According to Gizmodo's report earlier this week, several iPhone users are complaining about the ads appearing in their push notifications. From some screenshots on Twitter, the advertisements feature ...

Apps running on iPhones have been found to gather personal data through push notifications, and this revelation comes from the findings of security researcher Tommy Misk. Notably, popular services ...

As noted by Michelle Grant (via TechCrunch), the Uber app is now sending users unrelated advertisements via push notifications. In one of the examples shown by Grant, Uber sent a notification to ...

Numerous iOS apps are using background processes triggered by push notifications to collect user data about devices, potentially allowing the creation of fingerprinting profiles used for tracking.

Push notification technology, first introduced by Apple in June 2009 alongside its iOS 3.0 iPhone operating system, have steadily become more important to company marketing strategies. Push ...

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Security researcher Tommy Mysk has demonstrated that iPhone push notifications are being used by popular apps to covertly send data about the user, according to MacRumors. In a new video, he explains ...

Apple iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4 are gearing up to bring Safari web app push notifications to iPhones and iPads. The Cupertino-based tech giant first mentioned such a feature when it introduced the iOS ...

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Foreign governments likely spy on your smart phone usage, and now Senator Ron Wyden's office is pushing for Apple and Google to reveal how exactly it works. Push notifications, the dings you get from ...

Apple released the first beta of iOS 16.4 and included a feature that lets developers send notifications to web apps. Since the iPhone's creation, users could always add web apps to their devices by ...

Governments have been accused of using Apple and Google push notifications to spy on users. In a letter to the Department of Justice, senator Ron Wyden warned unidentified governments are surveilling ...