Your smartphone is full of surprises. There's an app if you want to use your phone as a magnifying glass or scanner. Tap or click here for hidden apps on your smartphone and how to find them.

Your smartphone is full of surprises. There’s an app if you want to use your phone as a magnifying glass or scanner. Tap or click here for hidden apps on your smartphone and how to find them.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. It seems like QR codes are everywhere now. Thanks to the COVID ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

Two-dimensional barcodes called Quick Response codes, or QR codes for short, are used to store data that devices can read. While QR codes are popularly scanned via smartphones, what if you want to ...

QR codes have become an essential tool for accessing digital content quickly and efficiently. They provide a seamless way to connect to websites, make payments, download apps, and much more. With your ...

Quick Response codes (a.k.a QR codes) have been around for years — as far back as 1994, in fact — and have become fairly common at this point. The little square-shaped, pixelated-looking barcodes seem ...

Android 13 Beta 1 launched a couple of days ago, and it brought some changes with it. We’ve talked a lot about them already, but new findings are constantly appearing. It seems like Android 13 Beta 1 ...

Quishing is proving effective, too, with millions of people unknowingly opening malicious websites. In fact, 73% of Americans admit to scanning QR codes without checking if the source is legitimate.

Google is working on a minor UI redesign for Android’s built-in QR code scanner. The redesign relocates the flashlight and feedback buttons for easier one-handed use, and it also includes a new launch ...