Twitter-owned live-broadcasting app,Periscope, was updated in the App Store last evening with half a dozen new features and refinements aimed at improving the usefulness of video replays whilst improving content discovery with new tools such as an-all new Trending section to help you find content from popular broadcasters.
Pericope also has a tvOS app for the new Apple TV and recently refreshed the iPhone version withmuting, Handoff support,instant replays, finding location-enabled broadcasts,verified badges, Follower Only mode, Global sectionand more.
If you own an iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus, press Periscope’s Home screen icon firmly to access these handy shortcuts: Broadcast (Public), Broadcast Mutuals (Private), Teleport and Search People.
You can now skip ahead when watching a replay by touch and holding the screen and find location-enabled replays published in the past 24 hours on an embedded world map.
The new Trending section in the People Tab helps you find popular broadcasters, with thumbnails for live broadcasts now reflecting what’s currently happening in a clearer manner.
Periscope 1.3 changelog
Here’s the full list of changes in Periscope 1.3 for iOS:
Availability
Periscope requires an iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 8.0 or later.
The app is localized in English, Arabic, Bokmål, Norwegian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Nynorsk, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
