Apple CarPlay and Android Auto Make Your Phone Hot. Here’s How to Keep It Cool

Powering a car dashboard is more demanding on your handset than you might think. These tips will save battery life and help your phone chill out.

Split Tunneling Is Your VPN’s Best Feature. Here’s How to Make the Most of It

This feature common to VPN services gives you protection and privacy specifically when and where you need it.

How to Record Your Screen on Any Phone

The built-in tools on your phone—as well as some inexpensive apps—let you share whatever you’re doing with others.

What ChatGPT Thinks It Knows About You Is Affecting Its Answers. Here’s How to Change That

Understanding how ChatGPT’s latest memory upgrade works will help you get even more out of OpenAI’s productivity tool.

Everything New You Can Do With Siri AI

When iOS 27 arrives, it will bring with it a fully revamped assistant for your iPhone.

Every Samsung Galaxy Phone Comes With This Unique Add-On

It’s called the Edge Panel. Here’s how to make the most of it.

Create Custom Windows 11 Notifications to Remind Yourself of Anything

Take full control of your desktop alerts by sending yourself recurring reminders and custom notifications triggered by specific events.

How to Run a Chatbot on Your Own Computer

Installing a large language model on your personal computer gives you a handy digital assistant that won’t compromise your data privacy.

The Easiest Ways to Share Anything Between Android and iOS

Transferring files and data across platforms is more straightforward than ever.

Set Up a Separate Work Profile on Your Android Phone

It is possible to achieve your desired work-life balance on your smartphone. Just set up separate accounts using this built-in Android feature.

Instapaper, the Original Read-It-Later App, Just Got a Huge Upgrade

New fonts, better customization, and a whole new layout all make it worth dusting off your Instapaper account.

All the Ways You Can Make Reading on Your Phone Easier

Tired of eye strain? These tips will help optimize your smartphone for marathon reading sessions.

3 Clever Things You Can Do With an Old Amazon Kindle

These e-readers are more useful in their old age than you might think.

Kagi Brings Back Old-School Search, One Human-Made Website at a Time

If you’re tired of sponsored and AI-summarized search results, Kagi gives you a curated—and human-centric—way to find what you’re looking for.

How Google’s New Gemini Rates Work and How to Track Your Usage

Now that Google has changed how its usage quotas are tallied, you might not get as many AI responses as you did before.

9 Tips to Get More Out of Google Chat

There’s more to Google’s messaging app than you might realize.

How to Avoid Spoilers Online and in Chats

You can minimize the risk of films and shows being spoiled for you by muting comments, conversations, and keywords on various platforms.

Where NASA Posts Its Best Space Photos, and How to Find Them

Explore decades of incredible images and videos of stars, planets, moons, and galaxies—most of which are free to use and share.

7 Lesser-Known Google Account Settings You Should Change

Adjust your options for things like account recovery, ad personalization, and which parts of your Google profile are shared publicly.

28 Tips to Take Your ChatGPT Prompts to the Next Level

Sure, anyone can use OpenAI’s chatbot. But with smart engineering, you can get way more interesting results.

How to Edit, Merge, and Split PDFs With Free Online Tools

You don’t need expensive software for basic PDF tasks. In fact, all you need is a handful of free web-based apps.

Use Tiny11 to Rescue a Computer Running Windows 10

If you can’t—or don’t want to—upgrade to full Windows 11, consider this lightweight version of Microsoft’s operating system that works on a wide range of computers.

The Best Browser Extensions to Get More Out of YouTube

You can significantly improve the YouTube experience with these browser add-ons.

Set Up Your Phone’s Always-On Display So You’re Unlocking It Less Often

Break the pattern of unlocking your phone for one thing and then getting sucked into something else. Set up your lock screen to show all the information you need at a glance.

How to Control Everything on Your Phone With Your Voice (iOS and Android)

Go fully hands-free with these tips for Android and iOS.

‘Reservation Hijacking’ Scams Target Travelers. Here’s How to Stay Safe

The hotel staffer who calls you with an urgent request for payment isn’t necessarily who they say they are.

Use Gmail’s ‘Manage Subscriptions’ Tool to Cut Down on Inbox Clutter

Find and remove newsletter subscriptions more easily using Gmail’s built-in tools for organizing bulk emails.

Your Phone Notifications Reveal More Than You Realize. Here’s How to Lock Them Down

A recent case shows law enforcement can see incoming Signal messages by searching an iPhone, even after the Signal app has been deleted. Here’s what to know, and how to protect yourself.

Best Apps for Focus (2026): Focus Friend, Forest, Focus Traveller

Distractions? What distractions? Here are our recommendations for apps that help you stay focused on the task at hand.

The Best Apps to Help You Cancel Subscriptions (2026): Trim, Bobby, TrackMySubs, Hiatus

You may have several recurring subscriptions you've forgotten about. These apps help you keep track of them—and cancel the ones you don't need.