Category: mobile app

  • How to Never Pay Full Price for an iPhone App Again

    How to Never Pay Full Price for an iPhone App Again

    Read full article: at LifeHacker Most of the apps in Apple’s App Store are slowly moving away from asking you to pay upfront, opting to make their money either through ads or in-app purchases. But if you’re someone who prefers to buy an app rather than deal with micro-transactions, keeping track of prices can be…

  • How to Tell Which Apps Can See Your Private iPhone Data

    How to Tell Which Apps Can See Your Private iPhone Data

    Read full article: at LifeHacker Every year, Apple releases new features that both improve data privacy on the iPhone, and set a new benchmark for the industry as a whole. With iOS 15, it’s all about transparency. iOS 15.2 brings a new feature called App Privacy Report that provides a visual, easy-to-read report of all…

  • How to Avoid Paying High Subscription Fees for Apps

    How to Avoid Paying High Subscription Fees for Apps

    Read full article: at LifeHacker Notability created some drama for itself this week when it announced that it would switch all users over to a subscription-based payment system—including those who had already paid for the app. While the app quickly reversed course (likely because they were about to break Apple’s terms of service), it serves…

  • How to Stop Your iPhone and Its Apps From Tracking Your Location

    How to Stop Your iPhone and Its Apps From Tracking Your Location

    Read full article: at LifeHacker While privacy as we used to know it might be dead and gone, there are still plenty of ways to protect yourself against the default tech standards on your iPhone. Apple might be a privacy champion, but there are plenty of settings you can tinker with and change to hide…

  • How to Tell If You're Being Scammed By Fleeceware Apps

    How to Tell If You're Being Scammed By Fleeceware Apps

    Read full article: at LifeHacker Fleeceware is one of the worst scams you can deal with on your device, because it has one, singular goal: extracting as much money from you as possible. It generally accomplishes this not by dropping malware on your device or otherwise forcing you to do something; instead, fleeceware hides in…