Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I've spent large portions of my life looking for ways to extend the battery life on my Android phones. Admittedly, that sounds rather dramatic, ...

Restarting your phone is one of the simplest ways to fix lag, app crashes, or random glitches. It clears temporary files and keeps everything running smoothly. But what happens when your power button ...

Is your Android phone starting to feel painfully slow? Before you get frustrated enough to drop hundreds of dollars on a new one, let's be real: you probably just need to clean up your digital mess.

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 ...

Google Pixel phone users on Android 16 stable are reporting frustrating unresponsive navigation gestures and buttons. This bug causes controls to freeze for seconds, recurring throughout the day.

The first full week of May 2025 wasn't exactly riddled with major introductions, but all the novelties aren't exactly shabby, either. So, let's dive in and pick them apart one by one. It all started ...

For many drivers, our car key fob is just as invaluable as our keys themselves. When's the last time you opened your car door manually with a key? Besides unlocking and locking the doors, the gadget ...

Google has been maintaining two Android development branches for years. One is the Android Open Source Project and the other is an internal branch of Android that’s closer to the software that ...

The adaptive refresh rate (ARR) feature in Android 15 enables the display refresh rate to adapt to the frame rate of content. The ARR feature reduces power consumption and jank as it lets devices ...

The Google Home app could soon add a refresh button and the “last refreshed” time to its home screen widget. The home screen widget could also get a “suggested” entry, which would add your most used ...