The iPhone offers strong end-to-end encryption for all your data, and that's a great feature to have on the most important computer in your life. But that encryption is only as good as the PIN or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apple has steadily made the iPhone more secure over the past few years, but the device certainly isn’t, nor has it ever been, ...

Apple believes that needing both the iPhone and its passcode makes it harder for thieves to steal users' information, but having both stolen is common enough, that you need to know how to protect ...

Getting your iPhone stolen is a nightmare. Even worse is when the crook locks you out of your own phone. To make matters turn from terrible to impossible is when Apple can't help you get access to ...

Losing the password of their iOS devices can prove frustrating and stressful, as most users rely on them for everyday tasks. Its causes can range from a lapse in memory to an unintended lockout. This ...

Joanna Stern and Nicole Nguyen of the Wall Street Journal have published an article (paywalled) and accompanying video that describes a troubling spate of attacks reported by individuals and police ...

Having an unlocked iPhone–without so much as a four-digit barrier between you and some subway snatcher–is asking for trouble. Four-digit passcodes or PINs were the only way to secure the earliest ...

Do you need to unlock an iPhone without a passcode? Whether you're dealing with a locked-out device, an iPhone hand-me-down or a software malfunction, passcode issues are frustrating to deal with—no ...

The iPhone has fairly decent parental controls built in: you access most of these via Settings > General > Restrictions, from where you can choose which apps, services and actions (such as installing ...

Apple has steadily made the iPhone more secure over the past few years, but the device certainly isn't, nor has it ever been, impenetrable. As Apple has beefed up iOS security over time, hackers and ...