When Android phones first arrived, there wasn’t a built-in flashlight feature. So, flashlight apps were extremely popular—and profitable. One particular flashlight app got caught doing something not ...

Flashlight apps are a dying breed. Google began adding them to Android as early as Lollipop, and OEMs have included them on their OEM skins for far longer. The need for this dwindles as the market ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

When iOS 18 rolls this fall, your iPhone is going to get a helluva lot of cool features. Your Home Screen will be more customizable than ever — the traditional app grid be damned. You can lock certain ...

Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! With more than 81 percent of the vote in yesterday’s tournament, YouTube is headed to the Final Four and ...

It's a tool that comes in handy often. Since the dawn of the smartphone, the back-facing camera array's LED camera flash has led a double life as a flashlight. Most modern smartphones now have an ...

Smartphones have had a significant impact on making our lives easier and have become a sought-after part of our lives. We depend on many functions of the phone at the same time. One of these functions ...

The following is a guest post from Simon Bates, Senior Advisor, Policy & Initiatives at MEF. Have you ever wondered why something as simple as a flash-light app requests your location when you boot it ...