Apple’s latest AirDrop tweak eliminates a frustrating tradeoff, reducing exposure to strangers while keeping file sharing ...

Safeguarding your personal data on iOS 26 is more critical than ever. With increasing concerns about data collection by corporations, data brokers, and governments, taking control of your privacy ...

Apple released iOS 26 on Sept. 15 and the update brought a lot of new features to your iPhone, but more important it included some improved privacy measures against digital fingerprinting. Everyone ...

First-time users of Apple products might not appreciate the closed walls of the ecosystem at first — there's a lot more you can do on Windows and Android compared to macOS and iOS, after all. However, ...

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Apple may be preparing to add end-to-end encryption to RCS messages, with new clues spotted in the iOS 26.3 beta pointing to ...

Apple has given a detailed summary its iOS privacy policy to two members of the U.S. House of Representatives who inquired about changes that were implemented in June. Reps. Joe Barton (R-Texas) and ...

Apple introduced the Background Security Improvements feature in iOS 26.1, but there hasn’t been any deployment of it yet for ...

Italy’s competition regulator today issued a fine of €98.63 million, or about $116 million, to Apple Inc. over the ATT privacy feature in iOS. The technology has also drawn antitrust scrutiny in other ...

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Because we do most things on digital devices these days, we may leave our digital fingerprints everywhere. CNET senior writer Attila Tomaschek told me that digital fingerprints consist of pieces of ...