Ditch the Doomscrolling: How an App and a Couple NFC Tags Keep Me Off My Phone Devices like Brick lock you out of your most distracting apps, but it also costs $60. I figured out how to do the same ...

You can use NFC tags with smart home platforms like Home Assistant, Apple Home, and Google Home by creating automations using a smartphone and the relevant companion app. Scan the tag to trigger a ...

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. NFC tags are simple. A phone reads up to a few hundred bytes of data from a low-power chip, which tells it to perform an action like ...

There are plenty of ways to trigger smart home automations. Schedules are great for things that you need to happen at the same time each day, and motion sensors are a good way to make automations ...

I've been writing about Android since 2011, with a focus on device reviews, Samsung and Google Pixel hardware, and the latest happenings in the ecosystem. In my entire writing career, I've reviewed ...