Your taskbar icons are trying to tell you something. Here’s what the most common ones—and their variations—really mean.

Android 16 QPR3 makes the location indicator in the status bar expandable, allowing you to see which app is tracking your device's location.

With a revamped privacy indicator appearing as a tappable blue icon in the status bar, you can see exactly which apps are ...

Starting with iOS 26.1, Apple has updated the Clock app icon to work a lot more like an Apple Watch. Since iOS 7, Apple has animated the Clock app icon with the current time when viewed on the home ...

Google has added a new blue dot that notifies the user if an app is using location permissions, just like the green ...

Android offers deep customization, and free icon packs are an easy way to refresh your home screen. Top picks include Verticons’ vertical icons, N-thing’s Nothing-style pixels, Circons’ clean circles, ...

Android 16 is getting a new location notification alert so users have a better idea of when apps access their location. To be ...

You can change any icon on your Mac to suit your taste. Screenshot: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac A great way to personalize your computer is to change your Mac icons. New in macOS Tahoe, you can give ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

Many popular apps collect more of your personal data than necessary to function properly. These 20 apps quietly scoop up your photos, location, contacts, and more. Here's how to protect yourself. I ...