In this talk, I will present some results on unique continuation for semilinear wave and Schrödinger equations with analytic nonlinearities. After recalling some motivation and classical results on the topic, I will describe a new method, introduced in a joint work with Camille Laurent (CNRS, LMR), that relies on analyticity-in-time regularization in finite time for solutions vanishing on a subset satisfying the Geometric Control Condition (GCC). The proof combines tools from control theory with ideas of Hale and Raugel on the regularity of attractors in dynamical systems. In a more recent work, we refined this approach and applied it to Schrödinger equations on compact manifolds, showing that the GCC suffices for unique continuation, thus answering in the affirmative an open problem posed by Dehman, Gérard, and Lebeau (2006) for the nonlinear case. The method is abstract and can also be applied to study similar questions for other PDEs.