The average US smartphone user gets about 46 push notifications a day, according to app analysis firm Business of Apps. OK, let's do some math: There are more than 1.46 billion active iPhone users ...

Numerous iOS apps are using background processes triggered by push notifications to collect user data about devices, potentially allowing the creation of fingerprinting profiles used for tracking.

Both in-app ads and push notifications are being used to identify and spy on iPhone users, according to two separate reports. When Apple changed the rules, to require apps to seek your permission ...

Any time a company sends a push notification to an iPhone, its application can gather information about the user, including their location, according to security researchers. Meta and TikTok ...

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With iOS 18 introducing a slew of new system customizations, the iPhone has become more Android-like than ever. Nevertheless, a prominent flaw continues to hold back numerous green-bubbled users from ...

Some Gmail complaints are perennial: Google won’t let me recover my account password, or a hacker has changed my two-factor authentication options. Now it seems you can add push notifications that ...