In its earliest days and versions, opening a whole bunch of apps in a row on an Android device would leave many of them in that device’s memory, causing your short attention span to gum up the works.

Android 16 QPR1 Beta 2 includes a quality-of-life improvement that allows immediate swiping away of recent apps to close them. The update removes the delay caused by waiting for the app-closing ...

Google may finally be closing one of Android’s long-standing privacy gaps, and it’s doing it in a fairly low-key way. New ...

Android’s open nature set it apart from the iPhone as the era of touchscreen smartphones began nearly two decades ago. Little by little, Google has traded some of that openness for security, and its ...

Most of us panic a little when we realize dozens of apps are 'open' on our phones. But does closing them actually help?