Category: Phones & Tablets

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

Phone Not Receiving Calls? Check Silence Unknown Callers and Do Not Disturb

Missed calls that never ring are usually a filtering setting rather than a network fault. Four settings account for nearly all of…

Rotation lock is the cause nine times out of ten. When it is not, a sensor calibration or a single misbehaving app…

Personal Hotspot fails for a short list of reasons, and half of them are your mobile plan rather than the phone.

Being unable to take a photo is the point where storage stops being an annoyance. Here is the fastest route to usable…

Charging speed is set by the weakest link between charger, cable, port and battery. Here is how to test each in turn.

Which kind of message is failing tells you where the fault is. Green versus blue, and text versus picture, narrow it down…

Identical-looking USB-C cables differ enormously in what they can carry. Here is how to tell which one is holding your charging back.

The decision comes down to the phone's remaining value, whether the touch layer still works, and how long it will keep getting…

A blurry phone camera is usually a greasy lens or autofocus hunting in low light. Genuine camera failure has a distinctive look…

A black screen usually means a flat battery or a frozen system, not a dead phone. The force restart and the charging…

Tablets need far more power than phones, so a charger that works on your phone often will not charge a tablet at…

Storage warnings rarely mean too many photos. It is usually app cache, downloaded media and years of message attachments.