Welcome to Product Support, a column devoted to helping you get the most out of the gadgets and software you already use. If you have any of Apple’s main devices — iPhone, iPad or Mac — that means you ...

Taking a moment to add an extra passcode to your iCloud account might save your skin if your iPhone is ever stolen by a shady character who’s eyeing you like a hawk. By default, your iPhone passcode ...

iCloud Keychain has always been a bit of an island: A hidden, secure nirvana, so long as you stayed within Apple’s strict ecosystem. To access and add passwords, you had to use Safari, and there was ...

Apple's Advanced Data Protection security features have been available for over two years now. It adds end-to-end encryption to various Apple apps on iCloud backup. With the UK government trying to ...

There’s much more to iCloud Keychain than meets the eye. Apple’s password-management system suggests strong passwords, autofills them whenever you need to sign in later, and syncs across all your ...

Word of another big leak of customer data makes this a good time for enterprise pros to audit their passwords by any means necessary. Reports of a massive 100 million account data leak at T-Mobile ...

Turn on Find My from Apple Account settings, and enable Location Services from Privacy & Security This article explains how to set up Find My (or its predecessor Find ...

Apple built the iCloud Keychain to be invisible during everyday use. If you're on a website or within an app that uses an adequately coded password field, a prompt will appear in the place of your ...

The importance of using strong, unique passwords for each account is emphasised. If your iCloud password is weak, it's time to upgrade it to something stronger with a mix of uppercase, lowercase, ...

A breach exposing 184 million passwords includes Apple login credentials used across iPhone and Mac computers. On May 22, 2025, cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler reported the discovery of a ...

Apple launched a big security enhancement with iOS 16.2 that brings the long-requested feature of full encryption for iMessage in iCloud, iPhone backups, and eight other apps/categories. As part of ...

With the release of iOS 18, Apple introduced its new Passwords app, making it easier to manage your login credentials in one place. Once you’ve updated your iPhone, you can go a step further and ...