Android Apps
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Snapchat Score: What is It and How to Check Yours
Did you know that Snapchat rates you? It's called your Snapchat Score, and every user has one. Find out how to view yours and control who can see it.
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What Every Snapchat Symbol Means
There's no need to be confused by Snapchat's emoji indicators — we'll tell you the difference between a golden heart and a pink heart, plus the rest of Snapchat's symbols.
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Get Live Captions for Facebook, Instagram, and Other Videos on Android
The Live Caption feature generates real-time subtitles for videos on most Android apps, so you can follow along even when you can't hear the sound.
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How to Recover Deleted Text Messages on Your Android Phone
If you delete a text message, you have a good chance of recovering it if you act quickly. Here's our guide for Google Messages and Samsung Messages.
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How to Protect Your Accounts with Two-Factor Authentication
Two-factor authentication (2FA) prevents hackers from gaining access to your accounts even if they have your password. Here are the best practices for using 2FA.
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How to Find Your Phone
Whether your phone is missing or you've misplaced it with the ringer off, there are easy ways to find your iPhone or Android phone.
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Use These 5 Tips to Shop More Effectively Using Google
Here are the 5 tools in Google Search and Shopping that make it easy to find exactly what you want for the best price and buy it from a trusted merchant.
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How to Use Your Phone's Camera to Search
When you're on the go, you can get the info you need on that product, place, or landmark by snapping a picture with these apps.
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Does a Pop-up Mean Your Phone Has Been Hacked?
A pop-up claims you have a virus and need to call tech support. Or maybe you're just getting annoying pop-up ads. Has your phone been hacked? Here's how to tell.
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Free Personal Safety Apps that Can Call For Help
These free personal safety apps can alert others that you need help, even if you're unable to send an SOS yourself.
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Keep Your Facebook Messages Private with Secret Conversations
With Facebook’s Secret Conversations enabled, your messages are encrypted end-to-end, so no one can read them. But there are loopholes.
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How to Record Your Android Phone Screen
In Android 11 and higher, you’ll find a basic screen-recording tool built-in that can capture your phone’s video and audio, as well as sound from the mic.
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What You Need to Know About the Gmail Redesign
Gmail now integrates Chat for messaging and Meet for video conferencing. Here’s how to navigate the redesign and go back to the old view if it’s not for you.
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How to Make Text Larger on Your Phone, Tablet and Computer
Here’s how you can make your smartphone and laptop screens more readable without resorting to reading glasses.
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New Facebook Feeds Tab Puts You in Control of What You See
If you don't like Facebook telling you what to read, you'll love the new Feeds tab that shows chronological posts from your friends, Pages, and groups.
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How to Use Google Password Manager
Passwords you save when using Chrome can sync across all your devices. Here's how to use Google Password Manager on your computer, phone, and tablet.
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How to Reset Your Android Phone Without Losing Your Data
If your phone freezes or runs slowly, a reset often clears up your problems. First, though, you need to protect your data by backing it up. Here’s how.
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Get These Apps Before Your Next Road Trip
Whether you're out of gas, looking for something to see along the way or want to steer clear of speed traps or traffic, there's an app to help.
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12 Tips for Faster Browsing with Google Chrome
Google keeps making browsing more efficient. So even if you've been using Chrome for years, check out our 12 tips to see what you may be missing.
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10 Tips to Get More out of WhatsApp
While you might have been using WhatsApp for years, there are ten hidden features that you should be using to save time and enhance your privacy.
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Google Image Search Gets Even Better with Multisearch
Google image search now lets you use text to refine your search to give you better search results, as well as find related style and color variations.
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The Easiest Way to Send Links between Your Phone and Computer
There’s a simple way to send links directly between your own phone and computer browsers without resorting to emailing or texting yourself.
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You Can Now Install Android Apps on Your Windows 11 PC
All Windows 11 computers can run hundreds of Android apps downloaded from the Amazon Appstore and touchscreen laptops operate like Android tablets.
