Phone and tablet makers have been finding ingenious ways to put those devices to use when they’re not in your hands. Take Google, which turns its Pixel Tablet into a quasi-smart display when it’s ...

With the full-screen StandBy mode, you can use the always-on iPhone 15 Pro as an alarm clock, kitchen timer or photo gallery while it charges. Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on ...

StandBy is a customizable Lock Screen mode in iOS 17 that activates only when an ‌iPhone‌ is positioned on its side (i.e. horizontally in landscape orientation) while connected to a charging cable, a ...

Now that iOS 17 is out in the wild, consumers are getting hands-on time with many just-released iPhone features. One of the neater inclusions is the brand-new StandBy mode. This toolset transforms ...

iOS 17.1 beta 2 has arrived, coming one week after the release of the first beta. Today’s update includes some new changes to StandBy, and also the return of the ringtones that were included in iOS 17 ...

The full capabilities of iOS 17 were shown off at this year's WWDC with a long list of new features. One feature mentioned didn't really stand out to me at the time but since downloading the public ...