Ben Smith is a writer based in Los Angeles, California who has been covering consumer tech for at least five years. He's written thousands of articles for various sites about laptops, tablets, and ...

Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac Why would you bother to back up your iMessages? After all, they’re all stored in iCloud these days, right? Well, yes your messages are all stored in iCloud, but ...

For the most part, iMessage is a reliable, convenient instant messaging service. It lets you send and receive texts, videos, and pictures, among other media assets, from any Apple device. However, ...

Apple's iMessage system has a cryptography flaw that allowed researchers to decrypt a photo stored in iCloud, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. The researchers, led by cryptography expert ...