Two separate companies that made a business out of offering AT&T iPhone 4 owners a way to unlock their phones to work on other carriers have closed up shop within days of each other. Josh Lowensohn ...

To unlock your iPhone from its carrier, you'll likely need to contact your carrier directly to cancel your contract.

Major cellular carriers — Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and others — typically lock their networks to the iPhone you buy from their stores or pay for via an installment plan. What does that really ...

Tired of taking off your face mask to unlock your iPhone? Don’t want to enter your password each time you wake up your Mac? You can sneak past these challenges if you own an Apple Watch. Lance is an ...

If you buy an iPhone from a carrier with an active plan, you don’t really own the iPhone. The carrier partially owns the iPhone. This means the iPhone on your hand is locked to the carrier or a locked ...

With 20+ years of experience covering consumer tech and policy, Chloe now leads PCMag's news coverage. Starting Saturday, it will be illegal for you to unlock your phone without permission from your ...

During the pandemic, Face ID received a lot of scrutiny for not functioning correctly, and it simply did not work whenever you were wearing your mask and attempted to unlock your iPhone. Before that ...