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You should regularly take a moment to check on your iPhone’s battery life. And given how easy Apple made it starting…

It never fails. Right when you’ve got your hands full, or you’re doing dishes and they’re covered in soap, or you’re…

You’ve long been able to add some quirky effects to your Clips videos in iOS, but iOS 14.5 brings new…

Even if your social media threats are more a whimper or an annoyance than a full-scale war from internet strangers,…

Welcome back to another week of Lifehacker’s tech-advice column, Tech 911. And thanks to everyone who sent in their…

Stop what you’re doing, install Steam on your desktop or laptop PC (if you haven’t already), and go hit up the store…

iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5 are officially hitting iPhones and iPads next week, but you don’t have to wait until then to…

I’m a bit of a gadget hoarder. I often tend to assume that I can repurpose some old thing—an ancient phone, tablet,…

Whether the loophole lasts a day, month, or forever, a new “Facebook Email Search” program again shows why you might…

Security researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia took to Twitter the other day to warn about a new scam making the…

It’s Apple day! And just when I was starting to wonder if the world still had the capacity to get excited about…

Tab overload is real, as my crowded Edge and Chrome browser bars can attest. But what about... window overload? If…

If you want to export your Facebook posts for any reason (I’ll leave it to you to decide why), you can now dump…

Jumping into the full suite of Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps is an expensive proposition: a $53/month setback (as of…

Google just dropped a great new keyboard shortcut that you can use to refine your search queries, and while it’s not…

Hi! I’ve been writing Lifehacker’s esteemed Tech 911 advice column for three years and running, with a new…

Chrome 90 is here, and a number of fun features you’re getting are all automatic—no action needed on your part.…

Does this sound familiar? You’ve taken such good care of your older MacBook that Tim Cook himself wouldn’t be able…

The Oculus Quest 2 is perhaps the first of all the virtual reality headsets I’ve used over the years that’s been…

When you can’t hear anything from your YouTube videos—either nothing at all, or that which was once loud is now way…