Description: Ever since smartphones started shipping with LED flashes, we’ve seen Flashlight apps flood app stores. At this point, how can a flashlight app stand out from the rest? Well, for one thing ...

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 ...

If you have a flashlight app on your phone you may be unwittingly sending your personal data, privacy information, and other sensitive details to cybercriminals around the world—doesn’t this just ...

If you’ve ever wondered what the point of those flashlight apps are, wonder no more: they are kick-butt investigation tools. The next time you need to crawl down a 150-foot electrical conduit and ...

The following is a guest post from Simon Bates, Senior Advisor, Policy & Initiatives at MEF. Have you ever wondered why something as simple as a flash-light app requests your location when you boot it ...

A fundamental and downright essential app on a smartphone is the flashlight. There are free flashlight apps for all platforms, and it is often the first app downloaded to a new phone. From the time ...

It was questionable whether Apple would approve LED flashlight apps. After all, having used the LED as a flashlight recently, I can tell you it will drain the battery faster than not having a big ...

No one should be downloading a flashlight app in the Year of Our Lord 2019 -- that's why both Google and Apple have integrated the ability into their devices as part of the base operating system.

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 ...

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If the flashlight won't work on your iPhone, you can usually troubleshoot the issue in a matter of minutes and get your trusty light shining again. A nearly exhausted battery can prevent an iPhone's ...

It’s Day 22 of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time and we’re inching closer to the elite eight! Swiftkey was eliminated by Duolingo in yesterday’s ...