Rooting a phone is naturally your best option if you’re looking to unleash the full potential of your Android device. However, rooting doesn’t come without a few downsides. For one, when you root your phone, you’re putting full trust in the root method’s developer not to have included harmful code or backdoor access. After all, …

Has your smartphone suddenly frozen or stopped responding? Most of the time, restarting your phone should fix the problem. But, in some more serious cases, you have to resort to a factory reset. We’ll tell you how to do both a soft and a hard reset of your Android phone here. How to restart your …

iOS 11 finally has its first jailbreak with Cydia support. Electra 1.0.1 is compatible with all of Apple’s latest devices — including iPhone X and the 10.5-inch iPad Pro — and all versions of iOS 11 up to iOS 11.1.2. Here’s how to use it. What you’ll need There are a few things you’ll need …

If you suspect that your iPhone is running more slowly than it used to do, here’s how to find out, and if so, disable the CPU “throttling”. Every time you recharge your iPhone, its battery is degraded by a tiny amount. This is an inherent limitation which all lithium batteries suffer from, and it means …

A couple days ago, Cloudflare launched its own DNS service at 1.1.1.1, promising that consumers would enjoy greater privacy and potentially faster internet if they switched over from their ISP’s default. Now, those speed differences might not be significant or noticeable enough to the point of making the switch full-time. (We’re talking milliseconds here.) But …

65% of consumers mistakenly believe that Incognito and Private browsing modes will hide their identity and browsing habits from governments, organizations, and advertisers. — Avast, 2018 77% of consumers falsely believe that their browser will alert them to potential web-based security threats, including those from third-party extensions. — Avast, 2018 Concerns about online privacy have …