Following up on my post of last week about Apple and user privacy, I missed the point about iCloud backups. While your device is encrypted, your iCloud backup is not. At least, there is no end-to-end encryption, which means Apple can access the data.…

One of my personal goals this year is to get back into the habit of sharing some jazz nuggets around here on Fridays. My pick this time is a recent album by the YAYenning Quartet called Scott Ave. This album gives a contemporary twist…

Katrina Onstad for the Guardian thinks maybe you shouldn’t have any.

I’ve done several posts here the last few weeks about the decade transition and Apple. I thought I had nothing further to share on that front and then Jason Snell posted an article putting the past decade of Apple performance in charts. This is…

The more you use Shortcuts, the more you the lack of shortcut organization smacks you in the face. Adam Tow, of Tow.com, has been an active Shortcuts user and community contributor for some time. He decided to take this problem on and has done…

Apple has landed in the soup again with the U.S. Justice Department over its inability (or refusal?) to give access to the Pensacola shooter’s phone. This is a similar issue to that faced with the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone a few years ago. Apple…