An odd-ball scheme to let iPhone users talk to each other directly, device-to-device has reportedly been shelved. This walkie-talkie feature would have required special hardware, and been used when ...

Hurricane Harvey rescuers turned to walkie-talkie app Zello while working to save thousands trapped by floodwaters last week. As Hurricane Irma runs through the Caribbean and approaches Florida, ...

One of watchOS 5’s greatest features is the Walkie-Talkie app. If you know other Apple Watch owners, you can just talk into your wrist, like in a 1950s secret agent TV show, and chat to them. It’s way ...

Apple has disabled its Walkie-Talkie app for the Apple Watch due to a security flaw that could allow someone to listen in on a user's iPhone call. TechCrunch reported the vulnerability Thursday, with ...

Hurricane Ida made landfall on the Louisiana coast on Aug. 29 as a Category 4 storm. As residents sought ways to stay in touch during the storm, some social media users pointed to a walkie-talkie app ...

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 lineup can now double as walkie-talkies thanks to the addition of a new app known as ‘Walkie-Talkie.’ The app has made its way to the Google Play Store with a size of 23MB.

Blog posts on the Zello website ( here and here ) explain how Zello is indeed a push-to-talk messaging app, like a walkie-talkie, that can be used in a natural disaster. It allows people to ...

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Nearly two weeks ago, Apple disabled the Walkie-Talkie app on the Apple Watch after discovering a bug that could allow the feature to be used to eavesdrop on others. At the time, Apple said that it ...

If you are, for some reason, an avid Walkie Talkie user on the Apple Watch, you will be pleased to learn that the functionality is back in the latest watchOS update today. The watchOS 5.3 release ...

Apple late Wednesday said it disabled the Walkie-Talkie app on Apple Watch after being alerted to a vulnerability that allows a user to surreptitiously listen in on another iPhone's audio. Apple did ...