Scrolling and streaming suck plenty of power on today's Android phones. Here's how to squeeze the most juice out of your battery, including a new option to monitor battery-hungry apps.

As we previously reported, Google Maps is now rolling out a new gradient icon on Android and iOS. This new icon is still a pin, but the shape has been modernized. The top ring is noticeably thinner, ...

Did our AI summary help? For years, one of the biggest reasons Android users turned to third-party browsers was a simple but powerful workaround. Opening YouTube in ...

Following our report at the start of this month, Google Photos for Android is rolling out its new gradient redesign of the homescreen icon. After having the new design on my homescreen for a few days, ...

Google will start taking action on Android apps in the official Google Play store that have high background activity and cause excessive battery draining. Apps that exceed a "bad behavior threshold" ...

One of the main benefits of a YouTube Premium subscription is being able to play videos in the background, but at $14 per month, it becomes difficult to justify the cost, especially if you're not ...

You might close apps to speed up your phone, but Android already limits idle apps to save battery, so you don't need to micromanage them. Apps like Gmail still run background services to deliver ...

Microsoft Edge has an experimental feature that supports background video playback on Android. Anyone can try the feature, but you have to download Microsoft Edge Canary for Android and jump through a ...

Lock screen widgets on Android may soon get the slick background blur effect. The visual change was spotted in the new Android Canary build and should align it with Google’s new Material Expressive 3 ...

A future Android update will give the lock screen widget page a blurred wallpaper background, aligning it with the Material 3 Expressive design language. This visual change, which replaces the current ...