iPhone and iPad owners are painfully aware that Apple only offers 5GB of iCloud storage for free. If you need additional cloud storage, you’ll need to pay Apple at least $0.99 a month. If you are one of the many iPhone owners that paid for an iCloud Plus subscription, you might receive a partial refund …
Apple announced a few days ago a series of security initiatives meant to protect children from online predators. The new features will be available in iMessage and iCloud Photos soon. One feature should help parents protect their children from abuse and offer younger iOS device users a warning about sensitive content they might receive via …
More than ever, users expect their electronics to keep their data private. Apple is at the forefront of the latest privacy push, with the iPhone maker having introduced various features to improve privacy and security over the years. The app privacy labels and anti-tracking features built into iOS 14 are the best examples of what …
If 2020 taught us anything, it was that our lives could be turned upside down without warning. In the harshest months of the pandemic, we learned that one has to be prepared for the unpredictable. You have to think a few steps ahead and assess all possible scenarios, even the less favorable ones. Like many …
Apple just launched a new online tool that will make it easier than ever to transfer all of the photos and videos in your iCloud Photo Library to Google Photos. The transfer process can take up to seven days depending on the size of your library, but nothing will be deleted. Rather, Apple will make …
Apple released a new Chrome extension that will benefit iPhone users who own Windows 10 desktops and laptops. The iCloud Passwords extension allows iPhone users to access on Windows 10 the iCloud Keychain passwords that were saved on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The Chrome extension also lets Windows users save new login information into iCloud …
While Apple remains steadfast in its refusal to help the FBI unlock a pair of iPhones belonging to Florida shooter Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, the company did admit that it handed over to the FBI gigabytes of Alshamrani’s data, a haul that included his iCloud backups. This is possible because although iCloud backups are encrypted, Apple …
While Apple can’t unlock an end-to-end encrypted iPhone for the police, the company can access iCloud data and share it with law enforcement. That’s because Apple also holds the keys to iCloud backups. But Apple planned a few years ago to let users fully encrypt iCloud backups, but the feature was never released. A new …
Following the Verizon outage on Tuesday morning, the Gmail and YouTube issue on Tuesday night, and the “server configuration change” that took down Facebook and Instagram for hours on Wednesday, Apple has decided to join in on the fun with an outage of its own. According to the System Status dashboard on Apple’s site, virtually …
In yet another sign of the mobile-first world we live in, even muggings and robberies are starting to take on a tech-savvy flair. As was the case during one 2017 incident in Washington DC, for example, when a woman was leaving a metro station and a teenager got the drop on her, grabbing her around …
