Special permissions allow Android apps access to system-wide resources—you should check which apps have access to what.

I test Android phones for a living, but I write about them using a company-supplied MacBook Air. Both platforms are great in ...

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Samsung has enabled file transfers to iPhone devices through Quick Share, starting with the Galaxy S26 series as the first to support the feature. The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra can now connect with ...

The loss of essential photos or app data can happen on any Android device. It also feels even more stressful, especially if there is no immediate backup. Yet, acting correctly in the first few minutes ...

Files, a feature-packed file manager for Windows 11, has been recently updated with some useful improvements for its context menus. Files, a popular and feature-packed file manager for Windows 10 and ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

Google is rolling out a new local file backup feature for Android as part of the February Google Play System update. The feature adds a dedicated backup option for your Downloads folder, saving static ...

Google updated its Google System Services Release Notes page today and it introduces a new feature that adds some sort of local file backup via Google Drive. The specifics around how it works are ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Android users frustrated by clunky workarounds when sharing files with iPhone owners are finally seeing progress. File ...

One of the changes that we've seen in phones over recent years has been more control over the file systems. Having previously hidden away a lot of the local storage structure, Android and iOS now both ...

Avicii’s former manager, Ash Pournouri, has filed a lawsuit against the estate of the late Swedish DJ, claiming that he was defamed in the 2016 Netflix documentary Avicii: True Stories, the 2021 book ...