Change default iPhone and iPad apps under Settings > Apps > Default Apps. Options include browsers, messaging, contactless ...

With iOS 18.2, Apple has introduced a new option that lets iPhone users set third-party apps as the default for calls and messages. Now WhatsApp has finally released an update to support this API, ...

Default privacy settings in popular mobile apps seem like a convenience, allowing you to use a single setting to control the level of privacy—who can see which actions you take—across all of the app’s ...

Apple has offered some form of default app controls in the Settings app for years. But recently in iOS 18.2, the feature expanded with new categories and a dedicated hub. Now in iOS 18.4, the category ...

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Want to make Photoshop your default Image Editor? In this post, we will show you how to set Photoshop as the default app for opening and editing image files on a Windows 11/10 PC. Image files in ...

Android 15 will let you set a default note-taking app that can be launched from the lock screen. The default note-taking app can use Android’s content capture API to let users capture all or part of ...

There are plenty of ways you can tweak Windows and macOS to better suit your preferences and tastes—from changing the wallpaper to managing how programs launch—but one bunch of settings that are ...