Every year, designers at Pew Research Center create hundreds of charts, maps and other data visualizations. We also help make a range of other digital products, from “scrollytelling” features to ...

Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off.

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Android backups currently support saving app data, but without per-app options. Google now appears to be working on individual toggles, letting you back up or exclude specific apps. The list sorts ...

What Happened: You know all those health apps on your phone? The ones you use to track your workouts, your sleep, your diet, or even your menstrual cycle? Why This Is Important: Here’s the really ...

Remember Tea, the dating safety app that leaked private chats and photo IDs in July? Months later, Apple has removed the iPhone app from the App Store. The storm around Tea began to brew over the ...

Millions of private messages meant to stay secret are now public. Two AI companion apps, Chattee Chat and GiMe Chat, have exposed more than 43 million intimate messages and over 600,000 images and ...