Starting with iOS and iPadOS 14, Apple broke its long-standing closed ecosystem tradition and allowed users to change their default browser and mail app. While this was a step in the right direction, ...

You can easily make Google Chrome the default browser on your Android phone. The process only takes five steps.

To make Google Chrome the default browser on your iPhone, you'll need to download iOS 14 and then open its Settings page.

Apple has offered some form of default app controls in the Settings app for years. But recently in iOS 18.2, the feature expanded with new categories and a dedicated hub. Now in iOS 18.4, the category ...

Want to make Photoshop your default Image Editor? In this post, we will show you how to set Photoshop as the default app for opening and editing image files on a Windows 11/10 PC. Image files in ...

iPhone users can now get setup so that WhatsApp is their default messaging and calling app. If your iPhone is updated to iOS 18.2 then the functionality is already available for you right now. This ...

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One of the enduring legacies of the '90s browser wars has been an outsize attention to how Microsoft handles default app settings in Windows, especially browser settings. The company plans to make it ...

Default privacy settings in popular mobile apps seem like a convenience, allowing you to use a single setting to control the level of privacy—who can see which actions you take—across all of the app’s ...

Android 15 will let you set a default note-taking app that can be launched from the lock screen. The default note-taking app can use Android’s content capture API to let users capture all or part of ...