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 ...

Tech reporters Nicole Nguyen and Joanna Stern of the Wall Street Journal are back with a follow-up on their exposé of Apple’s problematic iPhone security design decisions. In the first article, they ...

My 8 year old relative got hold of my iPhone and tried a few passcodes before she got locked out. She tried just three or four times, then got a black screen with the Apple logo and a progress bar. I ...

Although the iPhone does allow you to setup a lockscreen passcode, it doesn’t give much flexibility in choosing one, allowing you to set only a four-digit passcode. If that doesn’t pass your security ...

After playing around with it in beta versions for several months, WhatsApp has finally begun rolling out a new feature called Locked Chats to millions of users around the globe. The feature lets users ...

The Notes app, particularly paired with iCloud syncing, provides an easy way to jot down shopping lists, share information with other people, and record your private thoughts. But because some people ...

Strings within the Google Home app suggest that new functionality related to passcodes is coming to the app. While this could be for future hardware releases, there’s a chance that this is existing ...

Sometimes my nephew will want to watch a monster truck video on YouTube, so I'll pull up a video and hand him my iPhone. But if I take my eyes off him for a moment, he finds a way to shoot a video on ...

Locking your iPhone is essential if you want to keep your data secure from thieves, hackers, and general snooping. But if you forgot your passcode, your day can suddenly become much, much more ...