Google updated its Pixel phones earlier in May with a routine update. Some users surprisingly found their battery life plummeting. Why would a simple tweaks and fixes update do this? Google has now ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

Google's new sideloading rules for Android ignore the Play Store's own malware problem, undermining its commitment to ...

Google’s latest Android rollout for Pixel phones is not just another monthly patch, it is a sweeping attempt to clean up a long list of bugs that have frustrated owners across several generations of ...

Ben Gomes spent 21 years building Google Search. Now he argues the most important thing in education is something no ...

Practice problem markup is being deprecated from Google Search in January. Dataset structured data is for Dataset Search only; it isn’t used in Google Search. Book actions continue to work in Google ...

Michelle is Lifehacker's Associate Tech Editor, and has been reviewing games, laptops, phones, and more for over 10 years. She is based in New York City and holds a master's degree from NYU. Multiple ...

This month, Google dropped a few hints about how its most important and lucrative product, Search, will be changing in the coming months. Earlier this year, the company rolled out AI Overviews — ...

In an update provided via its Issue Tracker, Google says that problems with the Now Playing feature on Pixel devices is “fixed” with an update forthcoming. Over the past few months, many Google Pixel ...