Published on: 2025-04-19 11:05:34
For the vast majority of people, CarPlay is a must-have. Apple’s in-car experience provides a vastly superior infotainment experience than most options from carmakers. There’s quick access to your favorite apps, integration with Siri, seamless connectivity, and more. Here are some of my favorite tips and tricks for making sure you’re getting the most out of your CarPlay experience… Customize your CarPlay apps and Home Screen A lot of your favorite apps are probably available on CarPlay, but t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-20 19:30:54
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is preparing to make the icons on the Settings homepage more colorful. This is part of Google’s effort to redesign the Settings app to be more expressive. It’s unclear if colored icons are part of Google’s new Material Design 3 Expressive theme. Earlier this week, we found evidence indicating Google will introduce an expressive new Material Design theme at next month’s Google I/O developer conference. Although several mentions and potential exa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 11:13:57
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on a visual refresh for the “Autofill with Google” settings page. Changes include new icons, edit options, and clearer outbound link indicators. However, some sections retain inconsistent monochrome icons. Autofill with Google is an underappreciated feature on popular Android phones. Google saves your data, such as name, address, and even login information, and automatically fills it out on web forms and sign-in pages. Most users tak
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-04 07:46:19
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has finally started rolling out stable One UI 7 update in the US, starting with the Galaxy S24, S24 Plus, and S24 Ultra. We also expect the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6 to receive this Android 15-based update in the first wave. The update will be rolled out in a phased manner, so not everyone will receive it today. It took months of waiting and several rounds of betas, but it’s finally here. Samsung has finally, finally, finally begun ro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-08 19:46:00
Kerry Wan/ZDNET I love March Madness, at least until Louisville gets knocked out in the first round. Then, I just sit back, free of stress, and enjoy watching other teams play their hearts out like everything is on the line -- because it is. While NCAA basketball continues to be broadcast in standard HD, the games can look clear, bright, and beautiful on most modern TVs. Part of that appeal, though, is owed to your TV's motion-smoothing capabilities. Also: Your TV's USB port is seriously unde
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 19:00:14
Kerry Wan/ZDNET One reason why the Pixel phones are so popular is the camera. There's a depth, a level of clarity, and brilliant/accurate colors that most phone cameras cannot match. Also: If you're planning to upgrade your electronics, you might want to buy them now - here's why Google is always trying to one-up itself by improving the Pixel camera with every iteration. Back with the Pixel 8, Google introduced the P3 wide gamut capture feature that came along with the Ultra HDR format of And
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 20:30:14
Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET Samsung's One UI 7 is my favorite Android skin right now. It is fast, responsive, and intuitive. But nothing comes fine-tuned to your experience straight out of the box. You need to personalize your smartphone to make it more appealing. I change almost a dozen settings on every Samsung Galaxy phone to best suit my needs, and I believe these will elevate your user experience, too. Also: The best Samsung phones to buy From setting the highest available screen resolution to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 11:00:14
Kerry Wan/ZDNET One reason why the Pixel phones are so popular is the camera. There's a depth, a level of clarity, and brilliant/accurate colors that most phone cameras cannot match. Also: If you're planning to upgrade your electronics, you might want to buy them now - here's why Google is always trying to one-up itself by improving the Pixel camera with every iteration. Back with the Pixel 8, Google introduced the P3 wide gamut capture feature that came along with the Ultra HDR format of And
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 19:30:14
Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET Samsung's One UI 7 is my favorite Android skin right now. It is fast, responsive, and intuitive. But nothing comes fine-tuned to your experience straight out of the box. You need to personalize your smartphone to make it more appealing. I change almost a dozen settings on every Samsung Galaxy phone to best suit my needs, and I believe these will elevate your user experience, too. Also: The best Samsung phones to buy From setting the highest available screen resolution to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 19:00:44
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 introduces a new API called SettingsPreferenceService that lets apps contribute their preferences to the Android Settings app. This API lets apps declare which of their own preferences can be read or written by Android Settings, which currently has no ability to control app settings. It’s debatable whether Android developers will actually take advantage of this API, though, as iOS offers a similar API that few iOS developers take advantage o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 23:21:00
Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET Samsung's One UI 7 is my favorite Android skin right now. It is fast, responsive, and intuitive. But nothing comes fine-tuned to your experience straight out of the box. You need to personalize your smartphone to make it more appealing. I change almost a dozen settings on every Samsung Galaxy phone to best suit my needs, and I believe these will elevate your user experience, too. Also: Every Samsung Galaxy S25 model compared: Which phone should you buy? From setting the h
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-15 15:35:00
Kerry Wan/ZDNET I've spent large portions of my life looking for ways to extend the battery life on my Android phones. Admittedly, that sounds rather dramatic, but growing up with only budget models meant I was constantly tweaking device settings to squeeze every bit of juice out of their batteries. Thanks to this micromanaging, I successfully pushed the batteries on all my past smartphones to their absolute limit. I don't want to horde this knowledge to myself, so I've decided to share it with
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-16 19:20:52
Kerry Wan/ZDNET Did you know that whenever you turn on your smart TV, you invite an unseen guest to watch it with you? These days, most popular TV models utilize automatic content recognition (ACR), a form of ad surveillance technology that gathers information about everything you watch and transmits it to a centralized database. Manufacturers then use your data to identify your viewing preferences, enabling them to deliver highly targeted ads. Also: 5 Chromecast tricks to unlock your TV's fu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-16 23:01:00
Kerry Wan/ZDNET Say you recently picked up a shiny new TV. You unbox it like a kid at Christmas and prepare to indulge in all its visual glory. You think to yourself, "This is 2025. TV technology is sizzling, and it's going to look amazing no matter what." So you plug it in and don't take one look at the default settings. Big mistake. Also: I saw Samsung's deluge of Neo QLED TVs releasing in 2025 - these features impressed me most I've been guilty of it. And I'm okay with that because it's wi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 23:15:39
Table of contents PowerToys Command Palette utility Article 03/31/2025 3 contributors Feedback In this article PowerToys Command Palette allows you to easily access all of your most frequently used commands, apps, and development tools - all from a single solution that is fast, customizable to your unique preferences, and extensible to include your favorite apps. The Command Palette is intended to be the successor of PowerToys Run. To use the Command Palette, select Win + Alt + Space and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 03:53:00
Apple / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Another day, another iOS update for the iPhone, and this is quite a big one. iOS 18.4 brings with it a bunch of Apple Intelligence features, such as Priority Notifications, Visual Intelligence for iPhone 15 Pro handsets, the addition of a Visual Intelligence Action Button, and a handful of new emojis. Also: Apple Home finally gets robot vacuum support, thanks to Matter and iOS 18.4 Who can resist new emojis! That one with the bags under its eyes will surel
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 11:00:34
Zac Kew-Denniss / Android Authority I’ve been using Samsung phones for a long time. In 2012, the Galaxy S2 was my first smartphone, and after a break for Nexus and Pixel phones, I’ve been back with Samsung since the Galaxy S10 Plus in 2019. That means I’ve used every version of One UI so far and delved through every app, settings menu, and Good Lock module over the years. With that experience, I have a checklist of settings and features I enable right away, most recently on my Galaxy S25, and y
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 03:05:00
Kerry Wan/ZDNET Did you know that whenever you turn on your smart TV, you invite an unseen guest to watch it with you? These days, most popular TV models utilize automatic content recognition (ACR), a form of ad surveillance technology that gathers information about everything you watch and transmits it to a centralized database. Manufacturers then use your data to identify your viewing preferences, enabling them to deliver highly targeted ads. Also: 5 Chromecast tricks to unlock your TV's fu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 07:30:00
Apple’s software design strives to be intuitive, but each iteration of iOS contains so many additions and tweaks that it's easy to miss some useful iPhone settings. Apple focused on artificial intelligence when it unveiled iOS 18 in 2024, but there's a lot under the hood that adds to the steady stream of intriguing customizations and lesser-known features from the last few years. Several helpful settings are turned off by default, and it's not immediately obvious how to switch off some annoying
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-21 03:00:00
When iPhones are brand new, they can easily last all day, but that lasting power can diminish over time. On top of that, the latest iOS 18 software and apps, including Apple Intelligence AI, can drain them quickly. Long use and new features may lead you to need to recharge it sooner. But before you consider buying a new Apple phone, like the new iPhone 16 or the more affordable iPhone 16E, try out these battery hacks to prolong the daytime your current iPhone stays charged. Some of the causes o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-21 07:00:16
