Dial these secret short codes on your phone to unlock hidden settings, secret menus, and powerful features most users never discover.

Several of Samsung's Galaxy phones and tablets are now stuffed with AI features -- whether you use them or not. While some can be helpful if you remember to use them, many may be enabled but are left ...

The new Call Filtering setting in iOS 26 lets iPhone users silence unknown or spam calls. You can enable it under Phone ...

Phone users have a new tool to combat the scourge of nuisance phone calls: a virtual gatekeeper that can screen incoming ...

Secret Service agents said they foiled a plot by foreign actors to take out cell phone networks in New York City, including jamming 911 calls. NBC News’ Kelly O ...

Neon, a service that pays you for recordings of your phone calls and then sells those to AI companies for training data, seems set to return in the wake of a privacy breach. The app swiftly went viral ...

A new feature for iPhones screens calls, similar to a technology available for Android users. Here’s how to activate it. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer ...

DEAR ABBY: I remarried several years after my first wife passed away. I thought they were different people, but they share one maddening trait. They refuse to use the phone! Of course they talk to the ...

Russia is torturing Ukrainian prisoners with electric shocks to their genitals from a Soviet-era telephone in a cruel method known as making a “call to Putin,” according to a shocking United Nations ...

Google documents have indicated that Pixel phones were expanding support for call recording, and today we get an official announcement. Pixel 6 and newer hardware that doesn’t support Call Notes will ...

Fitch joins other attorneys general looking to curb the orchestration of crime within prison walls. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch has joined with more than 20 attorneys general in other ...

With iOS 26, Apple has expanded its native call recording feature with transcripts, Live Translation, summaries and tighter integration with Notes. It’s a more polished and useful tool than before, ...