Anu is a Features author at Android Police. You'll find her writing in-depth pieces about automation tools, productivity apps, and explainers. Before joining AP, she used to write for prominent tech ...

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 ...

When you operate your phone, it stores bits of data from the apps and features you use to help them run more smoothly. Over time, this data can pile up and cause multiple issues on your phone, ...

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 ...

For most people, just making it so that it's not *trivial* to recover data using an 'undelete' type app is probably good enough. If you just do a factory reset, it's likely in that 'trivial' stage ...

You would think when you do a "factory reset" and agree to erase everything on your Android device that all of your data would be wiped out for good. But you'd be wrong. As many researchers have ...

It seems that Google is working on making the data transfer process from one Android device to another faster. The new options could make the process of switching phones much easier. If implemented, ...