Log in and check deleted or archived photo sections. This matters because photos often still exist on phones, tablets, or laptops you stopped using. Even broken devices can sometimes be recovered.

Before you select the factory reset option for an old phone, make sure you've gone through these steps before its too late.

Over on the iPhone, file management duties are handled by the Files app developed by Apple. There are three main tabs here to ...

Picture this: you've just snapped the perfect photo or taken a stellar screenshot on your Android smartphone. You're excited ...

I'm tired of how system storage works on both Android and iPhone. Over time, it quietly eats into your phone's storage with cached files, system data, and app leftovers, especially when you're already ...

If you're anxious to see that everything important from your old phone makes it to the new one, here are some tips to make that happen.

Bringing an app back, also called restoring it, is just as easy. All you have to do is tap the app’s icon and choose Restore.

Turn your old Android phone into a cheap NAS using SMB apps like Cx File Explorer. Learn how to host network files and sync storage without buying a new server.

That photo you deleted last year? Still recoverable. Kim Komando reveals the cloud backup trap and factory reset failures ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As a person who covers consumer tech for a living, I get to use a few dozen smartphones every year. While I almost always advise on which is the ...