If your iPhone isn't responding, and you're not able to power it off and then on again, you can force restart it to hopefully fix the issue.  Forcing a restart is different from a normal restart.

A bustling underground ecosystem is providing criminals with the tools to unlock iPhones—and wage phishing attacks against their contacts to access bank accounts and more.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...

OpenAI’s Advanced Account Security lets ChatGPT and Codex users replace passwords with passkeys or security keys, but recovery is limited. OpenAI has introduced a new security feature that allows ...

If you are searching for how to factory reset iPhone without password, it usually means your device is locked or you forgot your passcode. In 2026, Apple still does not allow unlocking an iPhone ...

Apple's iPhone models are great smartphones if you want to prioritize battery life. With every generation of new iPhone and iOS, the tech giant adds new features to improve the battery life of its ...

You can be confident that Lockdown Mode will keep your iPhone safe from spyware. AI image: ChatGPT/Cult of Mac There’s a setting called Lockdown Mode you can activate on your iPhone that will make it ...

An iPhone that’s tied to an Apple ID you can’t access puts you in a difficult spot, especially when a factory reset requires that password. This often happens ...

An iPhone showing “Locked to Owner” usually means the device is protected by iCloud Activation Lock, a security feature that links it to the original Apple ID. While this protection is designed to ...

A little known security feature on iPhones is in the spotlight after it stymied efforts by U.S. federal authorities to search devices seized from a reporter. Apple’s Lockdown Mode recently prevented ...

To block that, Apple introduced Stolen Device Protection, which leans more heavily on biometric authentication and adds an hour-long delay to certain actions, optionally only when you’re not in one of ...