Google is cracking down on battery-draining Android apps with a new Play Store policy targeting “excessive partial wake locks ...

Assuming your phone is on and online, you should be able to see its location on a map. From there, you can make it ring, lock it, set a lock screen note to tell whoever has it how to get it back to ...

If your Android phone has become so painfully slow that you're starting to miss your old flip phone, don't rush out to buy a ...

How to: Go to Settings > Display on your Android phone. There, you'll find the option to switch between a light and dark theme and to have dark mode turn on automatically at a certain time of day. I ...

Google will penalize Android apps that drain your battery with a new "Excessive Partial Wake Lock" metric starting March 2026 ...

For users, this update offers clearer transparency, and one more tool to avoid apps that quietly kill battery life behind the scenes.

If your Android phone battery often drains faster than expected, Google may finally have a fix. It is introducing a new system that will warn users when an app is silently consuming too much power.

Apps loaded with malware have been a problem on Android phones for years, and a key reason behind it is the open nature of the operating system. Unlike iOS, which only allows installation of apps from ...