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 ...

Your iPhone identity can be protected with two important passwords: one for your Apple ID account, and another password or passcode to unlock your phone. You can ...

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 ...

Once upon a time, our cell phones would work for anyone, no matter who flipped them open and tried to use them. However, as time went on, the standard changed. Passcodes can protect your iPhone from ...

Apple's iPhones have long been protected by numeric passcodes, giving iOS users a way to protect keep their devices safe from hackers and prying eyes. Over the years, passcodes have been supplemented ...

Even though iOS 17 was announced over a week ago, we’re still discovering some smaller yet useful new features and changes. One such change included in iOS 17 is more flexibility to help protect ...

Since there are 204 characters available on the iPhone keyboard, even just a simple four-digit alphanumeric passcode would result in over 1.7 billion possible combinations. Creating a Better Passcode ...

Your face makes for a very good security check, but your passcode remains a weak spot. Here's how to change it to keep your iPhone data safe by changing your lock screen passcode. People tend to make ...

One of the optional security measures you can take to protect your iPhone is to use your phone's Settings screen to set up a four-digit passcode. When you do that, whenever you want to unlock your ...

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 ...