How to give your older phone new software powers

If you haven’t updated your phone’s operating system — or just haven’t found your way around the new software yet — here’s a ...
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Don't Remember Someone's Number? Here's How to Use T9 Dialing on iPhone Instead

Apple introduced T9 dialing to all iPhones when the tech giant released iOS 18 in 2024. With T9 dialing, you can call someone just by typing their name into your iPhone's Phone app. That means you don ...

World's first truly free software phone? That's the FSF's new 'long game'

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has unveiled a new initiative called LibrePhone, with the ambitious goal of a completely free software smartphone ecosystem. Good luck with that, because this aim is ...
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AI Agents Can Make You a Phone Power User. You Just Need to Learn a New Interface

We're on the cusp of AI agents changing our devices, Qualcomm says, but only if you ditch typing and tapping to ask AI.

Your open-source custom ROM has a dirty secret, and Librephone wants to fix it

The Free Software Foundation's new Librephone project wants to reverse engineer the binary blobs our phones rely on.

I used 14 secret codes to unlock menus of settings on my iPhone and Android - how it works

Dial these secret short codes on your phone to unlock hidden settings, secret menus, and powerful features most users never discover.