Want to change your default web browser in Windows 11? If your links keep opening in Microsoft Edge instead of Google Chrome, ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

With the release of Windows 11, Microsoft revamped the look and feel of Windows. The update brought several welcome changes to the operating system, such as widgets, UI, and other new features.

When you set up a new iPhone, you'll notice a wide range of preinstalled apps. Naturally, these apps act as the default for their respective purposes, such as iOS 17 defaulting to Apple Music for ...

When you’re performing certain tasks on your phone, you’ll often only want one app to do it for you. This is where default apps come in, and it’s pretty easy to set, change, and remove them on your ...

Apple’s first developer beta for iOS 18.2 is full of big and small features for iPhone users. The highlight is new Apple Intelligence features, but there’s also a nice change coming for users who like ...

Changing the default messaging app on your Android device is a straightforward process that allows you to customize your texting experience to your liking. Here are five methods to help you switch to ...

The iPhone for years has offered some options for setting new default apps. For example, in iOS 14 you could set new defaults for email and browser. But the options have remained pretty limited. In ...

Whether or not you change phones frequently or stick to your trusty device for a few good years, the choice of default apps usually remains the same. And it's perfectly fine. My friends give me weird ...

Here is the easiest way to set the default Mail app on iOS. While it hasn’t always been the case, Apple has allowed users to customise default apps in recent years. Meaning not everyone has to use ...

In iOS 18.2, Apple introduced a way for users to select their preferred default apps for iPhone. Apple initially promised that the feature would be coming to the European Union, but it is actually ...

A default app is the one you'd like your operating system to use to open certain files or links. Understandably, out of the box, Android defaults to Google applications. For instance, the default web ...