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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Face ID, Touch ID, iris scanners, physical security keys, 6-digit PINs, swipe passcodes—you name it. All ...

If you’re an iPhone user, your Notes app is likely filled with stuff (like your amateur poetry and passwords) that you don’t want other people to read. Apple knows that too, which is why iOS lets you ...

Thieves are targeting iPhone owners by exploiting a security setting on the device. Once the smartphone is accessed by the criminal, owners can essentially be locked out of their own devices and Apple ...

Elcomsoft claims its iOS Forensic Toolkit can now extract certain pieces of data from an iOS device before it has been unlocked. Almost all of the data stored on an iPhone or iPad is securely ...

Last year I gave an unused iPhone 7 to a friend of mine, to get her off her crappier Android phone. She entered iCloud credentials and set it up, but then she never transferred the SIM, and she stuck ...

A complex but concerning method of gaining control over a user's iPhone and permanently locking them out the device appears to be on the rise, CNN reported. Some iPhone thieves are exploiting a ...

Apple released iOS 15 on Monday and there's already a vulnerability making the rounds. Security researcher Jose Rodriguez published a video Monday detailing how he was able to bypass the lock screen ...