The average US smartphone user gets about 46 push notifications a day, according to app analysis firm Business of Apps. OK, let's do some math: There are more than 1.46 billion active iPhone users ...

Apple iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4 are gearing up to bring Safari web app push notifications to iPhones and iPads. The Cupertino-based tech giant first mentioned such a feature when it introduced the iOS ...

Numerous iOS apps are using background processes triggered by push notifications to collect user data about devices, potentially allowing the creation of fingerprinting profiles used for tracking.

Any time a company sends a push notification to an iPhone, its application can gather information about the user, including their location, according to security researchers. Meta and TikTok ...

Today, Apple is releasing iOS and iPadOS 16.4, the fourth major updates to the OSes that introduced support for the customizable Lock Screen and Stage Manager last year, respectively. Ever since our ...

Apple today released the iOS 16.4 update to users, which includes a number of new features, like an expanded set of emojis, voice isolation for calls, website push notifications and more. Users can ...

Some Gmail complaints are perennial: Google won’t let me recover my account password, or a hacker has changed my two-factor authentication options. Now it seems you can add push notifications that ...

Apple has released emergency iOS and iPadOS updates to fix a notification logging flaw that allowed the FBI to recover deleted Signal message previews from an iPhone. The vulnerability, CVE-2026-28950 ...

Both in-app ads and push notifications are being used to identify and spy on iPhone users, according to two separate reports. When Apple changed the rules, to require apps to seek your permission ...

I’ll probably be turning them off, but at least they’ll be an option. I’ll probably be turning them off, but at least they’ll be an option. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more.

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