Have you ever gotten a new phone only to find out it’s locked to a specific carrier? This often happens when you purchase a subsidized phone from a carrier. The carrier locks the phone so you can’t ...

According to a new reader survey, a large portion of respondents choose not to secure their SIM cards using a PIN.

SIM PINs help protect you from attackers intercepting 2FA codes. Manually entering the PIN on boot can get annoying, though. With Android 17, Google is building a new system for letting the phone ...

Android 17 beta 2, which rolled out last month, included strings for a new automatic SIM lock protection feature. The latest Android Canary build brings this feature, showing it off in action. This ...

Android 17 Beta 2 just dropped, and as you might expect, people are already diving in to see what's new. Of course, others are diving in even further, analyzing code to see what might eventually ...