Staying aware of your surroundings matters. That includes hearing smoke alarms, appliance beeps or a knock at the door. Still, real life gets busy. You wear headphones. You get focused. Sounds slip by ...

The first developer beta of iOS 26.3 is here, and with it, settings that make transferring to Android easier and notification forwarding for third-party wearables. With Monday's iOS 26.3 update, Apple ...

Google began rolling out a new Android 16 update this week. The company says this marks the start of a new chapter for Android, with smaller, more frequent updates rather than a single yearly release.

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

For now, only Google Pixel users will receive AI-generated summaries of long texts and group chats. For now, only Google Pixel users will receive AI-generated summaries of long texts and group chats.

Google announced on Tuesday that it is releasing a slew of Android 16 updates, along with new general Android and accessibility features. The rollout of the new Android 16 features, which are first ...

Google announced a sweeping round of Android upgrades on Tuesday, Dec. 2, timed with the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The update bundle includes a second release of Android 16 for ...

Google is following through on its pledge to split Android versions into more frequent updates. We already had one Android 16 release this year, and now it’s time for the second. The new version is ...

Google launched Android 16 back in June, and with it came a ton of features and updates. Usually, that’s all Google does until the next version, which is expected to be released in beta sometime in ...

After adding the “Mark as read” action, Google is modernizing Gmail for Android notifications with photo previews. Previously, Gmail notifications on Android showed the sender, subject line, and body.

Android updates have gotten tricky to keep track of these days — between the polar-opposite problems of unpredictably poky progress from most non-Google device-makers and perplexingly overlapping ...