Here’s how Apple’s built-in 2FA system protects your data across devices ...

If your iPhone ends up in the hands of someone trying to extract your personal information, this hidden feature will likely stop them from hacking you.

1. Tap Settings. 2. Tap Privacy & Security. 3. Tap Background Security Improvements near the bottom of the menu. 4. Tap the toggle next to Automatically Install. Now your iPhone will download small ...

The new security feature makes it more difficult for police and malicious hackers to obtain a person's precise location data ...

Last month, among all the usual email I received was an anxious missive from a TidBITS reader—we’ll call her Beverley, largely because that’s her name. While walking down the street in El Calafate, a ...

Recently, it looked like a minor iPhone update was coming, but then it vanished without trace. Now, it’s just gone live.

“The iPhone was found powered on and charging, and its display noted that the phone was in ‘Lockdown’ mode,” representatives ...

Apple has made an unusual move by officially recommending iOS 26.1 as the standard update for all iPhone users, pushing it to the forefront of update screens in early December 2025. The company ...

Security patches stand between your Apple devices and danger. Graphic: Google Gemini When Apple needs to install a security patch onto an iPhone, iPad or Mac, it now does so without requiring the user ...