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How to Forward a Text Message on Android Phones
Want to forward a text message to someone else? Here are the simple steps to forward a text in Google Messages and phone manufacturer messaging apps.
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How to Move Text Messages to a New Android Phone
Here's how to move text messages from an old to a new Android phone and ensure you can recover all of your texts even if your phone is lost or stolen.
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How to Create Ringtones for Android Phones
Easily set your favorite song as your ringtone, edit or customize sound files to make custom ringtones, and assign unique ringtones to important people.
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How to Reverse Image Search Using Google
Sometimes an image does a better job at describing what you're searching for than words. Here's how to search using just an image on your phone and computer. -
4 Apps That Automate Annoying Everyday Tasks
These apps will help you find the cheapest parking with a free space, stop the flow of junk mail, block spam callers from leaving voicemail, and more.
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How to Connect Your Phone to Your TV
After testing the solutions, we found the best ways to connect for the most popular models of TVs and phones.
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16 Surprising Things You Can Do with Google Maps
Google Maps does so much more than get you from point A to point B. Here are our favorite features, along with some hidden tips and tricks.
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How to Make Live Wallpaper for Your Android Phone
Live wallpapers, which animate your lock screen and home screen, can be easily created from your own still images and videos. Here's how to make them. -
How to Unsubscribe from an App
Here’s how to find your subscription status and stop paying for app subscriptions on your Android or Apple device.
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12 Free Productivity Apps that Will Save You Time
These 12 free apps will help you work more effectively by helping you stay focused, consolidating important information, and automating routine tasks.
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How to Download Android Phone Photos to Your Computer
You can easily download all of your photos or choose a select few to transfer from your Android phone to your computer. Here's how.
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Miiskin Fights Cancer by Helping You Monitor Skin Changes
Miiskin makes it simple to monitor your skin for moles and other skin changes that could be signs of cancer, even on hard-to-examine areas like your back.
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The Best Apps of 2020
From streaming services to the easiest workout routines ever, the year's best apps help us stay healthy and entertained even when we're stuck at home.
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Google's Pixel 4a Has High-End Android Features at a Budget Price
While the Pixel 4a isn't the only smartphone with a moderate $349 price tag, it has impressive features you usually can't get without paying a lot more.
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How to Figure Out Who Hacked Your Phone
The best way to narrow down the field of suspects is to determine exactly how your phone is being compromised. Here are 9 steps to figuring out who hacked your phone.
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Bulk Delete Facebook Posts with This New Privacy Tool
With the new Manage Activity feature, you can easily filter you old Facebook posts and delete or achive them to pull your private information out of the public eye.
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The Best News Aggregators
Our top picks for news aggregators make it easier to stay on top of our favorite newspapers, blogs, magazines, and other news sources.
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New Medical ID Sharing Lets Your iPhone Send Health Data to Emergency Services
A new feature in iOS 13.5 lets your phone send key medical data to emergency services when you call 911 — it could help save your life.
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Facebook Messenger Rooms Makes Video Chat Easy
Facebook's new Messenger Rooms group video calling feature is supremely easy to use, but raises some security concerns. Here's what you need to know.
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The Best Games to Play Online With Friends
Our top picks include online games you can play over video chat, collaborative games kids (and adults) can play together, and casual games for the whole family.
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NordVPN Doubles Speeds with New WireGuard-Based VPN Protocol
NordVPN's new NordLynx VPN protocol provides service that's up to twice as fast while maintaining the industry gold standard of "no-logs" service.
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How to Sign an Electronic Document
Tired of printing, signing and then scanning documents? Here are the simple steps to signing PDF and Word documents on your phone and computer.
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How to Create an Electronic Signature
Here are the simple steps to create an electronic signature so you can easily add it to PDF, Word and other documents.
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Coronavirus Robocall Phone Scams on the Rise
Scammers are calling people to offer testing for coronavirus, protective gear, and health insurance. Don't be fooled. Here's how to avoid these scams.
