this is what you need to know about walkie-talkie app ‘ten ten’

The app ‘ten ten’ has become extremely popular in a short time. This is what you need to know about this modern walkie-talkie.

Ten ten: this is what you need to know

The app is called ‘ten ten’ in lower case and the screenshots posted on the Play Store don’t give away much about what you can do with it. The description is also not of much use: “Ten ten is all about friendships – real ones. friends are the family we choose, we share secrets, moments, tears, laughter… they are the only people we can truly be authentic with.”

Yet ten is one of the most popular apps in the Play Store. Last week the app even took first place.

What can you do with ten ten?

Ten ten is a walkie-talkie app for you and your best friends. You can log in with Google, TikTok or email. You set a profile photo and name and then add your friends. You can add each other via your address book or by sharing a code.

Then you can talk to friends by pressing and holding a button. Your voice then automatically blares from the speakers of their smartphone. What is striking about the app is that these friends can hear you even when their smartphone screen is locked. Just like with a real walkie-talkie. So expect a lot of conversations via loudspeakers in public transport in the near future.

Fortunately, the app has an option to list all your friends or specific people muteso you don’t get bothered. This can be a temporary mute of 1, 4 or 8 hours, or forever until you turn the mute off again.

What about your rights and privacy?

If you take a look at the terms and conditions of the app, some alarm bells will ring. Everything you upload to the app gives its creators, among other things, the rights to copy, reproduce, disclose, sell, publish, broadcast, store, and so on. Your name may also be used.

If you want to use the app at all, you must provide access to your contacts and you must enable notifications. Even to add friends via codes, you must first grant access to your contacts.

Ten ten problems

Users of the app complain through reviews in the Play Store that it can be unstable at best. Especially since the latest update, there have been grumblings that the app keeps connecting and users cannot talk to each other.

Sometimes a problem arises if you have not all installed the latest update of the app. So if a new version of the app is available and you have it on your smartphone, but your friends don’t, there is a greater chance of connection problems.

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