While airplane mode turns off your phone's wireless signals, location services on your phone will still work. Here's what you need to know.

Airplane mode disables the radios and transmitters on portable electronic devices like phones and laptops.

In the past, mobile phones were generally not allowed to be used on airplanes. However, those times have long since changed. The familiar instruction to turn off electronic devices like smartphones or ...

Your phone, when left to its own devices, is a needy little thing. It constantly pings cell towers, searching for a connection. On the ground, that's no biggie. In the air, those pings can interfere ...