Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off.

Apple on Thursday introduced a new set of App Review Guidelines for developers, which now specifically state that apps must disclose and obtain users’ permission before sharing personal data with ...

Update, October 3: Bitrig is offering unlimited prompts for Pro users for a limited time. Details below. A group of ex-Apple employees who co-created SwiftUI has launched a vibe coding iPhone app that ...

A new app offering to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell the data to AI companies is, unbelievably, the No. 2 app in Apple’s U.S. App Store’s Social Networking section.

Apple’s new gaming app, Apple Games, is now available on Mac and iOS 26 compatible devices. The dedicated hub brings some long-requested features to Apple Arcade users and allows Mac users to launch ...

A federal jury found on Friday that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, the state’s wiretap law, by collecting data from a period-tracker app ...

A data breach of the Tea app recently exposed users' selfies, IDs, and private messages. The breach shows the risk of giving out your sensitive information to new apps. Cybersecurity experts say ...

A week after Tea, a women’s dating safety app, soared to No. 1 on the app store with more than 2.5 million requests to join, the app experienced a data breach. The result? More than 70,000 of ...

The recent data hack targeting an app for sharing information about nefarious men is a reminder that the impulse to protect frequently comes at a cost. By Gina Cherelus In the Third Wheel column, Gina ...

Tea, a popular dating app that allows women to review and conduct background checks on men, experienced a massive data breach that exposed sensitive information about its users. The app announced on ...