Category: #Smartphones

You might think that switching from Facebook Messenger to old-fashioned text messages would help protect your privacy. But standard SMS text messages aren’t very private…

Even though iPhone has Siri, some iPhone owners prefer using Google Assistant for performing spoken-word tasks. With a feature called Back Tap available in iOS…

There are many sensors on your smartphone, and two that present some privacy concerns are the camera and microphone. You don’t want apps to be…

The $500 Pixel 4a 5G sets the benchmark for mid-range phones, but you can still go a lot cheaper. Google As flagship devices from Samsung,…

Few iPhone privacy issues make people as nervous as whether an app is using your camera or not. Luckily, thanks to Apple’s Privacy settings, it’s…

Signal is a popular privacy-focused, encrypted messaging app. It’s an alternative to WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, and others. There’s a lot to like about the…

Every few years, Samsung’s premium Galaxy phones get a major redesign as they enter a new phase of development. The new Galaxy S21, S21+, and…

As part of a suite of privacy enhancements in iOS 14, apps will have to ask before tracking your activity across other companies’ apps and…

If often happens that in an attempt to clear the constantly accumulating clutter on our phones, we accidentally end up deleting photos we didn’t mean…

Cameron Summerson Every new iPhone has wireless charging, but it can be hard to tell which Android phones come with this handy feature. Brands such…

From Apple’s iPhone to high-end Android phones from manufacturers like Samsung, every flagship phone has a camera with a night mode now. Here’s how these…

This week the Samsung Galaxy S10 family of mobile smart devices began downloads of their main Android 11 One UI 3.0 update. This includes the…

Face ID is a fantastic feature of Apple’s iPhones. With Face ID, all you need to do is pick up your phone, tap the power…

Android devices don’t always allow you to open every file type you might be emailed or download. The same goes for compressing a file or…

2020 is thankfully in the rearview mirror, which means — among other things — a year of new hardware to look forward to. While we’d…

Privacy is a big topic when it comes to mobile devices. iPhones and iPads show little orange and green indicator icons when apps access the…

There is a myriad of ways to launch a shortcut, including from the shortcuts app, Siri, and widgets. But the fastest way is by using a…

An automated home was a futuristic pipe dream not too long ago. However, as the second decade of the 2000s comes to an end, “smart…

If your computer runs Windows 10 and you also have an Android phone, you should probably be using Microsoft’s Your Phone app. You can do…

Although it hasn’t been long after the emergence of 5G, technology companies are already preemptively preparing themselves for the following generation of wireless technology, namely…

For the past few years we’ve seen some wild concepts – and even wilder real world smartphone releases – with methods for hiding cameras. The…