A flashlight is a basic tool that's good to have as part of any emergency kit. They come in various sizes and different brightness levels. It's also an item that most of us carry around in our pockets ...

A future Android update will add a native flashlight brightness slider to the Quick Settings on Pixel phones. The latest Android Canary release introduces a new visual design for this slider that ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover cybersecurity and entrepreneurship. This article is more than 10 years old. A popular Android flashlight app has been ...

This past December, we reported that a popular Android app called Brightest Flashlight could do more than just shine light. Brightest Flashlight was a simple flashlight app that was highly-rated and ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. Whoever realized that using the flash on a smartphone camera as a flashlight was a smart secondary use idea is ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

Android 16 QPR3 will finally let you adjust the brightness of your Pixel’s flashlight from the Quick Settings Tile. If you have the 2×1 QS Tile, tapping the circle (which morphs into a rounded square) ...

That innocent Flashlight App you installed on your device to shed light on certain situations is also spying on you, and potentially selling or using your personal data. Especially vulnerable are ...

Android Quick Settings will get a flashlight brightness slider with beam-style UI and percent display. Android lags behind iPhone, which has had adjustable brightness since 2020. Rollout still far out ...