What was long considered impossible has now been a reality for almost four years: iPhone owners are allowed to pick their own default apps for core functions such as email, phone, messaging, and web ...

Your Mac comes pre-configured to open specific file types with default apps. Click on a web link, and it launches Safari. Open an email notification, and you're directed to Apple's Mail app. This ...

Do you want to open a file type or link with a specific app? Here's how to change the default app settings on Windows 11. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Apple has a contentious relationship with allowing users to choose default apps on iPhone and iPad, and it has been the subject of a lot of legal action around the world. Imagine our surprise, then, ...

With iOS and iPadOS 14, Apple opened its walled garden and finally let users change their default browser and mail app. While this was a step in the right direction, you still can't change your ...

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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 ...

One of the major advantages of the Android operating system over iOS is its more extensive customization support. Android not only lets you change the default home screen launcher but also the default ...

Windows 11 is home to a vast selection of third-party apps. A number of developers have built apps that give Microsoft's default offerings a run for their money. Some of these apps are recent releases ...

I am working on creating new Windows10 images for our organization. I am using CopyProfile during sysprep to create a default Windows profile with all our settings. For some reason the default app ...