Mobile apps are the universal gateway to multi-purpose functionality. With Apple’s iOS apps, permissions allow you to seamlessly tag photos and videos with your location, permit video apps to use your ...

I’m sure I’m not the only person who’s accepted the privacy terms of an app on my phone without fully reading the conditions in their entirety. Sure, it’s bad practice, but everyone in security knows ...

If you’re like me, you have a lot of apps on your phone, and there’s a good chance that there are some you’re not using or maybe not even aware of. So, in addition to being careful before downloading ...

On a new phone, I immediately go to Settings > Security > SIM card lock and activate it. Your carrier usually provides a ...

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When you first launch an application on Facebook, you give it permission to access certain aspects of your profile. You can adjust the application's permissions at any time by adjusting your account's ...

Every time you install an application on Windows, you agree to give it permission to interact with certain parts of your system. Video calling apps are going to want to access your webcam, for example ...

Google is slowly fixing its Play Store problem. We have already seen a cull of lower-quality, higher-risk apps, and we are now seeing ever more on-device monitoring to flag those devices behaving ...

In iOS 16 and the upcoming iPadOS 16.1, Apple added an alert when an app tries to read your device’s clipboard, giving users a chance to grant or deny access. It’s a privacy measure, but for apps that ...

Jason Cipriani is based out of beautiful Colorado and has been covering mobile technology news and reviewing the latest gadgets for the last six years. His work can also be found on sister site CNET ...

Are you having difficulty remembering which apps you have given to certain permissions on your iOS device? Rather than checking them individually, you can reset them all at once and then give access ...