Joe Maring / Android Authority As hard as it is to believe, we’re just a few short months away from Android 16’s public release. We’ve had Developer Previews since last November and beta releases since January, and we’re expecting the final release to be ready in May or June. So far, the update hasn’t given us much to look forward to. There are loads of developer-focused and under-the-hood tweaks, but in terms of exciting user-facing changes, Android 16 has been lacking. Outside of improvement
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-24 19:00:33
Joe Maring / Android Authority As hard as it is to believe, this year will mark the tenth anniversary of Google’s pixel lineup. It feels like just yesterday that Google was announcing the very first Pixel, asking us if we needed a new phone. Like new new. Like doesn’t have a version number new. With the Google Pixel 10 series leaking left and right and having just revisited the Google Pixel 9 Pro, the Pixel series has been on my mind a lot lately. Specifically its software. Clean UX and helpfu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-26 19:57:59
is a reviews editor who manages how-tos and various projects. She’s worked as an editor and writer (and occasional sci-fi author) for more years than she cares to admit to. She can be found on Threads as @barbarask. As if things weren’t embarrassing enough for national security adviser Michael Waltz, what with inviting a journalist into a private policy group chat and all, Wired discovered that his Venmo account was wide open, revealing the names of “hundreds of Waltz’s personal and professiona
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-29 20:00:19
Kerry Wan/ZDNET I love March Madness, at least when my team is invited to the Big Dance. I even enjoy watching other teams play their hearts out like everything is on the line -- because it is. While NCAA basketball continues to be broadcast in standard HD, the games can look clear, bright, and beautiful on most modern TVs. Part of that appeal, though, is owed to your TV's motion-smoothing capabilities. Also: Why I recommend this Hisense model over the Samsung Frame TV - even if it wasn't $1,0
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-30 06:15:28
Nvidia has seen its fortunes soar in recent years as its AI-accelerating GPUs have become worth their weight in gold. Most people use their Nvidia GPUs for games, but why not both? Nvidia has a new AI you can run at the same time, having just released its experimental G-Assist AI. It runs locally on your GPU to help you optimize your PC and get the most out of your games. It can do some neat things, but Nvidia isn't kidding when it says this tool is experimental. G-Assist is available in the Nv
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-30 18:01:00
Optimize games and applications with a new unified GPU control center, capture your favorite moments with powerful recording tools through the in-game overlay, and discover the latest Nvidia tools and software. Features Unified GPU Control Center The Nvidia app integrates GeForce Experience's Optimal Game Settings and Nvidia Control Panel's 3D Settings into a unified interface. This becomes a centralized place to review or modify optimizations while adjusting driver settings. You can customiz
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-31 11:39:48
Quad9 can be used simply by setting the DNS server settings for your device to the addresses given in one of our service profiles. No sign-up is required, no account data needs to be given to Quad9, and there is no contract. Quad9 is free to use and collects no personal data about you. You can configure your router or wifi access point to distribute these settings, which will extend protection to all the elements on your local network including IoT devices, many of which otherwise would not have
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 18:07:46
Anyone who has suffered the indignity of a splinter, a blister, or a paper cut knows that small things can sometimes be hugely annoying. You aren't going to die from any of these conditions, but it's still hard to focus when, say, the back of your right foot is rubbing a new blister against the inside of your not-quite-broken-in-yet hiking boots. I found myself in the computing version of this situation yesterday, when I was trying to work on a new Mac Mini and was brought up short by the fact
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 22:42:25
Kerry Wan/ZDNET I love March Madness, at least when my team is invited to the Big Dance. I even enjoy watching other teams play their hearts out like everything is on the line -- because it is. While NCAA basketball continues to be broadcast in standard HD, the games can look clear, bright, and beautiful on most modern TVs. Part of that appeal, though, is owed to your TV's motion-smoothing capabilities. Also: How to watch March Madness 2025: The best streaming options For many people, motion
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 23:37:15
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR The RPCS3-Android app has just received a significant update which brings a settings menu to the PS3 emulator. This allows you to tweak everything from the resolution and frame limit to save states and more. The app is still in the early stages of development, so we expect even more additions in the future. One of the developers behind the RPCS3 emulator for PCs released an early version of an Android port last month, allowing you to play PS3 games on
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