Stephen is an author at Android Police who covers how-to guides, features, and in-depth explainers on various topics. He joined the team in late 2021, bringing his strong technical background in ...

After the erasing process, set up your device and restore your backed-up data. If your device is frozen, enter recovery mode. Power it down, then hold Volume Down+Power. This article explains how to ...

How many phone numbers do you know by heart? Relying on tech to remember such things can feel precarious, but there are just too many details for our brains to store. So it makes sense to defer to our ...

For mobile users, knowing how to wipe and take an Android device back to its factory default settings can be an essential skill. Not least of all because, as with any piece of software, Android isn’t ...

I’m not a tinfoil conspiracy theorist by any means, but smartphone data privacy has been on my mind for quite some time. You can never be sure enough when it comes to data security and privacy, and ...

How do you sell a phone without giving away the data on it? If you’ve used a phone even briefly, it’s filled with all kinds of sensitive data, including passwords and login tokens alongside personal ...

According to researchers at Cambridge University, around 500 million Android smartphones are vulnerable to a flaw in the factory data reset function that could allow the recovery of a wide range of ...

An estimated 500 million Android phones don’t completely wipe data when their factory reset option is run, a weakness that may allow the recovery of login credentials, text messages, e-mails, and ...