Beginning with the iPhone 5, encryption became the default. If you have the newest Android phone, it, too, is encrypted by default.

What are encrypted phones? They have a feature you're probably using on your phone without knowing it—and that's a good thing.

Creators who need to expand storage on their iPhone have another option in Transcend's ESD420, a pocket-sized SSD with a ...

Apple's refused to comply with a UK government demand for a backdoor into encrypted iPhone data, leaving users exposed. Other governments may press the issue.

AT&T and Verizon continue to be under attack, so law enforcement advises the use of encrypted apps for messages and calls.

Matthew Green is a privacy guru. If his 7-year-old son can get into his iPhone, the cops can get into yours.

Encryption extends to backups of your iPhone made through Apple's own software too, whether that's on the web in iCloud, or in iTunes or Finder on a connected computer.

At issue is the improved iPhone encryption built into iOS 8. For the first time, all the important data on your phone---photos, messages, contacts, reminders, call history---are encrypted by default.

Apple supports RCS messaging on iPhone in iOS 18 without end-to-end encryption, but a Google leak teases good news might be coming soon.

It’s official: The encryption debate is back on. The Manhattan district attorney, one of the most vocal foes of strong encryption, plans to accuse Facebook, Apple, Google and other tech ...

Do you trust the feds? This is a variation on the theme of freedom versus security [“Defend phone encryption,” Opinion, Feb. 19]. Apple must maintain its encryption code. It is what its ...

When Apple turned on certain forms of encryption as the default setting for the iPhone a year ago, and Google followed suit on Android, the companies were picking a public fight with the government.