Last week, at a company event in New York City, Instagram unveiled Direct, a private-messaging feature for its popular photo-sharing platform. The press was quick to compare it to competing social ...

You know that little icon you see when you pull down the screen to refresh a page on just about every mobile app on the market? What you might not have known is that Loren Brichter, founder of Atebits ...

Twitter announced today that they have been granted a patent for the popular pull-to-refresh gesture that you see in many mobile apps. However, as a part of the company's new Innovator's Patent ...

Loren Brichter, the developer behind Tweetie and its hugely popular pull-to-refresh gesture, which has now made its way into countless iOS apps, has spoken out about Twitter’s recent move to patent ...

Like that “pull-to-refresh” feature found in many popular iOS apps, including Twitter, Facebook, Tweetbot, Sparrow and others? Been wondering why Apple hasn’t implemented the same thing in its own ...

Chrome on Chromebooks and Windows-2-in-1 devices is on its way to becoming more like its sibling on mobile. As lucasban has posted on Reddit, the pull-to-refresh gesture is now available on the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast. Twitter was just ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

After a long week of tips on how to make your Mac look more like iOS, how about a tip on how to make it ACT more like iOS? On the iPhone, it’s become de rigueur to use a tap and pull to refresh motion ...

When it first arrived in iPhone apps, the simple "pull to refresh" action was instantly hailed as a genius bit of user interaction engineering. Now developer Wayne Pan has created the same behavior in ...