iOS

5 optional iPhone features Apple provides to strengthen your privacy and security

Lockdown Mode on iPhone

From making two-factor authentication mandatory for all personal Apple Accounts to letting you control which apps can access your personal data, Apple does a good job of maintaining your privacy and security.

Aside from things turned on by default or being pretty popular with many iPhone users, there are a few that are not enabled out of the box, but you can turn on and use them to maximize your safety. We’ll talk about 5 such optional features here.

Apple unsigns iOS 18.6, preventing downgrades from iOS 18.6.1 or 18.6.2

iOS 18 downgrade.

Apple stopped signing iOS 18.6 on Thursday, just one week after releasing iOS 18.6.1 alongside watchOS 11.6.1 to enable the Blood Oxygen monitoring feature on Apple Watches that were previously barred from offering the feature to end users under an International Trade Commission ruling – but later circumvented by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection ruling that patent troll Masimo is now once again suing over.