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Canva unveils Canva Enterprise for businesses, overhauls homepage UI

Updates to Visual Suite, Magic Studio also revealed

Published

May 27, 2024

Manila Connoisseur

At its first ever Canva Create event, Canva has unveiled its latest subscription service: Canva Enterprise. The reveal came along with Canva’s biggest overhaul to date, as well as the introduction of more products and services like Canva Courses and Work Kits.

Canva Enterprise comes with complex security, reporting, administration, and brand management requirements. This subscription will allow large organizations to create large quantities of visual content and scale internal collaboration with ease. Moreover, it will give companies access to a scalable cloud storage and a centralized account with various tools.

Tailored tools for every team

As Canva has been expanding to not just a visual design assistance tool but an all-around suite of services for companies, the company has also introduced more tools specifically for marketing, HR, sales, and creative departments.

This range of tools includes Canva Work Kits, a curated collected of craft-specific templates, from presentations to documents. Some of the templates include newsletters, job advertisements, sales reports and proposals, content calendars, social media posts, creative briefs, and more. Work Kits are fully customizable and can be branded using Canva’s Brand Kit.

Furthermore, Canva has announced Canva Courses. This new offering is designed to address the design skills needs of employees in the workplace. It will empower users to be creative in tinkering with existing designs for presentations, documents, and even videos. Courses can be assigned to individuals across an organization, and progress can be managed from a central dashboard.

Homepage UI redesigned

Meanwhile, Canva’s core product experience also got a complete redesign. This overhauled UI will speed up workflows, allowing users to focus on whatever they’re working on. The new homepage will be available to the first one million users who discover a hidden portal in the current homepage. Nevertheless, general availability will commence in August.

Some changes include a new contextual editing toolbar. The one-click background remover and Magic Studio AI tools are now front and center. Furthermore, workspaces are now customizable. Organizations can also pin company or team-wide content to the top the page. This will allow teams to move between projects, assets, and resources. Lastly, the search interface has been juiced up with advanced filters.

Improving Visual Suite, Magic Studio

Lastly, Canva is expanding Visual Suite and Magic Studio with upgrades, helping users leverage the power of AI technology even more. Magic Studio upgrades include the following:

Magic Media (Text to Graphic): Generate graphics, icons, and illustrations with a text prompt
Magic Design: Generate higher quality presentations with improved AI design technology
Resize and Magic Switch: Convert any design to any custom doc with a prompt or by choosing from options
Styles and Layouts: Apply brand colors and templates to a design with a click
Supercharged Photo Editing: AI-powered photo editor helps users move, remove, or edit any part of an image
Upgrades to Video: AI-powered highlights cuts a selection of clips from longer videos

On the other hand, updates to Visual Suite include:

Suggested Editing: Track changes and collaborate on edits
Apps from Amazon Ads, Google, Meta: Instant feedback on designs and easy access to asset libraries, approved by each platform
Data Autofill: Bring business data to Canva from third-party sources like Salesforce, MLS
Bulk Create: Speed up workflow by uploading a CSV or Excel to Bulk Create; allows users to apply updates across various designs

Throughout the years, Canva has focused on expansion. It introduced Visual Suite less than two years ago. Then, it added Magic Studio to help the 99% benefit from AI at work. Recently, Canva also acquired Affinity to create a powerhouse combination for designers.

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Disney+ launches a TikTok-coded vertical feed called Verts

Published

March 13, 2026

Luigi Leonardo

TikTok has changed how we consume media. Everything is now vertical. Even the most established streaming services, often a bastion for traditionally horizontal content, is adopting the different format. Now, Disney+ is getting a vertical feed called Verts.

Like its contemporaries, Verts presents a continuous feed of content but tailored to show the plethora of titles from the Disney+ library. This might include the first scenes of shows or notable highlights. The hope, of course, is to direct users to the longform content.

Directly from the Verts feed, users can easily add the respective title to their watchlist or go straight to the title’s page. In turn, the feed is accessible from the homepage since it has its own tab.

According to Disney, early experiments with the feature have driven engagement to available content. Right now, the feed is mostly for clipping enticing content from shows. However, the platform will experiment further with the format for new ways to tell stories.

Though Verts surely stands for “verticals” in this case, “adverts” might fit better as its full government name. Still, it might be a useful tool if you’re figuring out what to watch for the night.

Currently, Verts is available for Disney+ subscribers in the United States. Disney also has plans to expand the feature to ESPN for sports-related content.

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Google Maps is finally getting a 3D mode

The app will also have a Gemini chatbot baked inside.

Published

March 13, 2026

Luigi Leonardo

Some of today’s navigation apps are living in the future. Instead of a two-dimensional map, these apps render the user’s surroundings in 3D. It’s a nifty upgrade that helps drivers more accurately visualize directions on the fly. Finally, Google Maps is getting a much-needed upgrade and will take navigation to the third dimension.

In a new update rolling out today, the new Immersive Navigation feature will bring your surroundings to life. The 3D view creates a render of the surrounding buildings, overpasses, and terrain around the car. It takes the guesswork out of navigation by showing precisely where to turn and what landmarks to look out for.

In the same vein, you can now use Street View to preview your destination before you arrive. Google Maps will also highlight your destination’s entrance, side of the street, and nearby parking.

Outside of how the map is visualized, Google Maps is also infusing its service with Gemini. The new Ask Maps feature will let you engage with the app in a conversational manner. For example, if you’re in the middle of a long drive, you can now ask Maps where the best place is to stop over and have a coffee break. Ask Maps will provide directions, a potential itinerary, and even helpful links to book a reservation ahead of time.

Now, availability for both of these features is still a bit limited. Immersive View is rolling out today to compatible devices and vehicles in the United States. Further, availability will expand over the coming months.

Meanwhile, Ask Maps is available now in the United States and India for Android and iOS. A desktop version is coming soon.

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Apple Music, TikTok launch Play Full Song, a new music discovery experience

Rolling out worldwide exclusively through Apple Music

Published

March 12, 2026

GadgetMatch

Ever came across a viral 15 or 30-second music snippet on TikTok that instantly became your jam on repeat?

For years, TikTok has been a regular source of songs that have become part of our playlists. And together with Apple Music, listening to the music you discover has just gotten even easier.

That’s through Play Full Song, a new music discovery experience, which launches exclusively though Apple Music.

With the new feature, Apple Music subscribers can now enjoy full-length tracks that they discover on TikTok. That’s without ever leaving that popular streaming app.

Fans who discover a song that they love on their For You or Sound Detail page can simply tap the Play Full Song button to open up an Apple Music player and enjoy the song in its entirety.

From there, subscribers can continue listening to a personalized stream of recommended songs. That means no more need to switch apps and search separately.

The new Play Full Song experience helps music fans move seamlessly from the moment of discovery to deeper listening. It’s also designed to be instant and all within the same environment.

Moreover, users can also save their favorite songs to Your Music and add them directly to their Apple Music playlists.

Built using Apple’s MusicKit, full-length song playback takes place on Apple Music. This way, streams are paid within the Apple Music service, supporting artists and rights holders while giving fans a smooth, uninterrupted experience.

Listening Party also launched

The feature builds on the success of TikTok’s Add to Music App. This was previously launched to help artists and fans convert discovery on TikTok to a playlist save in Apple Music and other streaming services.

To cap the announcement, TikTok and Apple Music are also introducing Listening Party. This new feature is designed to bring artists and fans together around music.

It creates a shared environment where fans can listen to songs from their favorite artists in real time, interact with each her, and engage directly with the artist during the session.