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Nothing has infected your phone. Something you installed has permission, and the fix is a list in settings.

A phone will happily run a keyboard, a mouse and a memory stick. It will not power a desktop hard drive.

Hard and fast are different things. Almost every game confuses them, and these do not.

The best party game on a phone is the one nobody has to read the rules of.

On the day, nobody installs anything. Whatever is already on the phone is what you have.

The lock screen on a diary app stops a flatmate. It does not stop much else.

A charger on a map is a claim. The last four check-ins are the evidence.

An app that gives the answer and an app that teaches the method look identical from the sofa.

The warning light is not the problem. It is a question, and a cheap adapter turns it into a sentence.

Nobody goes self employed for the bookkeeping, and nobody gets out of it either.

Android keeps apps in memory on purpose. Clearing them means loading them again, which is the expensive part.

Before booking a repair, find out whether it is the hardware, one app, or the network doing it.

Half the apps called Solitaire are a currency system with a card game printed on top.

A fighting game on a touchscreen is a different genre wearing the same name, and some of them are excellent at it.

The room is the same room. What differs is the fee, the cancellation date and who answers when it goes wrong.

A coverage map is a prediction. The number your own phone reports is a measurement.

The pass is the easy part. The reservations are what catch people out, and they sell out quietly.

A tracker that demands a weight for every ingredient gets abandoned by Thursday.

The plan matters more than the app, and the plan is nine weeks of walking less and running more.

Most people who want to get better at chess play more games. That is the one thing that does the least.

A memory card is the cheapest storage you will ever buy and the least reliable place to keep anything.

Full bars and nothing loading is a different fault from no bars at all, and they have different causes.

The appeal is not winning. It is reversing a trailer into a loading bay at the second attempt.

The store size is the beginning. Several of these download as much again the first time you open them.