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 ...

If you don't want others to browse your Facebook when they borrow your iPhone, you should try this out. Pictured: A website with a meme of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama is seen on a smartphone in ...

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 ...

Apple’s iPhones will soon have to be opened by entering six characters, rather than four. In iOS 9, the next version of the iPhone operating system, phones that have the Touch ID fingerprint sensors ...

We all like to share our technology, but phone borrowers have an annoying habit of looking at things they’re not supposed to: opening dating profiles and private photos, noticing financial or ...

Brute force attack is an attack method that uses a dictionary tool to brute force all combinations of characters even if you do not know the passcode. In the case of the latest electronic devices and ...

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 ...

The default passcode length on the Apple Watch is just four digits. And while it’s true that you don’t keep as much sensitive data on the smartwatch as you do on an iPhone, and that your Apple Watch ...