As high-tech and advanced as all our modern mobile devices are, there's no way of getting around basic user errors. Luckily, the makers of your mobile devices kept such errors in mind. That is why we ...

Google is announcing new privacy and recovery tools to combat spam across multiple products related to Android, including suspicious link detection in messages, sign-in with phone number, and recovery ...

You can restore lost contacts on an iPhone from a recent backup using the iCloud website. Your existing local contacts on your iPhone will be backed up and replaced with the ones from iCloud. To ...

Google is rolling out a new Recovery Contact feature designed to help you regain access to your Google account if you ever get locked out. Whether you’ve forgotten your password, lost your phone, or ...

Anyone who's ever had their Google account hacked can tell you what a pain it is to recover. You'll spend hours or even days on it, and recovery isn't guaranteed, no matter what you do. On Wednesday, ...

Google’s new “Recovery Contacts” feature allows trusted friends or family members to help you regain access to your account by verifying a code. The feature is rolling out now and is recommended for ...

We tend to never think that the worst is going to happen, until it actually does happen—and that applies to everything in the digital realm too, whether it's losing data or having your accounts ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Now Google has issued a new warning for users who lose their phone ...

You can recover deleted iPhone messages in a few different ways. The easiest way is to use a MacBook if you have one and find the messages in your computer’s folders. Restore through MacBook files USA ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. Have you ever been cleaning out your texts ...

Google has yet to share how the process works for those acting as Recovery Contacts, but it says "these contacts can help verify your identity, providing a simple and secure way to regain access." You ...