Shining a light on a shady app.

Flashlight apps are a dying breed. Google began adding them to Android as early as Lollipop, and OEMs have included them on their OEM skins for far longer. The need for this dwindles as the market ...

The flashlight app on your smartphone might work in a pinch, but when you really need a reliable light source, nothing beats a dedicated flashlight. A far cry from the weak incandescent versions you ...

It’s day 30 of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time and we now know the first of our two final players. With more than 71 percent of the vote, the people have ...

It's a tool that comes in handy often. Since the dawn of the smartphone, the back-facing camera array's LED camera flash has led a double life as a flashlight. Most modern smartphones now have an ...

The following is a guest post from Simon Bates, Senior Advisor, Policy & Initiatives at MEF. Have you ever wondered why something as simple as a flash-light app requests your location when you boot it ...

Your iPhone and Samsung phone flashlights have hidden controls for brightness, beam width and voice commands that most people have never tried.