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Photo : Rawpixel.com ( Shutterstock ) If you’re shocked to learn the internet isn’t a great place when it comes to your privacy , welcome to your first day online. Companies track everything you do when browsing the web, sometimes down to your individual keypresses and mouse clicks, and gobble up as much of your personal information as they can get their hands on. When you shop this Cyber Monday, and throughout the entire 2022 holiday season for that matter, know you aren’t just handing over your hard-earned dollars to retailers, you’re also giving out your data. The problem with shopping online is there are so many points at which you can lose you data . There are the stores themselves, which collect as much as they can while you browse their sites. On top of that, there are third-party trackers that follow you around from site to site, building a profile of your browsing habits. Then there are third-party services like Honey that help improve the shopping experience or...

Photo : nikkimeel ( Shutterstock ) Apple prides itself on being a privacy-first company, and when it comes to devices like iPhone and Mac, that’s true. But Apple’s iCloud backups were tangled in a mess of different encryption standards. Some things on iCloud, like your health data and passwords, are end-to-end encrypted. But a lot of stuff, like your notes, your photos, and your iMessages (when backing up to iCloud), aren’t. Apple now is starting to right this wrong, introducing a way to manually enable end-to-end encryption on many new data types. What is Advanced Data Protection, and how does it work? These changes come in the form of a new umbrella feature called Advanced Data Protection. Before Advanced Data Protection, only certain data types were encrypted end-to-end. Others were encrypted in transit to iCloud and when living on the iCloud server, but Apple always had the encryption key on hand should you need it. That’s c onvenient if you lose your password and need Apple t...

Screenshot : Jake Peterson As a company, Apple prides itself on operating users’ privacy in mind. But for some time now, its security solutions surrounding iCloud have been milquetoast. While some data you back up to iCloud was end-to-end encrypted, like Health data, Apple held the decryption keys to other data, like iMessages, photos, and notes. The benefit there was Apple could help you retrieve much of your important data if you lost your Apple ID login, but Apple having the theoretical power to read our messages didn’t sit well with many people. Advanced Data Protection for iCloud fixes the issue (for the most part). With it, the number of data types end-to-end encrypted in iCloud backups jumps to 23. Mail, Contacts, and Calendar are the big three that aren’t E2EE, but at least now, Apple doesn’t have the keys to the rest of your data. You can learn more about Advanced Data Protection for iCloud from our post here . https://www.tausiinsider.com/11-of-the-best-new-ios-16-...

Finally . Anyone running iOS 16 (or macOS Ventura, for that matter) can edit or undo iMessages they send in error . When you send an iMessage, you have 15 minutes to edit it, after which time the message will lock itself in. Be warned, though: Any edits you make will be visible in an edit history available under a convenient “Edited” tag, so this feature is best for making small corrections you’d usually fix with a follow-up message. If you’d rather cover up a message entirely, delete it instead. You have two minutes after sending a message to remove it from your device and the devices of others in the chat. Of course, they have the same power, too. https://www.tausiinsider.com/45-of-tausiinsiders-favorite-iphone-hacks-of-2022/?feed_id=327058&_unique_id=6410f00c74c23

Photo : Kicking Studio ( Shutterstock ) Just as you’d service your car to keep it running smoothly, an annual review of your iPhone can prevent a lot of issues in the long run. Phones accumulate a ton of digital cruft, and since a more organized device works better for longer, take the start of a new year as your opportunity to clear it all out. Your iPhone may feel brand new again by the time you’re done. Delete the apps you don’t use anymore We all download a host of apps that are almost never used. If you have a bunch, consider uninstalling them to save space and bandwidth. Unused apps can make your phone slow sometimes, and they keep downloading updates automatically, which can eat into your internet plan’s limited bandwidth. You can go to Settings > General > iPhone Storage and select Enable next to Offload Unused Apps . This will free up a lot of space. Next, you can scroll down on the storage settings page, swipe towards the left on apps that you don’t use, and sele...

