I can tell the time based on how much battery my phone has left. Full charge? I must have just gotten up. Half-dead? It’s probably time to eat lunch and start looking for that phone charger I swear I ...

Android P will natively block idle apps from accessing the camera of one’s device in a bid to boost the overall security of the operating system, XDA Developers reports, citing a recent commit ...

You might close apps to speed up your phone, but Android already limits idle apps to save battery, so you don't need to micromanage them. Apps like Gmail still run background services to deliver ...

Update (02/21): Another open source commit has been unearthed which suggests that Android P will also stop idle background from accessing your device’s microphone. According (once again) to XDA ...

When you do a lot of production work on your Mac, often times you end up running many processor-intensive tasks. Whether it is Motion, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, or Logic, there are times when even the ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. Last month, a series of AOSP commits revealed that the next release ...

There’s few things more annoying than finding that an app you barely ever launch is consuming a bunch of resources in the background that are affecting your battery’s life. While uninstalling the app ...