When I toggled on Deep Focus mode, my Pixel stopped being a toy and started being a tool. On Android, this mode is no joke. When you enable it for the first time, it asks for Overlay and Usage ...

Editor's take: Google's latest Android enterprise update adds RCS Archival, a tool that lets organizations intercept, archive, and retain messages sent through Google Messages on work-managed Pixel ...

Last year, Apple finally added support for Rich Communications Services (RCS) texting to its platforms, improving consistency, reliability, and security when exchanging green-bubble texts between the ...

There are two apps I almost always install on my new Android devices: Google Keep and Google Tasks. Keep is a super simple but very effective note keeping app, while Tasks lets me keep my to-do lists ...

A new feature for iPhones screens calls, similar to a technology available for Android users. Here’s how to activate it. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer ...

I'm a big proponent of using focus hacks when you need to buckle down and get work done and most of those rely on some route to going distraction-free and engaging in what's known as deep work. When ...

Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1 brings a major fix for home screen theming by automatically generating themed icons for all apps. This creates a clean, consistent look. The update also includes a new ‘Create’ ...

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Android 16 officially rolled out a few weeks ago, and in addition to enhanced protection and productivity enhancements, the latest OS introduced several changes to how notifications are received. If ...

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After months of speculation and beta testing, Google is rolling out Android 16 starting today. The new software will arrive first on Pixel phones, but you can expect to see updates on other phones in ...

Google TV and Android TV are finally getting a user-friendly sleep timer. This new feature, likely part of a Material 3 Expressive refresh, will be easier to access than before. It includes smart ...