Google Maps taking you the long way? Learn why the app defaults to slower routes and discover the hidden settings that will ...

For a little less than a decade now, hooking your phone to your car has been that one pure moment of technology bliss. We ...

Your Kindle eBooks have the advantage of taking up no space—they don’t sit on a shelf, you don’t have to carry them around, and they last forever, even if your dog has a taste for paper. Even better, ...

The Google Play store has millions of apps. Some are great, many are duds. Our guide, which covers 13 key categories and 100 top apps, features the ones that deserve a place on your Android phone or ...

Editors' Note, May 6, 2026: With this update, we added Google Gemini and Ground News to our recommended Android app lineup and removed Pocket and Stitcher. The existing picks have been vetted for ...

Norton tops our Android antivirus list with great real-time protection, useful extras, and affordability. Aura and TotalAV follow closely behind. Over 70 percent of mobile devices around the world run ...

Android is adding significant friction for users to sideload an unverified app. The new “advanced flow” includes multiple steps and requires more than 24 hours to complete. Starting in September, ...

Voice-to-text on Android is really good if you’re using a Pixel, and pretty hit or miss everywhere else. But the new “Wispr Flow” app promises some big improvements to voice-to-text on Android, all ...

One of the changes that we've seen in phones over recent years has been more control over the file systems. Having previously hidden away a lot of the local storage structure, Android and iOS now both ...

For much of Android’s history, digital privacy existed as a background concern, something users acknowledged in theory but rarely examined closely in practice. That distance has narrowed considerably.

Google recently announced Gemini AI assistant is currently rolling out to Android Auto for select regions and devices, bringing conversational artificial intelligence to over 250 million vehicles ...