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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Apple players will lose Fortnite cross-play starting today June 07, 2025 The fallout ofEpic’s legal tusslewith Apple is now hitting the remaining Fortnite players on iOS devices. A report byThe Vergenow confirms that Fortnite gamers on Apple’s ecosystem will not roll-over to the game’s new season, Chapter 2 – Season 4, nor will they be able to play against gamers on other systems....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Become a Nova Launcher power user July 12, 2025 Because Android is an open-source operating system, other tech manufacturers have been able to create alternate versions of Android in their own images. These alternate versions are what we refer to as “skinned” versions of Android and include Samsung’sTouchWiz, HTC’sSense UI, LG’s LG UI, and Sony’s Xperia UI. At their core, these skins are still fundamentally Android, but they usually have a different look from stock, or “vanilla”, Android with added customization features, too....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Before and after: Galaxy S20 Ultra camera update is a mixed bag July 04, 2025 TheSamsung Galaxy S20 Ultrais a powerful, formidable smartphone. As is often the case with fresh hardware, however, the software wasn’t quite ready at launch. The Galaxy S20 Ultra camera app suffered from some performance issues. In response, Samsung issueda software updateto resolve the problems. Did Samsung get the job done?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Best of Android 2015: Camera July 07, 2025 What is Best of Android? In Best of Android, we take the hottest devices of the moment and compare them in-depth. For this first edition, we picked up the following Android flagships: What about the Galaxy S6 or the HTCOne M9 or the OnePlus 2, you ask. Those are all great phones....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Best of IFA 2019 Awards: The best new tech at Berlin’s big trade show August 14, 2025 IFA 2019is here. TheAndroid Authorityteam has spent nearly a week scouring the show floor for the best tech products in Berlin, and we’ve managed to round up our favorite eight products. Fromsmartphones, tolaptops, tosmart light bulbs, there’s something in here for everybody....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Bill to revive Net Neutrality passes Senate, now on to the House June 17, 2025 The United States Senate today voted in favor of a bill that would repealthe FCC’s December decisionto end the rules governing the internet known asNet Neutrality. The measure passed (viaThe Verge) in a 52 to 47 vote, a larger margin than expected. Insider predictions saw a vote down party lines in the Senate, but it appears that three Republicans voted in favor of the bill....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. DeskDock app: control your Android device with your PC’s mouse and keyboard August 23, 2025 Merging your computer and mobile devices to create the perfect workflow can be challenging. There are plenty of tools out there, and you can even turn your tablet into a second monitor, but none of those solutions are perfect. Can DeskDock make the cut?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Display specs: the good, the bad, and the completely irrelevant July 31, 2025 Let’s talk display specifications. I don’t mean which screen has the biggest brightness or contrast numbers, or which is the latest and greatest technology; I want to talk about the specifications themselves. Which ones are really important? Which ones really don’t matter (at least not nearly as much as marketing departments would have us believe)?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Everything we’ve learned about the new I Know What You Did Last Summer show July 19, 2025 Fans of 90s slasher films are about to get an exciting new series based on a classic. An I Know What You Did Last Summer show is headed toAmazon Prime Videojust in time for Halloween. The new series will take a new approach to the story first filmed in 1997, which was itself based on a 1973 novel … and it’s produced by horror master James Wan (Saw, Insidious, The Conjuring, Malignant)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Factory Reset Protection can be easily bypassed on Android N and unpatched stock Marshmallow June 08, 2025 Factory Reset Protection (FRP), a protection measure that’s supposed to prevent thieves from using stolen Android devices, is easy to bypass on some Nexus devices running on unpatched versions of stock Marshmallow or even Android N preview. In case you’re not familiar with FRP, here’s how it works: if a device that has a Google account associated to it is reset to factory settings, FRP will ask for the credentials of that Google account before the system loads up....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Fossil’s Q Wander and Q Marshal go up for preorder on August 12 July 05, 2025 Fueled bylast year’s acquisition of Misfit, the Fossil Group continues it march towards its goal of offering more than 100 wearables by the end of the year. The latest pair of smartwatches to join that collection are the Q Wander and Q Marshal, which go up for early order on August 12....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy Note 7 fires caused by irregular battery sizes and manufacturing defects August 09, 2025 Irregular sizing and manufacturing defects in the Galaxy Note 7 battery have been deemed to be the primary causes for the fires and explosions that caused the flagship device to berecalled globallyin 2016. The revelations come fromThe Wall Street Journal, which has received advance information ahead of Monday’spublic disclosurefrom the South Korean giant....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy S7 Edge Feature Focus: Edge UX July 09, 2025 TheSamsungGalaxy S6 Edge’s curved display was certainly elegant looking, but perhaps not quite as functional as some hoped that it could be. Thankfully, Samsung has introduced some new features with its Marshmallow software and theGalaxy S7 Edgeis really showing how useful the curved display can be with some new Edge UX features....