Music-recognizing app Shazam retains access to the Mac's microphone, keeping it in a constant on state, even when Shazam has been turned off. The potentially worrisome feature was discovered by ...

With its latest app, millennial-focused publisher Mic said it’s hoping to give you a full newsreading experience from your iPhone lockscreen. So after you’ve set things up, you’ll start getting ...

This morning, Millennial-focused news organization Mic released its first mobile app. Named "MicCheck," the app shows users a curated stream of stories, from both Mic and other news sites. In some ...

Back in December we saw Apple approved an app called Quick Snap that allowed users to take pictures with the iPhone using the volume buttons instead of the regular camera icon on screen. As you know, ...

If you’ve ever found yourself wondering why an app is requesting microphone access when there doesn’t seem to be any logical reason why it should need to snoop on the sounds from your surroundings, ...

That's not the only dodgy snooping attempt it'll reveal either WORRIED that an app is secretly listening to you through your microphone? Chances are that you’re probably not being spied on – but there ...

There's a special scanner that you can set up so you iPhone will show you a list of every time any app tunes into your microphone. Of course your iPhone will show an orange dot at the top of the ...