Modern smartphones are way more powerful than most of us realize, and they include a whole range of sensors that tend to go unnoticed. While a lot of these sensors are used to pull off basic functions ...

Biometric security — the ability to unlock your phone with your fingerprint or face — is an amazing feature, but you often have to turn on the phone’s screen before you can use it. That’s because many ...

Did you know you can use your Samsung phone's fingerprint sensor to open different apps? Here's how to set up this hidden ...

A new option coming to Pixel phones in Android 16 is the ability to use the fingerprint sensor when the screen is turned off. In Android 16 DP2, Google is adding an option for “Screen-off fingerprint ...

In-display fingerprint sensors have become commonplace in virtually all Android smartphones, for better or for worse, and five years later we’re finally seeing the ultrasonic variety widely used by ...

Dhruv Bhutani has covered the Android ecosystem since 2010, with a focus on smartphones, connected devices, and home networking. His reporting is informed by hands-on experience reviewing hundreds of ...