Pinterest rolls out widget for iOS 14

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For iPhone owners who love using Pinterest, the app will be bringing you inspiration right from your home screen. The company has started rolling out its widget for iOS 14. If you want it to show your favourite board or person you follow, long-press on the widget and select the Edit Widget option. It can update the tile daily or hourly, depending on your preference.

You can only show one board per widget. But according to the company, the boards with sections will have all its content appear. And in case you haven't noticed, you can have multiple Pinterest widgets on your home screen. According to Gizmodo, Pinterest is “exploring more functionalities for the future.”

Pinterest gets ahead of coronavirus misinformation with custom search results

Pinterest hopes to keep misinformation about the coronavirus (COVID-19) at bay with a new "custom search experience." The company's goal is that it gives you reliable information about the epidemic. When this experience is put in place, searching for terms like "coronavirus" and "COVID-19" will surface curated pins from the World Health Organization, like how to protect yourself and other questions and information you will need to know about the illness. 

The company also told The Verge it would remove any misinformation it finds about the coronavirus since it violates its health misinformation policy.

Pinterest redesigns mobile feed, makes it look similar to Instagram’s feed

If you look at Pinterest’s feed on mobile right now, it looks pretty similar to Instagram. Instead of showing a pin board of images, the focus now is on single images shown as a column of posts. There are even horizontal rows of Pinterest-recommended accounts you can follow. Unlike Instagram though, it retains a chronological feed. You can also still save images to your board or tap on the image to redirect to the linked out piece where the image is from. While this moves away from Pinterest’s standard look, it does make sense for users who are trying to look at images on this image-based service. The update is coming to mobile users worldwide

Source: The Verge

Pinterest can now help you search for images by skin tone

A new feature Pinterest is rolling out in beta will make it easier for you to search for looks you want to achieve. When you filter hair and beauty searches, it can be refined further by skin tone ranges. This new feature comes after the social media platform found that 70 percent of the people who answered its survey used Pinterest to look for everyday looks and styles. It took a bit of work to get this feature right as lighting, shadows, and other factors were needed to be considered when programming its search filters to identify skin tones. Pinterest tapped third-party beauty app ModiFace and its facial data library to train its algorithms to properly identify skin tones in different lighting conditions. The social media platform promises that when users search for skin tones that information will not be stored or be used for advertising purposes. And Pinterest promises to continue developing this feature as well as other more inclusive search options for its users in order for them to get more personalized results.

Source: The Verge