Imagine if a data broker knows your phone is on a nightstand next to another phone six nights a week and across town on the seventh night. That data broker also knows everywhere you go and how long ...

Are your apps secretly tracking and spying on you? Here’s ways to stop them. Ever feel like your phone (or Peter Thiel) knows a bit too much about you? From eerily relevant ads to apps suggesting ...

It's an easy way to free up memory and battery life This article explains how to stop apps from running in the background on Android 9 and higher. Here's how to kill background apps on Android: The ...

We typically always have our smartphones right next to us in case we need to answer or make a call, text someone, look something up, or just scroll aimlessly on social media. One thing you might not ...

The most popular apps are the worst offenders when it comes to raiding your account for data. In this edition of SecurityWatch, we offer some privacy-focused alternatives. I review privacy tools like ...

No matter how powerful your smartphone is, it is useless without the apps. The same can be said with the new Samsung Galaxy S22. It is the apps that make the phone work the way you want it. That’s why ...

Thanks to Apple’s tireless vetting of App Store apps, it’s tricky for an app to flat-out snoop on you. Then again, the behavior of some apps could be thought of as snooping if you squint and look at ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. Safety Check is a relatively new security ...

Imagine if a data broker knows your phone is on a nightstand next to another phone six nights a week and across town on the seventh night. That data broker also knows everywhere you go and how long ...

Android users have a lot of freedom with the system and can run much more applications. However, it is usually a menace when the smartphone's battery drains faster than it should. In many cases, the ...