The iOS operating system utilizes many security features in both hardware and software. These include a secure boot chain, biometric authentication (Face...

iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple for its iPhone line of smartphones. It was unveiled in January 2007...

iOS 26 is the nineteenth and the next major release of Apple's iOS operating system for the iPhone. It was announced on June 9, 2025, at Apple's Worldwide...

supported iOS devices. It is the direct successor to iOS 17 and was announced alongside iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, watchOS 11, visionOS 2, and tvOS 18. iOS 18...

watchOS 10, iPadOS 17, tvOS 17 and macOS Sonoma. It was made publicly available on September 18, 2023, as a free software update for supported iOS devices...

iOS 14 is the fourteenth major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple for the iPhone and iPod touch lines. Announced at the company's...

for the iPhone and iPod Touch by iOS 13 on September 19, 2019, and for the iPad by iPadOS 13 on September 24, 2019. Security updates for iOS 12 continued...

GrapheneOS is an open-source, privacy- and security-focused Android operating system that runs on selected Google Pixel devices, including smartphones...

Apple's iOS, macOS, iPadOS and visionOS operating systems that operates over a wireless ad hoc network. AirDrop was introduced in Mac OS X Lion (10.7) and iOS...

successor to iPadOS 17 and was announced alongside iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, visionOS 2, watchOS 11, and tvOS 18. iPadOS 18 is the first version of iPadOS to include...

Ventura includes changes, many related to productivity, and adds two apps from iOS and iPadOS: Weather and Clock. Freeform was added in an update to all three...

Differential privacy (DP) is a mathematically rigorous framework for releasing statistical information about datasets while protecting the privacy of individual...

provides a detailed chronological account of the historical reception and criticism of security and privacy features in the WhatsApp messaging service...

on June 6, 2018. Retrieved June 6, 2018. "Apple puts privacy and security foremost in iOS 12, macOS Mojave". MacWorld. Archived from the original on June...

reported to bypass firewalls, raising privacy and security concerns. This was addressed with the release of macOS Big Sur 11.2, which removed the whitelist...

iOS 15 is the fifteenth major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple for its iPhone and iPod Touch lines of products. It was announced...

iOS 16 is the sixteenth major release of Apple's iOS mobile operating system for the iPhone. It is the successor of iOS 15, and was announced at the company's...

marketplace developed and maintained by Apple, for mobile apps on its iOS and iPadOS operating systems. The store allows users to browse and download approved...

China–India skirmishes started, the browser became the subject of privacy and security controversies and was banned in India on 29 June 2020. UC Browser is a cross-platform...

collect and use unconsented data which powers their caller ID database. In a lawsuit in Nigeria, Truecaller defended their security and privacy policy...

are a number of concerns about the risks in the growth of IoT technologies and products, especially in the areas of privacy and security, and consequently...

iOS 13 is the thirteenth major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple for the iPhone, iPod Touch and HomePod. The successor to...

software components from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. Versions were later released for Linux, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and also for Android, where it is the...

contact keys, and new developer features. Other improvements included a redesigned authentication panel, improved privacy and security settings, a new...

increased concern from analysts surrounding the privacy and security of cloud computing services such as iCloud—with a particular emphasis on their use to...

modified version of netpgp (used only in iOS), and (as of p≡p v2.0) GNUnet. pretty Easy privacy was first released in 2016. It is a free and open-source software...

as a privacy-focused web browser and includes features such as built-in advertisement blocking, protections against browser fingerprinting and a private...

combination of on-device and server processing, it was announced on June 10, 2024, at WWDC 2024, as a built-in feature of Apple's iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia...

Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, Android TV, and tvOS. Manual setup is available for wireless routers, NAS devices, and other platforms. NordVPN...

desktop applications for Windows and macOS, and mobile applications for Android and iOS. The software is open source and security is independently audited. Proton...