Apple’s Digital ID can be convenient for travelers, and also a privacy nightmare that someday allows governments to track citizens.

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Learn about five important but optional features that are available on iPhone that you can turn on to ensure extra privacy and security.

The UK demands a secret backdoor into iCloud accounts and isn’t backing down, no matter what the Trump administration said.

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The United Kingdom gives up its demand for a backdoor into encrypted Apple iCloud accounts worldwide.

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iOS 26 brings enhanced Wi-Fi network indicators in the Control Center, including privacy status and security icons for connectivity insights.

Dropbox has announced its plans to discontinue Dropbox Passwords, an app that lets users store usernames, passwords, & payment information.

Spotify just leaked private playlists of famous people, and your personal music could be exposed too because of broken privacy settings.

TikTok has launched Family Pairing, a new set of parental controls to enable parents to monitor both consumption and upload of videos by teens.

Safari comes with loads of privacy features that can keep your browsing activity hidden from ad networks, user tracking and data farms.

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Microsoft has discovered a Spotlight-related exploit in macOS that could enable attackers to steal private metadata from apps.

Learn how to hide all images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in the image search results in DuckDuckGo on an iPhone, iPad and Mac.

The United Kingdom government reportedly had to give up its demand for a backdoor into encrypted Apple iCloud accounts.

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The RecordConfirm jailbreak tweak ensures that the user gets a chance to cancel a voice recording from the Voice Memos app before it starts.

If you'd like to delete your query history from the ChatGPT app on macOS, iPadOS, or iOS, then we have a step-by-step tutorial showing you how.

Apple updated parental controls in iOS 26 and other operating systems with new child safety features, like permission to text new numbers.

Apple system securely shares the age range of children with apps, and prevents kids from communicating with new people without permission.

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WhatsApp will let you sign in to the service with a username instead of your phone number for increased privacy when messaging and texting.

Meta is rolling out a small but important privacy tweak in WhatsApp to ensure messages you've deleted are also removed from quoted replies.

What does the orange dot on your iPhone mean — and while we’re at it, how about the green dot? It can appear randomly in the Dynamic Island.

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macOS 16 will improve clipboard privacy on your Mac by displaying a banner if an app tries to read the things you've copied and pasted.