How many phone numbers do you know by heart? Relying on tech to remember such things can feel precarious, but there are just too many details for our brains to store. So it makes sense to defer to our ...

As high-tech and advanced as all our modern mobile devices are, there's no way of getting around basic user errors. Luckily, the makers of your mobile devices kept such errors in mind. That is why we ...

Most of us have lost our phone, damaged it, or had it stolen at one point in time. For some of us, it's happened more than once. Unfortunately, it's an inevitability in life. In fact, more than 2 ...

Your Android phone is full of important data, including photos, videos, contacts, messages, and apps. If you lose your phone or it breaks, you could lose all of this data. That's why it's important to ...

Losing contacts on your iPhone can be a disaster. Whether it’s a lead for a great new job, a potential romantic partner, or an old friend that you’ve been meaning to call, if you open the Contacts app ...

Losing iPhone contacts can be frustrating, but there are several ways to recover them, especially if you act quickly. iPhones do not have a straightforward option for restoring deleted contacts like ...

iCloud offers an easy way to back up your data on your iPhone. Apple provides 5 GB of free iCloud storage, which can fill up quickly when you back up your photos, videos, and app data. Depending on ...

There's really nothing worse than losing a phone and also losing everything on it—photos, videos, contacts, the works. But it's pretty easy to prevent that because cloud services allow users to back ...

Don't want to lose your precious data? We've got you covered, even if you're running out of iCloud space. As Managing Editor, I lead CNET's mobile team, covering news and reviews on smartphones, ...

Backing up your iPhone is crucial, but iTunes and iClouds can be fiddly and slow, and don't let you perform partial backups. We explore an alternative approach Want to know the first three pieces of ...