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How to Stop Being Added to WhatsApp Groups on iPhone & iPad
Go to OSX Daily to read How to Stop Being Added to WhatsApp Groups on iPhone & iPad With 1.6 billion users who’re active on a monthly basis, WhatsApp is hands down the most popular instant messaging service that exists today. Sure, it’s not as ubiquitous in the US market as Apple’s iMessage, but it’s…
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How to Prevent Apple Employees From Listening to Your Siri Commands
Apple has started rolling out new options for managing Siri data—most importantly the ability to opt-out of having Siri audio clips reviewed by Apple employees. Users will also be able to submit Siri data deletion requests in the near future as well. These new features have been appearing in the latest round of OS… Read…
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How to Block Unwanted Emails, Phone Calls, and Messages in iOS 13
Is your iPhone getting blown up with spammy messages? Then you should probably update to iOS 13 if you haven’t already. iOS 13 includes a couple of new tools for blocking junk emails and robocalls, and carries over the iMessage blocking options from iOS 12. These make it easy to filter out unwanted messages at…
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How to Fix iOS 13's Location Privacy Bug
Welp, there seems to be another reason to hold off on updating to iOS 13: Users have discovered that the “Location” privacy setting—which requests access to your device’s geographical location data—is being automatically reset from “Never” to “Ask Next Time” in certain apps. Read more… Read full article: at LifeHacker
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How to Spot iOS Apps That Are Scams
We tend to call out shady apps found on the Google Play Store pretty regularly, but there are also some iOS apps looking to pull one over on unsuspecting Apple customers. In this case, these apps are trying to scam users into costly—and in some cases, undisclosed—in-app transactions. One such app is a notorious iOS…
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How To Prevent and Respond to a SIM Swap Scam
SIM swap attacks are “off the hook right now,” as described in a November 2018 article from security maven Brian Krebs. While most of you probably have never, and won’t ever, encounter one, it’s good to be prepared should this irritating hack happen to you. What is SIM swapping? SIM swapping involves a hacker duping…