It’s difficult to avoid Google apps, but using them doesn’t necessarily mean you have to hand over all your data and online activity to the tech giant.

Set up 2FA and passkeys . 2FA goes beyond your password. It requires a second verification factor, something only you possess. This could be a one-time code generated by an authenticator app ...

Google actually started rolling this out yesterday, along with the new Google+ sign-in feature for third-party apps. In addition to the settings shortcuts mentioned above, Google Settings also can ...

The Shortcuts app is easily overlooked. While it’s capable of creating scripts to automate tasks and processes, it can ...

Google will also begin making recommendations on the main account page, so that you'll know when its time to review different aspects of your accounts settings. We can only help this curbs some of ...

Google is preparing to make the icons on the Settings homepage more colorful. This is part of Google’s effort to redesign the Settings app to be more expressive. It’s unclear if colored icons ...

On Apple's App Store, for example, when downloading an app, users can review what data might be collected including location, contact information, usage data and search history.

When Google launched Material Design 3 and Material You alongside Android 12, the company was quick to add the new design language to many of its apps. A big outlier certainly is the Google app ...

Google is prepping a Settings page redesign for its Phone app that resembles the new segmented Settings menu UI expected to roll out with Android 16.We’ve managed to enable the updated design in ...