You’ve no doubt allowed dozens (or even hundreds) of apps to live on your smartphone, and it’s important that you know what these apps are up to. Part of that is keeping tabs on how much communicating each app is doing with the outside world. We’ve previously written about how to check data usage on
the story unfolds — Don't expect these clamshell-style foldables in 2024 or 2025 or maybe ever. Andrew Cunningham - 2/7/2024, 9:26 PM Samuel Axon Apple is purportedly working on a foldable iPhone internally, according to "a person with direct knowledge of the situation" speaking to The Information. They're said to be clamshell-style devices that fold
Credit: Petter Lagson/Unsplash Modern-day smartphones come with a lot of built-in protection measures for user privacy and data security—we've written about many of them on Lifehacker—but if you want to take the next step up in terms of keeping your information safe and private, then a VPN (or Virtual Private Network) is the best way
Apple on Thursday posted its earnings report for the December 2023 quarter, or the first quarter of fiscal year 2024. Revenues of $119.58 billion beat expectations for the period, although it’s not quite a record, falling short of the $123.9 billion from the December 2022 quarter. Out of that, $33.9 billion represents profit for the
After four consecutive quarters of revenue decline, Apple broke the trend and reported its first period of revenue growth today. In its earnings report for the first quarter of the financial year of 2024, the company announced a quarterly revenue of $119.6 billion, which is an increase of 2 percent from the same period last
Apple won’t unveil the iPhone 16 series until mid-September, so there’s plenty of time to go until we get our hands on the next-gen iPhone model. But there’s no shortage of iPhone 16 rumors, and we already think we know some of the main changes coming to the 2024 iPhones. Like the larger displays for
In the months leading up to Apple’s announcement about iPhone sideloading last week, I told you that I had no plans to download apps from other sources. I don’t want third-party app stores, and I’m happy to pay for the 30% commission that covers Apple’s fees. That buys me peace of mind. It’s not just
Freshsplash/Getty Images Your iPhone can be many things, and can do so much more than help you answer calls, respond to texts, or browse the internet. It can also be your personal camera, document scanner, and — with the recent addition of an iOS 15 feature — a trusty, personal white noise machine. There's a
The often-accurate Mark Gurman penned his usual newsletter over the weekend at Bloomberg, where he dissected Apple’s most recent move that shook the mobile industry. iPhone sideloading and other big iOS changes are happening in Europe come March 7th, and Apple laid out the entire plan for complying with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). That’s
Published Jan 27th, 2024 8:15PM EST Image: José Adorno for BGR The popular weather app Weather Up has just been updated to version 3.0. The new features include interactive Home Screen widgets, which are available on iOS 17. Previously, iPhone users could only open the app when touching a widget. Now, with iOS 17, it’s
