How to Stop Your iPhone and Its Apps From Tracking Your Location
Photo: DenPhotos (Shutterstock) While privacy as we used to know it might be dead and gone, there are still plenty of ways to protect yourself against the default tech standards…
Don’t Get Scammed by These Fake Crypto Apps on the Google Play Store
Cryptocurrencies continue to grow in popularity, but as interest increases, so does the creativity of scammers looking to capitalize on a cultural shift in order to rip people off. According…
These Popular Android Apps Are Putting User Data at Risk
According to a report by Check Point Research, many popular Android apps put your personal data at risk due to poorly secured third-party services. The report highlights several different security…
How to Banish the Ghost of Google Play Music From Your Phone
The Google Play Music service is dead, but the app still haunts many Android devices. Its icon remains on the launcher and its data takes up space in the internal…
How to Tell If You’re Being Scammed By Fleeceware Apps
Fleeceware is one of the worst scams you can deal with on your device, because it has one, singular goal: extracting as much money from you as possible. It generally…
How to Download Music and Podcasts From Spotify on Mobile, Desktop, and Web
It’s easy to take Spotify for granted—until slow streaming speeds or lack of internet connection preventing you from listening to some tunes or catching up on your favorite podcast. Luckily,…
Fix Android’s Recent App Crashes With These Two Updates
If you happened to notice a bunch of your Android apps crashing yesterday, you’re not alone. An issue with Android’s System Webview component caused a bit of grief, but it’s…
How to Transfer Your Signal Message History Between Android Devices
Signal is testing a new wifi transfer tool for Android users that will let you port your message history to a new device, much like the phone-to-phone transfer Signal added…
Install the Google Voice App if You Use That Number for Texts
I love Google Voice. The day Google decides that it, like Google Photos, deserves to be paid for, I might actually pull the trigger; having a secondary phone number that…
Check Your Android for Malware Clones of These Useful Apps
A handful of malware-filled Android apps has, once again, been removed from the Google Play Store, and they were all taking advantage of the latest trend in malware design: masquerading…