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Android 2025 scorecard: Major changes and challenges leading to an exciting future for the OS

With plenty of new features and a brand-new rollout strategy, Google changed quite a lot of things around Android in 2025.
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Clear your Android cache to stop slowdowns, here's how

Android phones rarely slow down overnight. Performance usually erodes in small, frustrating steps as apps pile up temporary ...

Android Attacks—Google Confirms No Fix For 30% Of All Phones

More than 30% of Android phones still run Android 12 or older. That’s bad enough. But OEMs take time to deploy these fixes, ...
Android Authority

Exclusive: Google wants to make Android phones safer by switching to ‘risk-based’ security updates

For the past decade, Google has consistently published an Android Security Bulletin every month, even if the company wasn’t ready to roll out a security update to its own Pixel devices. These ...

Android 16 QPR3 finally lets you see exactly which app is tracking your location

Android 16 QPR3 makes the location indicator in the status bar expandable, allowing you to see which app is tracking your device's location.
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Google listing says Android PC OS, ‘Aluminium,’ will have ‘AI at the core’

As Google prepares to introduce its new Android experience for PCs next year, a new job listing is revealing some details around Google’s efforts and how that ties back to ChromeOS. That all brings us ...
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New Android Auto Updates Will No Longer Be Available for Some Android Phones

We've known for a while that Android Auto would eventually drop support for Android 8, but it now looks like this change is just around the corner. Google updated the ...