Your smartphone is full of surprises. There's an app if you want to use your phone as a magnifying glass or scanner. Tap or click here for hidden apps on your smartphone and how to find them.

As smartphones have become more and more ubiquitous, so have QR codes. These maze-looking squares are a type of matrix bar code that contains data — usually, QR codes point to a website or open a ...

Not all smartphones require a third-party app to scan QR codes. Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson shows you how to scan codes using ...

Google is rolling out a new QR code sharing feature in Quick Share that lets Android users transfer files to iPhones without ...

Google has started rolling out a new Quick Share feature that lets Android users share files with iPhones using QR codes. iPhone users can scan the QR code through the Camera app, after which the file ...

File sharing between Android and iPhone is about to get even easier ...

You don’t need an app for this —your phone can do it already. You don’t need an app for this —your phone can do it already. The humble QR (or Quick Response) code has become ubiquitous. Invented back ...

The feature is designed to make sharing between both Android and iOS easier. Phones that don't support it yet will be able to generate a QR code through the Quick Share menu.

This feature is for Android devices that don’t offer AirDrop support in Quick Share. Google is rolling out a new feature on Quick Share on Android ...

Google is introducing a major update to Quick Share on Android, making it easier for users to transfer files directly to iPhones and other iOS devices. The company officially revealed the new QR ...

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