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Google Cracks Down on Unnecessary Location Sharing
Keeping your private data private is a challenge, but soon Android will offer new tools to lock down access to your location and other sensitive data.
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5 Ways You’re Using Your Phone Wrong
A few quick adjustments in how you use your phone can improve the experience, saving you time and effort.
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Apps for Turning New Year's Resolutions Into Reality
These apps will help you stick with your New Year's resolutions to lose weight, get fit, meditate, save money and eat healthy.
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How to Block Caller ID on Your Phone
Easy steps to block your number from caller ID on your iPhone, Android phone or home phone permanently or on a call by call basis.
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The Best Android Apps & Games of 2019
Google's best apps of the year highlight how very useful your Android phone can be, from fitness to productivity. See which apps you're missing.
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5 Steps to Clean Up Your Smartphone Address Book
Is your smartphone address book filled with outdated and duplicate contacts? Follow these 5 simple steps to clean up your contact list.
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7 Products That Show How VR and AR Are the Future of Tech
Virtual reality and augmented reality are already changing how we travel, learn, shop and more. Here's how.
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How to Record a Phone Call
With a little pre-planning, recording a call can be as easy as pressing a button. We show you how to record calls on your Android phone, iPhone, landline and computer.
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How to Remove Any Virus from an Android Phone in 4 Steps
How to remove malware on your Android phone and, if you are not sure if you have a virus, how to identify whether your phone has been infected.
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Emergency Tech Essentials for Your Home
Be prepared to ride out the next storm with these gadgets, even if you have no power.
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What's Draining Your Android Battery?
Find out what's draining your Android battery and what you can do about it.
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Popular Face Aging App Is Grabbing the Rights to Your Photos
When you upload a photo to the popular face aging FaceApp app, you're giving the company rights to use that photo for commercial and other purposes.
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Call Control App for Android Prevents Robocalls from Going to Voicemail
The Call Control app for Android is the first I’ve tested that silently blocks spam calls/robocalls and prevents them from going into your voicemail.
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Android versus iPhone: Which is Better?
Thinking of switching from iPhone to Android phone or Android phone to iPhone? We take you through the key features and tell you which platform is better.
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8 Essential Steps to Securing Your Privacy
Use these apps and services to keep control over your increasingly valuable personal data. Best of all, many are free.
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What to Expect from Android Q
Android Q delivers more privacy controls and fewer distractions for all users and is designed to power the next generation of smartphones with support for foldable phones.
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How to Prevent Facebook from Uploading your Contacts
Facebook may be using your mobile device to harvest your friends' contact information — here's how to turn it off and delete any information it collected.
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Get Automatic Price-Drop Refunds with These Apps
These services scan your inbox for purchases and automatically file for a refund if they see a price drop. There's no simpler way to save.
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Fronto: the Android App You Use to Make Real Money
The Fronto app for Android lets you make real money by watching a few ads a day. Learn more about how it works what to be wary of.
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Fitness Apps that Pay You to Lose Weight & Get in Shape
These fitness apps not only help you reach your target weight, nutrition, and activity goals, but let you earn cash as well.
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Facebook Bug Lets App-Makers See Photos You Never Posted
A new Facebook bug gives app developers access to all photos you upload to Facebook — even photos you don't post.
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The Best Android Apps & Games of 2018
From the biggest apps to the hidden gems, these are 2018's best apps and games on Google Play.
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3 Apps to Help You Drive Safe
These smartphone apps prevent driver distraction, call emergency services (even when you can't) and keep tabs on young drivers.
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What You Need to Know About Android 9 Pie
Android 9 Pie is rolling out and you won't want to miss these awesome new upgrades.
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Gmail Delivers New Level of Security with Confidential Mode
Gmail now lets you protect individual messages with a passcode, set an expiration date and prevent the recipient from forwarding or copying the contents.
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Dashlane 6 Offers One-Stop Identity Theft Protection
Already our favorite password monitor, Dashlane has added a pile of new features that make it even easier to keep your accounts and identity safe.
