Android’s open nature leads to some disparity with how apps and features can work across devices from different smartphone makers. Over the last couple of years, background app performance has been a ...

Although Android is developed by Google, it is often customized by smartphone manufacturers. This results in each brand offering its own unique experience, but it also occasionally leads to problems.

For years there have been popular apps that claim to make Android phones faster, but actually just kill background processes en masse which does more harm than good. But with Android 14, Google is ...

Samsung may be bringing additional controls for Android 17’s upcoming Audio Hardening features. While Google has designed them to be active by default, One UI 9 could let users disable them if they ...

From its earliest incarnations, Android has always supported background apps. Granted, they would wreck your battery in the early days and slow down your phone. Things have gotten better, but there's ...

Even though they are fundamentally similar devices, we use smartphones and PCs in completely different ways. It's not uncommon to have dozens or even hundreds of processes running in the background on ...

With its next major release of Android, Google will prevent apps from using your smartphone’s microphone or camera whenever they’re in the background and not actively being used on screen. The move is ...

For most users, the in-car experience on Android, iPhone, Android Auto, and CarPlay comes down to just two app categories: navigation software and media apps. It's why Google Maps and Waze are so ...