Android's handy flashlight feature is helpful during power outages. Though if you are not in danger of facing an immediate outage, you'd likely want a flashlight to check dark corners for missing ...

A future Android update will add a native flashlight brightness slider to the Quick Settings on Pixel phones. The latest Android Canary release introduces a new visual design for this slider that ...

A flashlight is a basic tool that's good to have as part of any emergency kit. They come in various sizes and different brightness levels. It's also an item that most of us carry around in our pockets ...

Flashlight apps are a dying breed. Google began adding them to Android as early as Lollipop, and OEMs have included them on their OEM skins for far longer. The need for this dwindles as the market ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Using the smartphone's rear camera flash as a flashlight is one of the nice-to-have features in a handset. Smartphone vendors figured out ...

The new Android 13 Developer Preview build introduces a small, but useful change for the owners of Google Pixel phones: the flashlight function is now added to Quick Tap. Quick Tap was added last year ...

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Smartphones are the Swiss army knives of the 21st century. Whether we’re talking about iPhones or Android phones, they can do nearly anything you’d want a digital device to do, from playing music and ...

All smartphones nowadays have flashlights on them. While users typically use them for the camera flash, they also come in handy when walking through dark places. According to Esper Blog, Android 13 ...

Up to 7.5 million Android users could have fallen victim to malware that posed as a series of flashlight and other utility apps downloaded from the official Google Play Store. Dubbed LightsOut by the ...