You can turn your iPhone into a smart display on your nightstand, at your desk or in the kitchen using StandBy mode. It’s an attractive way to put your iPhone to work as a small information board or ...

Add more blur to the background or bring it into focus. Image: King of Hearts/Wikimedia Commons/D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac You can adjust the background blur of a Portrait mode photo on iPhone and ...

With the launch of the iPhone 17 series, Apple has quietly added a feature that many creators have been asking for. Dual Capture lets you record video from both the selfie camera and the rear camera ...

Apple Pay is quick and convenient, but it’s not accepted in all situations. Fairly often, I still need to pay for things on iPhone by entering my credit card details. In iOS 26, that has gotten way ...

I’ve been using my iPhone 17 Pro for almost four months now, and while it continues to prove that it’s a low-light beast with its camera, I stumbled upon a new mode that makes this camera phone even ...

Several factors contribute to better battery performance, and in the latest system update, Apple added a background tool based on Apple Intelligence. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for ...

Any iPhone, iPad, or Mac with a ProMotion display is capable of rendering buttery smooth 120Hz animations. However, Apple's Safari browser is locked to 60fps page rendering by default, making ...

Chrome on Android has offered a Reading mode for several years now, and Google is now significantly redesigning it. The previous “Reading mode” experience did not consistently appear on every article ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I've spent a significant portion of my life searching for ways to extend the battery life on my Android phones. Admittedly, that sounds rather ...

Microsoft is rolling out GPT 5.2 to Copilot on the web, Windows, and mobile as a free upgrade, and it'll coexist with the GPT 5.1 model. GPT-5.2 is described as OpenAI’s strongest model series so far, ...