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Previously, Threads was tied directly to your Instagram account but deleting your Threads profile would mean doing the same for the latter too. It was quite a bizarre move, to say the least, but you can do it now thanks to the long-awaited update.

While everyone is exploring how Threads work, some discovered that deleting your Threads account is not that simple. In the Supplemental Privacy Policy section, it is stated that “Your Threads Profile is Part of Your Instagram Account. Therefore, it may be deleted at any time by deleting your Instagram account”.

Almost everyone has a Google Account but so are inactive ones. With this, Google has announced that its inactive accounts will be shut down in due time. As long as the Google Account (whether it's Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar, YouTube and Google Photos) has not been used or signed in for at least two years, it shall be deactivated.

Google is now offering a new option that helps users remove the search history in the last 15 minutes. The feature was supposed to make it by the end of last year, as announced at the previous Google I/O. However, due to unknown reasons, the company is only releasing it now. 

Sometimes once in a while, you would get tagged by Facebook from another person's photo because the system recognises your face. Whether you find it helpful or annoying, it seems that Meta will be shutting down the Face Recognition system on Facebook. The reason being is because the company is looking to limit the technology in their products. 

By now, you might have read some news about WhatsApp's new privacy policy. But what you might not know is they actually publish them online and you can read all about it. It's not really long but if you're too busy, here's the gist of what the new policy says. 

If you take a look at your smartphone's data storage, there's a good chance that WhatsApp is one of the highest storage space app hoggers, no thanks to the millions of photo and video spams sent by friends and family. Thankfully, the WhatsApp team have finally rolled out a new Storage Management Tool for better and easier file management.