Photo : oasisamuel ( Shutterstock ) I recently picked up a new iPhone, and for the most part, I love it. What I didn’t love was not having my iMessages on my new iPhone synced up with my other Apple devices. Sure, my new phone had my most recent messages, but from there, things got weird. For example, most of the messages I saw when I first opened many of my chats were from 2017 , which isn’t ideal. Luckily, I have managed to fix  this problem, and so can you. iMessages sometimes fall out of sync across your Apple devices For some reason when you set up a new iPhone or Apple device and try to sync it with Messages stored in iCloud, your new device might not download all of the available messages. You’ll see messages you sent that day, but then run into messages from years ago, with nothing in between. It’s possible your phone is still be downloading your iMessage library, which, depending on how large it is, might take a long time. However, if you don’t see any indication that yo...

Photo : Daria Gromova ( Shutterstock ) When you want to back up your iMessage chats, iCloud is a severely limited option. It’s good for syncing your chats across devices, and to avoid sudden data loss, but that’s about it. Anyone who has ever tried to find a particular message from years back, especially if that message contains a photo or video, knows there’s a lot of room for improvement. While we wait for Apple to improve iCloud for Messages on its own, check out these better alternatives for exporting and managing your iMessages. Use a third-party app to export iMessage data There are plenty of apps that allow you to export iMessages easily to a Mac or a PC. Some that jump out to us are iMazing or Keepster . With both of these apps, you’ll have to connect your iPhone to your Mac or PC and back up the texts to your computer. While iMazing is more focused on letting you save or print texts, Keepster lets you convert your messages into a book, but both are good, easy apps for ba...

Photo : Hadrian ( Shutterstock ) While your iPhone does a lot , it’s first and foremost a phone . If it can’t connect to your cellular network, it won’t be much better than an iPod touch. In the past, moving your phone number from one iPhone to another was relatively simple: You pop the SIM card out of your old iPhone, and pop it back into the new one. However, these days, Apple has moved to eSIM. The iPhone 14 lineup doesn’t have an option for a physical SIM card, so your only option is this embedded SIM. In theory, there’s nothing wrong with that. However, it could go very wrong. When I tried setting up my new iPhone, I went through Apple’s steps to transfer the eSIM from my old iPhone to my new one. No matter what I did, it just kept failing. With a physical SIM, I could move from phone to phone, iPhone or Android, with ease. With eSIM, I was stuck looking at a $1,000+ paperweight. You can do what I did: Restart both iPhones, reset your network setting. But the best solution he...

Photo : Formatoriginal ( Shutterstock ) If you have an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, your Apple ID is among your most important digital accounts. If it is compromised, bad actors can access your iCloud information, see your location, or outright steal your devices from you. Keeping your Apple ID safe is obviously paramount. While code-based two-factor authentication (2FA) has been Apple’s go-to way to protect your account for years , with the latest update to iOS 16.3 , you can now use physical security keys to lock up your Apple ID from would-be intruders. It’s the best way to protect your account. What are security keys? Security keys have been around since long before Apple decided to implement them into Apple ID. In short, they’re a small piece of hardware resembling a USB thumb drive that can be used to authenticate yourself when signing into an account or device . Once set up, you can use a security key as an alternative form of two-factor authentication (2FA). Rather than rely on ...

Screenshot : Jake Peterson As a company, Apple prides itself on operating users’ privacy in mind. But for some time now, its security solutions surrounding iCloud have been milquetoast. While some data you back up to iCloud was end-to-end encrypted, like Health data, Apple held the decryption keys to other data, like iMessages, photos, and notes. The benefit there was Apple could help you retrieve much of your important data if you lost your Apple ID login, but Apple having the theoretical power to read our messages didn’t sit well with many people. Advanced Data Protection for iCloud fixes the issue (for the most part). With it, the number of data types end-to-end encrypted in iCloud backups jumps to 23. Mail, Contacts, and Calendar are the big three that aren’t E2EE, but at least now, Apple doesn’t have the keys to the rest of your data. You can learn more about Advanced Data Protection for iCloud from our post here . https://news.winestle.com/11-of-the-best-new-ios-16-2-f...