Over the past few years, Google has introduced plenty of useful features to Android, whether it's new security tools that protect your phone from theft or innovative additions like the ability to ...

Your Pixel phone is loaded with excellent software features. These 6 are ones you probably aren't using — but 100% should be.

Ryne was ostensibly a senior editor at Android Police, working at the site from 2017-2022. But really, he is just some verbose dude who digs on tech, loves Android, and hates anticompetitive practices ...

If you've ever played a video on your Android device and turned it sideways, only for the video to remain stubbornly in vertical orientation, you may wonder why. But don't panic, as there's most ...

Your Google Pixel 8’s screen won’t rotate when you turn it sideways—and the toggle is already on. This is one of the most frustrating Android issues, but it’s almost always fixable with software. The ...

One of the surprising issues we encountered with Samsung Galaxy Note10 Android 10 update is about Auto-rotate not working. We did not encounter this problem with the older Note9 before. Since there ...

The YouTube mobile app has developed a very specific but very irritating problem when it comes to the auto-rotate setting, and it seems to be affecting many users. In the app, screen auto-rotation ...

The quick toggle section of the notification shade is one of the more convenient features on a smartphone today, giving you seamless access to a variety of important settings. And auto-rotate is one ...

This article explains how to enable and disable screen locking on devices running iOS 4 and up. It's broken down by iOS version and covers the ways to tell if screen locking is enabled. What if you ...

Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...

When Android was brought to market, it was pitched as an open, customizable OS that was the antithesis of Apple’s lock-down smartphone platform. While both OSes have moved closer together over the ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...