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 ...

The tech company lost a massive privacy case involving the Flo app that has raised huge questions about how health apps are secretly being used. For more than 10 years Tyler has used his experience in ...

The Tea app, made for women to anonymously share information about men in their areas with other women, has been hit with 10 potential class action lawsuits in federal and state courts after a data ...

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 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 ...