In Android 5.0 Lollipop, Google introduced a security feature called Factory Reset Protection to help folks keep their data safe. It works like this: if FRP is turned on and your Android device is ...

When you tap delete on your Android phone, a file might disappear from your view. But it's not really gone. You've erased the index of that file, but the file itself is still in the phone's storage.

To force a factory reset on an Android phone using Recovery Mode, first turn off your device. Then, hold down the volume up and power buttons simultaneously until the Recovery Mode menu appears. Use ...

Android 9 Pie's Adaptive Brightness feature uses machine learning to optimize your display brightness based on past adjustments - which is great, as long as your circumstances don't drastically change ...

How do you sell a phone without giving away the data on it? If you’ve used a phone even briefly, it’s filled with all kinds of sensitive data, including passwords and login tokens alongside personal ...

An estimated 500 million Android phones don’t completely wipe data when their factory reset option is run, a weakness that may allow the recovery of login credentials, text messages, e-mails, and ...

Sometimes, our smartphones give us issues that a simple restart just can't fix. Other times, you may want to purchase a new phone and pass your old one to someone else. Both these scenarios would call ...