Hidden in your Android phone's developer options is the USB debugging switch. This useful setting is designed to let Android developers send data and commands between a computer and their phone, but ...

Hidden away in your Android phone's developer settings is a powerful feature called USB debugging. It's a special mode that opens a direct line of communication between your smartphone and a computer, ...

There are fewer reasons that would really require you to hook your Android phone up to your computer, but that doesn't mean that they don't exist. Maybe you have a personal music collection that you ...

The Android 15 Developer Preview 2 now requires users to authenticate themselves if they want to change USB modes. That means someone with your unlocked phone can’t access your data via a computer.