Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off.

After the Journal app came to older devices this month, Google looks to be bringing Pixel Studio to the Pixel 8 series with a new ability to animate images and share them as GIFs. The Pixel Studio ...

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Google will start taking action on Android apps in the official Google Play store that have high background activity and cause excessive battery draining. Apps that exceed a "bad behavior threshold" ...

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Google will roll out a new “Images” tab to its Search app on iOS and Android over the next few weeks, first in the US. You can find the tab alongside other tabs like Home, Search, and more. It’s ...

What if building a fully functional app, complete with secure logins, real-time data syncing, and even AI-driven features, could be done in mere seconds? It might sound like a pipe dream, but with the ...

Google is cracking down on apps that prevent a device from going to sleep for a long period of time by performing activities in the background. Starting March 1st, 2026, Google will begin hiding some ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. The Google App is getting an update that will add a new Images tab to the bottom. This area will be used as a ...

The update affects multiple device categories, including phones, tablets, Wear OS watches, Android Auto and Automotive systems, and Android TV. Image: Android TV Google has rolled out a new round of ...

When graphic design platform-provider Canva bought the Affinity image-editing and publishing apps early last year, we had some major questions about how the companies’ priorities and products would ...