A cleaner, faster Android starts with getting rid of these apps.

Is your Android device feeling sluggish? Over time, various factors can contribute to slower performance, but the good news is that you can take actionable steps to restore its speed and efficiency.

Is your Android phone starting to feel sluggish? Are your apps taking forever to load? Don't trade it in just yet. That doesn't always mean you need to buy a new phone. Devices naturally slow down ...

If your Android phone has become so painfully slow that you're starting to miss your old flip phone, don't rush out to buy a new one. Your phone isn't broken; it's just suffocating under all the ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As a person who covers consumer tech for a living, I get to use a few dozen smartphones every year. While I almost always advise on which is the ...

Nothing gets in the way of using a mobile device more than lag and bogged-down performance. Unfortunately, this is bound to happen with most phones and tablets, but you can take advantage of some ...

A few years ago, we could only send plain text messages with 160 characters. There was no option to include any media or attachments, which kept the messages close to 140 bytes. But the Messages app ...

How to Check Battery Health on Android with built-in settings, diagnostic codes, and apps to understand battery wear and ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. Jason Chun is a CNET writer covering a ...