Category: privacy

  • How to Protect Private Photos with Passcode, Face ID, or Touch ID on iPhone & iPad

    How to Protect Private Photos with Passcode, Face ID, or Touch ID on iPhone & iPad

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Protect Private Photos with Passcode, Face ID, or Touch ID on iPhone & iPad The “Hidden” photos album on iPhone and iPad offers a place to put photos on your device that you don’t want hanging around in your general Photos camera roll. But since the Hidden…

  • How to Hide Venmo Transaction History

    How to Hide Venmo Transaction History

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Hide Venmo Transaction History Venmo is a very popular mobile payments app that is used for everything from paying for goods, services, rent, bills, splitting checks, and so much more. By default, Venmo chooses to publicly display all of your Venmo transaction payment history, including both sent…

  • How to Allow Apps to be Downloaded & Opened from Anywhere on MacOS Ventura

    How to Allow Apps to be Downloaded & Opened from Anywhere on MacOS Ventura

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Allow Apps to be Downloaded & Opened from Anywhere on MacOS Ventura Wondering how you can allow apps to be downloaded and opened from anywhere on MacOS Ventura? You may have noticed the ability to select “Allow applications downloaded from anywhere” has been removed by default in…

  • How to See All Significant Locations on iPhone

    How to See All Significant Locations on iPhone

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to See All Significant Locations on iPhone Your iPhone keeps track of ‘Significant Locations’, which are typically places that you frequent often, like your home, a partners house, office, school, favorite restaurant, frequented hotels, and similar other places. If you’re interested, you can view all the Significant Locations…

  • How to Set Messages to Automatically Delete on iPhone or iPad

    How to Set Messages to Automatically Delete on iPhone or iPad

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Set Messages to Automatically Delete on iPhone or iPad Do you want all of your Messages to automatically delete themselves after a specified time period from your iPhone or iPad? You can configure a Messages History setting that will allow for the automatic removal of message conversations…

  • How to Hard Lock an iPhone to Prevent Unauthorized Biometric Access

    How to Hard Lock an iPhone to Prevent Unauthorized Biometric Access

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Hard Lock an iPhone to Prevent Unauthorized Biometric Access If you’re ever in a situation where you are concerned about unauthorized biometric access to your iPhone, for example, someone holding your iPhone up to your face to unlock it with Face ID, or someone forcing you to…

  • How to Enable Disappearing Messages in Facebook Messenger

    How to Enable Disappearing Messages in Facebook Messenger

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Enable Disappearing Messages in Facebook Messenger Facebook Messenger now has a disappearing messages feature, which, just as it sounds, allows your messages to disappear after a period of time. The disappearing messages feature in Facebook Messenger is similar to the feature in WhatsApp in that you can…

  • How to Enable Encryption in Facebook Messenger

    How to Enable Encryption in Facebook Messenger

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Enable Encryption in Facebook Messenger By default, communications through Facebook Messenger are not end-to-end encrypted, which means that theoretically another party could retrieve sensitive information from the chat if they were nefariously minded. It also means that the conversations are basically wide open for reading by Facebook…

  • Get the Privacy You Expect in Firefox Focus by Disabling These Features

    Get the Privacy You Expect in Firefox Focus by Disabling These Features

    Go to OSX Daily to read Get the Privacy You Expect in Firefox Focus by Disabling These Features Firefox Focus is a great web browser for iPhone and iPad that basically defaults to being in private browsing mode, meaning there are no cookies, browsing history, or other browser data kept or maintained. But despite being…

  • How to Remove a Person from the Sharing Menu on iPhone

    How to Remove a Person from the Sharing Menu on iPhone

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Remove a Person from the Sharing Menu on iPhone When you go to share a photo, link, or anything else on iPhone, you’ll notice that the iPhone will have a list of suggested contacts to share things with. Often these sharing suggestions are helpful and people you…