Android 17 arrives June 2026 for Pixel users, featuring enhanced desktop-like controls, on-device AI, and a redesigned notification system..

Android 17 will drop sometime in June 2026. This new release is all about adding polish. Listed here are known, rumored, and wishlist features. It's that time of year when Android users (and pundits) ...

Version 8.5 of Google Clock for Android was released last week and it’s rolling out the ability to dismiss alarms by swiping. Update 1/22: This alarm swipe option is now widely rolling out for all ...

Smartphone gestures entered the mainstream after Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007. When the first Android phone, the HTC Dream, was launched the following year, it incorporated similar gestures – ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

“Sleep is for the weak,” I would mutter to myself as I dragged my tired limbs out of bed at 5 a.m. I knew that if I let myself drift off again, I would risk missing my alarm altogether and waking up ...

Getting locked out of your Android device can be stressful—especially if you’ve forgotten your PIN, pattern, or password. In situations like this, performing a factory reset may be the only way to ...

For many of us, phones are mostly for calling, texting, and browsing. Two decades ago, that was pretty much all a phone could do. But today, with powerful built-in features, it can handle far more ...

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Dear Eric: I’m the first to recognize we live in a different world than 20 or 25 years ago. That is to say everything seems to have become so fast-paced; everyone is always busy, no time for anything, ...

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