Repair Mode lets technicians fix your Android phone without seeing your personal files or apps. Here's how to enable it.

Each one is an interruption, and over the course of a day, they continuously nudge you to pick up your phone. So, get rid of them. On an iPhone, go to Settings > Notifications, select an app, and ...

For a long time, I avoided reading anything lengthy on my phone. Browsing through articles, PDFs, and even long emails quickly became frustrating. The text often felt cramped, the screen too bright or ...

So you want to spend less time on your phone. How do you do that when it's designed to suck you in? Life Kit spoke to experts in behavioral science, psychology and technology for real-world advice.

Jason Chun is a CNET writer covering a range of topics in tech, home, wellness, finance and streaming services. He is passionate about language and technology, and has been an avid writer/reader of ...

You probably take your phone everywhere you go. So how do you end up misplacing it? Easy! We get too busy to remember where everything goes sometimes. That includes your iPhone. But don't worry, ...

I can't count the number of times I stood outside my neighborhood church and lied to myself about my smartphone usage. Over the past decade, my daughters have often stopped to play on the church's ...

I have been rescued by cowboys a few times in my life. Just enough times, in fact, to start a joke among my friend group that ...

At a fireside chat about NYU's latest initiative, NYU IRL, "The Anxious Generation" author Jonathan Haidt advised Gen Z to ...

Starting with tvOS 26.2, Apple TVs began displaying a user profile selection screen every time you wake the device from sleep. The feature helps households with multiple users maintain separate ...

At Samsung’s Galaxy S26 live event on Wednesday, the company introduced a new display technology that allows users to turn on a privacy mode and prevent so-called “shoulder surfing” on a per-app basis ...