Google Says Switching Away From Its Search Engine Is Easy. It’s Not. But Google has argued that it’s easy for people to change their search engine — just as simple as putting…
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As Smartphone Industry Sputters, the iPhone Expands Its Dominance
As Smartphone Industry Sputters, the iPhone Expands Its Dominance There’s a general rule about consumer electronics: The older a device becomes, the more competitors appear and prices fall. This was true for…
A Tech Checklist for the Dark Side of Summer Weather
The American Red Cross Emergency app for iOS and Android provides alerts and information about a variety of weather events, as well as storm-preparation guides and a list of nearby shelters.
What to Know About Limiting Your Child’s Screen Time
Google and Apple offer free tools for their mobile operating systems that can help restrict screen time on smartphones and tablets.
How to Automatically Edit and Enhance Your Smartphone Photos
Adobe Photoshop Express is just one of many apps that can quickly touch up blemishes (and missing fur) within images, and crop the picture for social sharing.
How to Brainstorm and Plan Events With Friends and Family
Apple’s Freeform app for iOS and Mac creates digital whiteboards that can be shared among several people working on the same project, and allows collaborators to add images, sticky notes, links, handwriting and more to a giant scrolling canvas.
How to Prepare for a Lost, Stolen or Broken Smartphone
Google’s Find My Device tool can help locate missing phones, and it provides options to remotely lock and erase the device if it appears to be stolen.
How to Make Your Smartphone Photos So Much Better
RAW files provide more data for a photo-editing program to use. Here, an enhanced image of Lower Manhattan captured in Apple’s ProRAW format on an iPhone 14 Pro Max and edited in Adobe Lightroom, right on the phone.