Even if you don't do much on your smartphone, a couple of apps may be running in the background on your Android smartphone. Whether you check your email on your phone or use it to find directions, you ...

Accessing the Settings app frequently can be cumbersome, especially if you need to navigate through multiple screens to reach it. To simplify this process, you can add the Settings app directly to ...

Not every Android app you install needs your location, microphone, or contact list—yet many help themselves anyway. If you haven't checked your privacy settings in a while, now's the time to shut the ...

Google is making a push to ensure its AI, Gemini, is tightly integrated with Android systems by granting it access to core apps like WhatsApp, Messages, and Phone. The rollout of this change started ...

If there's one thing that bothers me in this modern era, it's advertising. I understand companies have to pay the bills, but sometimes ads can become a bit much. Even worse, some ads feel like a ...

As part of Android 14, it seems Google is gradually rebuilding parts of the Settings app using its more modern Jetpack Compose library instead of traditional Android Views. Back in 2019, Google ...

Starting today, Google is implementing a change that will enable its Gemini AI engine to interact with third-party apps, such as WhatsApp, even when users previously configured their devices to block ...