A battered Samsung screen and erratic touch responses forced creative fixes to resurrect a spare phone as useful hardware.

I dug into Android's Permission History and found apps pinging my GPS 500+ times a day. Here is how I reclaimed two hours of ...

Sony has begun rolling out Android 17 to the Xperia 1 VIII, unlocking a desktop computing mode that the phone's hardware was already built to support — owners just needed the software to catch up. The ...

Safe Mode has a lot of utility when it comes to troubleshooting Android phone problems and protecting your device from malware. When an Android is in Safe Mode, all third-party apps are disabled, and ...

Android 17 desktop mode has a very simple pitch. Plug your phone into a monitor, add a keyboard and mouse, and watch the slab in your pocket pretend to be a computer. I wanted to give that pitch a ...

With Android 17, Google is introducing a surprise platform-level gaming mode for foldables that transforms your Pixel 10 Pro Fold or Razr Fold into a dual-screen, Nintendo DS-style handheld console.

Android 17 introduces a new Foldable Gaming Mode: a 50/50 layout that places your game on the top half of your foldable’s inner display and a virtual gamepad on the bottom half. Google says Foldable ...

Google Maps is invaluable behind the wheel and one of the key reasons anyone would want to use Android Auto, but a frustrating bug has left a number of Android Auto users with their directions stuck ...

Android Auto users are battling a new bug, as Google Maps no longer switches to dark mode automatically when they turn on the headlights. This glitch isn’t new for long-time users, as similar ...

Jade Bryan is a Feature Author at Android Police with over a decade of tech reviews and news reporting experience, stretching back to the Symbian era and the early days of Android. He covers the ...

Dhruv Bhutani has been writing about consumer technology since 2008, offering deep insights into the personal technology landscape through features and opinion pieces. He writes for XDA-Developers, ...

Accidents can happen with our smartphones sometimes, which might require us to take them to a technician. Even though we shouldn't assume ill intent, any of us would be wary allowing a technician to ...