News from Reincubate

Mechanisms to protect app and cloud data take a number of forms, and Apple’s track record of implementing them has been good. This article examines a number of the techniques that Apple — and the team at Reincubate — have been using.

Aside from some of the broader cloud security elements, there are four key trends and areas of positive change for the iCloud in early 2017.

Here are 25 tips on how to personalise your iPhone settings to improve the overall experience.

A significant security flaw which affected local iPhone backups was detected and resolved by Apple within 2 weeks. The fix was introduced in iOS 10.1 back in October before being reworked in iOS 10.2.

Yesterday began with news of British insurance company Admiral’s move to enhance their insurance pricing using app data collected from the Facebook platform. The principle at stake here isn't whether an insurance company can use this data, but whether it is individuals or Facebook who can control how it is used.

I was interviewed recently by WebCertain TV on the importance of app data, and we talked about scaling up and the genesis of Reincubate.

Important update: as of iOS 10.1 beta 2, Apple has fixed the iTunes encrypted backup security issue by rolling the changes back.

Hanna Aase is a Norwegian entrepreneur, founder and tech for social good advocate who used the iPhone Backup Extractor to save and back up 30,000 messages from her iPhone, including voicemails from her grandmother.

Launched at WWDC 2016 in San Francisco, iOS 10 developer preview comes with a lot of improvements. Read more on our favourites.

We are pleased to write that through our extensive research and preparatory work, we've shipped updates to the API today to fully support the iOS 10 developer release. There are no client-side changes that you will need to make for this.