Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off.

Windows has access to a vast selection of free, paid, open-source, and proprietary applications. While you can find many of these in the bundled Microsoft Store, others are scattered across the ...

Ben Khalesi covers the intersection of artificial intelligence and everyday tech at Android Police. With a background in AI and data science, he enjoys making technical topics approachable for those ...

An Android app now allows you to explore AirPods features that were previously limited to iOS or macOS devices. These include ANC controls, auto play-pause, battery status, head gesture detection, and ...

It's a simple prompt, but one that can generate an app that can be really useful for pretty much anyone. The great thing about using AI to make your own app is that you can customize it to your liking ...

Apple's Swift programming language can now be used to develop for Android, and share code with iOS apps. Swift was launched by Apple in 2014 — although it had secretly been in development since 2010.

Microsoft now allows IT administrators to remove pre-installed Microsoft Store apps (also known as in-box apps) using a new app management policy. This policy is now available for Windows 11 ...

Learning Python can feel like a big task, but with the freeCodeCamp Python curriculum, it gets a lot easier. I remember when I first tried to learn Python, I bounced between tutorials, books, and ...

Rising use “is not a signal of satisfaction,” an author of a new report says. Rather, heavy users of the apps are under “financial strain.” By Ann Carrns Pay-advance apps are marketed as a way to help ...

Starting with iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26, Apple provides app developers with access to a new Foundation Models framework that allows their apps to tap into the on-device large language model at ...