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Google Tracks You Even After You Disable Location History
If you don't want Google to know where you are at every minute of the day, you'll have to dig deep into your privacy settings.
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How to Restrict Kids Screen Time Inside and Outside Your Home
Whether your kids are using your home WiFi or your carrier's cellular network, there are tools that let you monitor and restrict screen time.
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T-Mobile Lets You Control Kids' Screen Time at Home & on the Go
Manage exactly what your kids can do online, whether they're on their computer at home or out using their smartphone.
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An Easy Way to Find Your Compromised Passwords
Dashlane automatically checks to see whether your passwords have been compromised and changes them for you.
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The Best Grocery List Apps
These grocery apps let you share one grocery list with everyone, store coupons and organize your list so you can shop by aisle in your favorite store.
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How to Fix Your Phone When it Crashes from a Text Message Bomb
Text messages that crash your phone have been making the rounds. Here's how to recover from these text message bombs.
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Google's Assistant Becomes More Lifelike, Apps Become Smarter
Google is using artificial intelligence to make using its software smarter and easier to use.
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9 Apps That Pay You Real Money
These 9 apps pay you real-world cash for unlocking your phone, watching ads, searching online, walking the local mall and more.
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Never Miss an Important Email on Your Smartphone
Never miss an important email again. Follow these simple steps to set your smartphone to notify you only when important email arrives in your inbox.
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8 Tips to Deep-Clean Your Android Phone
Removing unneeded apps, photos and other files from your phone can provide a sizeable boost in performance.
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Android Go Offers High-End Performance on Smartphones Under $100
Google is offering a streamlined version of Android 8.0 Oreo designed to make low-end smartphones run smoothly. Here's what you will and won't get.
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The Best Meditation Apps
These meditation apps will help you better sleep, reduced anxiety, increased focus and productivity and enhanced your self-esteem.
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How to Tell if Your Child Is Using Risky Apps
There are plenty of apps that can put kids at risk of sending inappropriate pictures, chatting with strangers and bullying. Here’s what you should do.
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Free ADT Go Personal Safety App Provides Safety Away From Home
The Free ADT Go app will make you and your family feel safe. Our video shows how features like a panic SOS button and monitoring kids driving habits work.
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Top Android Apps for 2017
Grab a great game or set yourself up for New Year's resolution success with this list of the best apps of the year.
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Use an Image to Search eBay
You can now shop eBay auctions by taking a picture or using a picture you find on another website.
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Safety Apps that Get Help in an Emergency
Apps that get help and relay vital health and contact information to emergency medical professionals — even when you can't make a call.
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Apps to Help Prevent & Reverse Diabetes
Studies have shown that prediabetes (and even Type II diabetes) can be reversed or prevented through healthy diet and exercise. Here are 4 apps to help
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Why You Should Upgrade to Android 8.0 Oreo
Enhanced notification controls, better battery life and picture-in-picture videos are among the best new features of Android Oreo.
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Google and Apple Track You Everywhere You Go
Google and Apple record everywhere you go. Here's how to turn off tracking, view your location information and delete it.
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Stop Using an Unlock Pattern on Your Phone
You don't even need a computer to hack your unlock pattern.
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Best Apps to Help Kids Study & Get Organized
The right apps can be game-changers when it comes to helping students organize their time, take class notes and keep up with their homework.
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How to Block Calls & Texts on Android & iPhone
Too many calls from telemarketers and other nuisance callers on your smartphone? Here are apps and settings to help you identify and block those calls and texts.
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Why Is My Email Disappearing?
You read your email on your phone, but when you check again on your computer, your messages are gone. Here's how to stop your email from disappearing.
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The Best Running Apps
For beginners to advanced marathoners, these running apps will motivate you to get moving, whether you need coaching, music, tracking or competition.
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The Best To Do List Apps
In hunting down the best to-do apps, we looked at task management features, general organization, collaborative features and ease of use.
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iPhone vs Android: How to Choose Your Next Smartphone
We look at the software features that define iOS and Android to help you decide which camp you should pick for your next smartphone.