The Greatest App of All Time Day 9: SwiftKey vs. Telegram
Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Yesterday’s lineup was an extremely close race and Read It Later fans put up…
The Greatest App of All Time: March Madness Bracket Day 1
Welcome to Gizmodo’s first annual March Madness bracket. We want you to help us figure out which app is the greatest of all time. We’ve nominated 32 competitors, and two…
Stop Closing Your iPhone’s Background Apps
Apple users seem unanimously convinced that closing background apps is a good habit, but it’s more likely a waste of time. For too long, I’ve watched friends and family orchestrate…
Movie Piracy App Surpassed Netflix and Disney+ on App Store Before Apple Killed It
The piracy app Kimi, which let users watch stolen movies and TV shows on their iPhones, briefly surpassed streaming heavyweights on Apple’s App Store rankings before being removed by the…
The Apple iPhone Is Becoming More Like Android When it Comes to Cloud Gaming
Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo Apple is granting more access to its manicured walled garden to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in the European Union (EU). In a…
Fortnite Is on Its Way Back to iPhones
Apple is granting more access to its manicured walled garden to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in the European Union (EU). In a press release, the company announced…
The Google Play Store Ruling Is Bad News for Longtime Android Phone Users
Last week, Epic won a years-long suit against Google for anti-competitive practices within the Play Store. We were all left wondering: what would happen to Android’s app store moving forward?…
Apple Opens VisionOS Access for Devs to Start Making ‘Spatial’ Apps for Vision Pro Headset
The apps are coming for Apple’s not-VR/AR headset. Even though the Vision Pro headset won’t see release until 2024, Apple is hoping to have a wide suite of 3rd party…
Snapchat now offers a real-time location-sharing feature
Snapchat introduced a real-time location-sharing feature designed to be a virtual buddy system for people en route to a date or on their way home at night.
How to stop apps from tracking your location in Android and iOS
If you don’t your movements being tracked by apps on your phone, here’s how to turn off location tracking.