.1 million, over gaming claims made for the Galaxy S21, Galaxy S22, and Tab S8.
The regulator says Samsung promoted the devices as gaming powerhouses without disclosing that GOS placed preset CPU and GPU limits on certain demanding games. Samsung disputes that conclusion, calling GOS a legitimate way to manage heat.