Editorial
Editorial Masthead and Team
Fone.tips has published tested phone, app, and OS troubleshooting guides since 2018. This page tells you who writes them, how we review them, and what we do when a fix stops working.
Editorial Standards
Every guide on fone.tips is tested on real hardware before it ships, written for a general reader, and updated when a major OS release breaks the steps. We don't accept review units from manufacturers, and affiliate relationships never influence what we recommend — when a free tool is the right answer, we say so.
The full version lives on our editorial policy page, including how we handle corrections, fact-checking, and removals. If you spot an error, email contact@fone.tips and we'll respond within 48 hours.
Our Team
Articles on fone.tips carry the Fone.tips Editorial Team byline. The named editors below are the humans behind that byline — each owns a beat, tests fixes on their own devices, and signs off on the guides in their area.
Review Methodology
We use the same four-stage process on every guide we publish or rewrite. It's the reason readers can follow step 4 and have it work.
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1. Plan and research
The assigned editor reads the top search results for the topic, identifies the differentiator we can add (a tested fix, a measurement, a clearer step), and pulls primary sources — Apple support docs, Google support, vendor changelogs, official forum posts.
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2. Test on real hardware
Every fix in a guide is reproduced on the editor's own devices. We list the model and OS version we tested on at the top of the guide when the fix is version-specific. We don't paraphrase steps from a video tutorial we never ran.
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3. Editor review
A second editor reads the draft, checks every external link, verifies the citation phrasing matches the linked source, and walks through the steps on a separate device when feasible. Mechanical checks (link counts, dead links, formatting, banned vocabulary) run as a separate automated gate before publication.
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4. Update on OS releases
When Apple, Google, Samsung, or Microsoft ships a major OS release, we re-test the guides most likely to be affected. If a fix no longer works, we either rewrite it, replace it with the new working method, or remove the guide and redirect the URL. Updated dates on each article reflect the last verification pass.
Newsroom Contact
For corrections, tip submissions, or editorial questions, the fastest channel is email. Our contact page lists what to include for the quickest response. We aim to reply within two business days, and within 24 hours for corrections that affect the accuracy of a published guide.
- Corrections and tips: contact@fone.tips
- Editorial questions: hello@fone.tips
- Public channel: @istarsoft on X