Not all smartphones require a third-party app to scan QR codes. Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson shows you how to scan codes using iPhone or Androids.

Google updated APIs responsible for the barcode and QR code scanning to allow them to auto-zoom when a possible barcode or QR code is detected. This feature could soon roll out to Android 13 and above ...

With iOS 27, you can add loyalty cards, membership cards, and gift cards to Apple Wallet. Here’s how.

Here’s one more app you can delete from your iPhone: that QR code and barcode scanner you only occasionally use. With an update rolling out today, Google’s Chrome mobile browser can do the job instead ...

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While you can use your iPhone's Camera app to automatically scan QR codes by just holding the camera in front of the QR code and taping a pop-up, traditional barcodes are a different matter because ...

Everywhere you look at the South by Southwest conference this week, you see QR codes. The square “quick response” codes turn URLs, vCards, or any kind of text into a jumble of pixels that you can scan ...

I was playing around on my iPhone the other day and happened to use 3D Touch on the icon for the Google Chrome Web browser. Imagine my surprise when one of the “quick actions” that Chrome presented ...