These quick performance tweaks can help restore its mobile muscle. If your Android phone feels like it's stuck in first gear, don't fret: You don't have to spend hundreds of dollars on a new phone.

Losing your phone on vacation can be stressful, but a calm, step-by-step approach can save your trip. Retrace your steps, ...

The Murena Fairphone (Gen. 6) is now available in the US. In terms of hardware this model is pretty much identical to the version available in Europe. But instead of shipping with Fairphone’s version ...

A call-screening tool for iPhones is included in the iOS 26 update. Since activating the feature, I’ve hardly noticed when ...

You can block or unblock a number on an Android phone using the built-in Phone app's "Blocked numbers" menu.

A new feature for iPhones screens calls, similar to a technology available for Android users. Here’s how to activate it. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer ...

Remote Lock lets you remotely secure a lost or stolen phone. So far, all you’ve needed to activate it was your phone number — so anyone who knew it could potentially lock your phone. That’s now ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As a person who covers consumer tech for a living, I get to use a few dozen smartphones every year. While I almost always advise on which is the ...

Android phones and tablets come in all shapes and sizes, and they're often among the best smartphones on the market. However, even the best tech still runs into issues sometimes. A reboot is usually ...

Rebooting your Android phone is often recommended as one of the ways to remove any temporary bottlenecks in the phone's performance, as it clears the memory, closes any unused apps running in the ...

It’s taken several years of requests, but we finally have a native MagSafe competitor for one of the best Android phones. The new Pixel 10 series comes with PixelSnap, the company’s new Qi2-based ...