Touch the "Settings" icon on the iPhone home screen to open the app. Select "General." Choose "Passcode Lock" to view all the passcode settings for your iPhone. If you already have a passcode enabled, ...

Locking your iPhone — which turns off the display and makes a passcode required to turn it back on again – is an easy way to protect your data and personal ...

My 8 year old relative got hold of my iPhone and tried a few passcodes before she got locked out. She tried just three or four times, then got a black screen with the Apple logo and a progress bar. I ...

Like any cellphone, your iPhone contains personal, sensitive data that you may not want unauthorized users to see. Locking this sensitive data, such as your text messages, is achieved by adding a ...

How can a person secure their iPhone 5s with either a four-digit or more complex alpha-numeric passcode? A new iPhone 5s or one updated to a new version of iOS 7 or higher asks users to make a ...

You can’t really go too far when it comes to phone security, considering everything of importance we put on these compact devices—from bank account apps to our most intimate conversations—and while ...

Update: An earlier version of this article mistakenly presented this bug as a passcode lock screen bypass. As any attacker requires access to an unlocked iOS device in the first place in order to ...

iOS 6.1.3 has only just been released by Apple, and already a security hole has been followed – allowing anyone to bypass the passcode lock on iPhones, and access private data on the device.

Google—or, more specifically, Chrome—has had a makeshift password manager for a while now. You’ve probably seen it before: any time you enter a password into a ...