Change this hidden setting, or anyone can get into your iPhone

Your iPhone has a ton of important privacy features. For example, there is a setting to hide your IP address when you send an email. Advertisers cannot track you this way. Here’s how to turn it on.

What if you share your location or other access with someone and want to stop? There’s an easy way to make your texts, location, and other data private again.

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Your Face ID is vulnerable unless you change this setting

First, Apple’s Face ID uses the TrueDepth camera to capture accurate face data by projecting and analyzing thousands of invisible dots. It maps all your curves and wrinkles and stores that data as a key to unlock your phone.

Face ID automatically adapts to changes in your appearance, like if you wear makeup or grow facial hair. When there’s a more significant change in your appearance, like shaving your beard, Face ID confirms your identity by using your passcode before it updates your face data. Neat, right?

Face ID is designed to work with hats, scarves, glasses, contact lenses, face masks and sunglasses. Apple claims there’s a one-in-a-million chance someone else’s face can unlock your iPhone. OK, that’s good to know.

What about your face?

A common fear is that someone could hold your phone to your face while you’re sleeping to unlock it. The good news is these systems generally don’t work if your eyes are closed.

The bad news? There’s a way to bypass this safeguard built right into your phone. I’ll show you how to prevent this from happening.

Safety warning: I shared a crazy video on my Instagram. An iPhone 4 exploded overnight. Luckily, the family wasn’t hurt. Here’s how to keep dangerous charging mistakes from happening to you. Step 1: Don’t use a 12-year-old phone.

It’s all in the eyes

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This hidden iPhone setting puts you at risk

Your smartphone comes loaded with security settings, but they may not always be so apparent. We’ve compiled some essential ones. Tap or click here for new iPhone and Android security features to turn on.

Among the most common methods to unlock modern smartphones is facial recognition. It’s convenient, but it has drawbacks, not the least of which is training us to be OK with facial scans.

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10 ways you should be using your iPad

One great thing about Apple devices is that the built-in browser blocks cross-site tracking. You don’t have to worry about being followed when you use Safari. Here’s how to enable this critical privacy feature on your iPhone, iPad and Mac.

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iOS 16.4 brings security fixes and new emojis

Keeping your devices updated is essential from a security standpoint, but you sometimes also get some neat features to go along with it. Apple’s iOS 16.4 brings all that and more, bundling important fixes with some nice quality-of-life updates and a bit of fun thrown in.

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10 useful tips and tricks hiding in your phone's accessibility settings

From work to entertainment to education, smartphones are a significant part of our lives. To be capable of doing so much with a device that fits in the palm of your hand is a wonder of modern technology.

Accessibility features have been built into computers, tablets and phones for quite some time. You can enable larger text and dictation in just a few steps. Google is taking things further with an app designed to make it easier for people with speech and motor impairments to use their phones. Tap or click here to check out this fascinating tech that utilizes eye movements.

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7 clever tricks that make your iPhone or iPad easier to use

There are millions of people who use Apple devices but many don’t know just everything they can actually do with them. Sure, we all know how to check email and play Angry Birds but what about making text appear bigger or adding a keyboard?

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