You can customize the Android Quick Settings to have a shortcut to almost any place on your phone. Here is how you can do so.

Of all the first-party apps, Google Maps probably offered the worst settings experience, but a redesign is finally cleaning things up.

The French and U.K. equivalents to the U.S. government’s cyber defense agency have issued new advice for users. “Deactivate ...

Press and hold on any open space on your home screen. Scroll through the list of available options until you see Pixel Search ...

With the release of Android 12 back in 2021, Google made a somewhat controversial change to the Quick Settings panel. Gone were the individual toggles for Wi-Fi and mobile data. In their place was a ...

Android 16’s first major update made me fall back in love with Quick Settings. After Android 12 took away the smaller toggles and switched to the large pill-shaped buttons in the name of Material You, ...

You must be able to decide. That’s Samsung’s message for Android users in the aftermath of Google’s Gmail nightmare, when a ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As a person who covers consumer tech for a living, I get to use a few dozen smartphones every year. While I almost always advise on which is the ...

Rajesh started following the latest happenings in the world of Android around the release of the Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy S. After flashing custom ROMs and kernels on his beloved Galaxy S, he ...

Google has released Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1 with the December 2025 security patch for a wide range of Pixel phones and tablets, ahead of a planned stable release in March 2026. The beta introduces ...

The green dot on Android phones signals when an app is using the camera or microphone, helping users monitor privacy and spot ...