Michelle is Lifehacker's Associate Tech Editor, and has been reviewing games, laptops, phones, and more for over 10 years. She is based in New York City and holds a master's degree from NYU. Multiple ...

Google rolled out the January 2026 update for its Pixel smartphones a tad late, fixing a whole bunch of issues on models released as far back as the Pixel 7a. While addressing known nuisances with ...

Google updated its Pixel phones earlier in May with a routine update. Some users surprisingly found their battery life plummeting. Why would a simple tweaks and fixes update do this? Google has now ...

Smartphones have come a long way in the past decade, but each new launch still seems to bring with it new bugs and issues that users often find themselves dealing with. Whether those issues are poor ...

Years later, the same issues persist ...