Zach was an Author at Android Police from January 2022 to June 2025. He specialized in Chromebooks, Android smartphones, Android apps, smart home devices, and Android services. Zach loves unique and ...

Samsung’s One UI 7 update lets users choose to separate the notification and quick settings panels through the Separate option or keep the classic combined notification and quick settings panel.

I did not expect a third-party sidebar app to effectively replicate Samsung’s Edge Panel, a feature I missed when I switched ...

Google is reportedly working on a big change to Android 16’s notifications panel. The notification shade that the OS has used for years was introduced in Android 12, so it may be time to refresh it.

Quick: When’s the last time you really, truly thought about your Android device’s Quick Settings setup? The challenge, aside from simply remembering that you can expand that area of your phone’s ...

Explore Android 15 lock screen custom shortcuts and personalization tips to enhance convenience, boost efficiency, and tailor ...

When we talk about Android customization, we tend to focus on the home screen and the ocean of exceptional Android launchers that let you take total control of that environment. Few ...

Toggling your phone’s Wi-Fi or Bluetooth radio may only require a single tap in Android 16. As part of the overhauled Quick Settings panel, the Internet and Bluetooth tiles may be updated to support ...

Gestures have been a big deal in Android since well before Android 12 but the latest update packs in a new feature called Quick Tap that brings things to a new level. So the biggest reason you will ...

When he's not testing the latest phones or phone cameras, Andrew can normally be found with his own camera in hand or behind his drums or eating his stash of home-cooked food -- sometimes all at once.

Time-savers are some of tech’s sweetest treasures. Few things are as geekily satisfying as finding faster ways to get stuff done—and few places are as rich with step-slashing shortcuts as Google’s ...