Contrary to popular belief, Android Auto does not stop working when mobile cellular service drops out. Because the platform relays information processed locally on your connected smartphone, proper ...

A new Android malware strain called Mantax Otax combines ransomware and spyware capabilities to encrypt files, steal sensitive data, and spam and harass victims. Indonesian operators distribute the ...

Patrick O'Rourke is XDA's News Editor and Entertainment Segment Lead. Previously, he was Pocket-lint's Editor-in-Chief, the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian tech publication MobileSyrup, and earlier in his ...

Dhruv Bhutani has been writing about consumer technology since 2008, offering deep insights into the personal technology landscape through features and opinion pieces. He writes for XDA-Developers, ...

Recent Google Messages beta builds (v20260731 beta onward) have disabled the Android system-level “Clear data” button. This is not a bug, as the accompanying Manifest declarations point to a new, ...

You can still use Android Auto, even when there's no mobile data. Using pre-downloaded maps and playlists greatly reduces latency issues. You'll lose access to web ...

Google now limits the total cloud storage available to free users to just 5GB across all platforms for new accounts; it used to be 15GB. That means, your emails, photos, documents, everything stored ...

Europe wasted no time using its landmark Digital Markets Act (DMA) to try to rein in Big Tech. Companies like Apple, Meta, and Google have faced steep fines and orders to modify their business ...

This week will see a shift in the calculations Google uses for account storage. Beginning July 7, all data in your Android backups will count toward the storage limit on your Google account. Under the ...

Switching from Android to iPhone is much easier than it used to be. Apple’s Move to iOS tool can transfer most of your important data in one go, including contacts, messages, photos, videos, calendars ...

(NEXSTAR) – An estimated 100 million people may qualify for a class action lawsuit against Google. Google, while denying any wrongdoing, previously agreed to the settlement in a lawsuit that accused ...

Following The Android Show, Google made several developer announcements at I/O 2026, led by AI Studio’s new capability to build native Android apps. The web-based AI Studio now lets you build native ...