Category: Phones & Tablets

iPhone, Android, iPad and tablet fixes — battery, charging, storage, updates and screens.

Phone Gets Hot During Video Calls? Why It Happens and How to Cool It Down

Video calls are one of the heaviest things a phone does. Here is what generates the heat, what is normal, and the…

Car Bluetooth dropouts usually come from a stale pairing, a crowded device list, or battery optimisation killing the connection. Work through these…

OLED burn-in is permanent, but most faint marks people panic about are temporary image retention. Here is how to tell the difference…

Every modern tablet can become an extra display. Here are the built-in options, the third-party ones, and which method to use for…

Night photos are blurry because the shutter stays open longer. Here is how to work with that rather than against it.

A phone that suddenly cannot see its SIM is usually a dirty contact, a loose tray, or a software glitch.

A tablet that loses half its charge sitting in a drawer has something keeping it awake, or a worn battery.

A phone that stays silent for calls is usually a focus mode, a per-contact setting, or the ringer volume being a separate…

Repairs often involve a factory reset, and your phone will be in someone else’s hands. Here is the checklist.

Magnetic keyboards fail on dirty contacts; Bluetooth ones fail on pairing. Different problems, different fixes.

Phones throttle hard when hot, which is why frame rates drop after ten minutes. Here is how to delay that.

Most cases are harmless. Metal plates, thick wallets and certain magnetic mounts genuinely do affect reception and charging.