If your main computer runs Windows but your phone is an iPhone, the ecosystem gap is real. These apps make the setup far less frustrating.

Whether it's human error, a hardware mishap, cybercrime, theft or natural disaster, the chances that you or someone you know will lose important data or photos is extremely high. Despite these risks, ...

Replacing Dropbox with Syncthing, for most users, will feel like a drop-in replacement as long as you know exactly what you're looking for in a tool.

Another Apple feature called AirDrop makes it super simple for Apple phone, tablet and computer users to magically transfer ...

Android Switch is Google’s official iOS switching app for moving from an iPhone to an Android phone. It does work wirelessly, but if you have a cable you can connect the two handsets with, you can ...

Google is finally rolling out Drive’s new local file backup feature for Android devices. We’ve been tracking the feature for months and can tell you exactly how it would work. Android will use Google ...

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Android’s built-in backup system has always been useful for saving your settings, apps, photos, and some app data automatically. However, it has a glaring flaw. Files saved in the Downloads folder are ...

For many of us, phones are our lifelines to our work and personal lives. If that phone goes AWOL - whether lost or stolen, accidentally broken in a drop, or deactivated due to a SIM swap - we would be ...

According to the latest release notes for Google Play services, Android phones will be getting a “new local file backup feature” powered by Google Drive. “Local file backup” sounds like a ...

Want Google out of your life? It's pretty easy to find alternative search, email, and photo storage providers, but it's much harder to come up with a mobile operating system that's free of Google. The ...