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HOW TO
02/19/2025 5:07 pm

The Ultimate Guide to Freeing Up Storage Space on Your iPhone

Although your iPhone does not offer an option to upgrade internal storage space using a memory card, as some Android phones do, there are plenty of things you can do to clear up storage so you can put everything you want on your device and stop getting those Storage Almost Full alerts. You may not b ...more

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HOW TO
02/14/2025 6:36 pm

How to Intercept Images from a Security Camera Using Wireshark

It's common for IoT devices like Wi-Fi security cameras to host a website for controlling or configuring the camera that uses HTTP instead of the more secure HTTPS. This means anyone with the network password can see traffic to and from the camera, allowing a hacker to intercept security camera foot ...more

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HOW TO
02/14/2025 6:33 pm

How to Easily Detect CVEs with Nmap Scripts

Nmap is possibly the most widely used security scanner of its kind, in part because of its appearances in films such as The Matrix Reloaded and Live Free or Die Hard. Still, most of Nmap's best features are under-appreciated by hackers and pentesters, one of which will improve one's abilities to qui ...more

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HOW TO
02/14/2025 6:29 pm

How to Use the Chrome Browser Secure Shell App to SSH into Remote Devices

Many guides on Null Byte require using the Secure Shell (SSH) to connect to a remote server. Unfortunately for beginners, learning to use SSH can become a confusing mix of third-party programs and native OS support. For Chrome OS users, using SSH is even more difficult. We'll fix this by using the C ...more

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HOW TO
02/14/2025 6:12 pm

An Intro to Vim, the Unix Text Editor Every Hacker Should Be Familiar With

As pentesters and hackers, we're going to be working with text frequently — wordlists, configuration files, etc. A lot of this we'll be doing on our machine, where we have access to whatever editor we prefer. The rest of it will be on remote machines, where the tools for editing will be limited. If ...more

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HOW TO
02/14/2025 6:08 pm

How to Encrypt Your Notes, Photos, and Archives with EncryptPad

For anyone wanting to keep information private, plain text is a format of the past. Instead, cheap, powerful encryption is widely available, but often not easy enough to use to attract widespread adoption. An exception to this rule is EncryptPad, an easy to use application that lets you encrypt text ...more

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02/14/2025 5:52 pm

How to Exploit Recycled Credentials with H8mail to Break into User Accounts

Many online users worry about their accounts being breached by some master hacker, but the more likely scenario is falling victim to a bot written to use leaked passwords in data breaches from companies like LinkedIn, MySpace, and Tumblr. For instance, a tool called H8mail can search through over 1 ...more

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HOW TO
02/07/2025 5:36 pm

Create Your Own Ethical Hacking Kit with a Raspberry Pi 5

If you started your ethical hacking journey with our recommended Raspberry Pi 3 B+ setup, it's time to consider upgrading your beginner's ethical hacking kit to the Raspberry Pi 5 for even better performance and capabilities. After a nearly four-year hiatus, Kody Kinzie returns as the host of Null B ...more

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NEWS
02/04/2025 10:41 pm

Everything We Know About iOS 19 So Far

The first beta version of iOS 19 is still months away, but Apple has been hard at work getting the next-gen iPhone software ready for developer testing. And we already know of a few potential changes and updates you can expect to see. Codenamed "Luck," iOS 19 is being developed alongside macOS 16 (" ...more

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NEWS
01/31/2025 10:58 pm

160+ New Emoji Are Coming, Including Bigfoot, Distorted Face, and Apple Core

The Unicode Consortium is already hard at work on the next batch of emoji, but don't get too excited just yet. It may be a while before you see these new characters, which include an apple core, orca, and hairy creature, on your devices. Unicode 17.0, with its Emoji 17.0 update, isn't expected to be ...more

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HOW TO
01/24/2025 10:38 pm

Freeform's 16+ New Features on iOS 18 You Need to Know About

Apple's Freeform app levels up with iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, offering you new features to enhance creativity, collaboration, and organization. While some updates, like the new Scenes feature, are prominent, others are more subtle but just as powerful. This incredible app's versatile features work equal ...more

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HOW TO
01/23/2025 5:16 am

Create Custom Offline Hiking Routes in Apple Maps

Apple Maps keeps getting better and better for all the hikers in the world. With iOS 18, iPadOS 18, or macOS Sequoia 15, you can access thousands of detailed trail maps within U.S. national parks and topographic views, but you can also create your own walking and hiking routes. Custom walking and hi ...more

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HOW TO
01/16/2025 5:54 pm

Keep Your Night Vision Sharp with the iPhone's Hidden Red Screen

Night Shift, Dark Mode, Reduce White Point, and Zoom's Low Light Filter all help reduce the harmful effects on your body's clock that bright iPhone and iPad screens have at night. But there's another option on iOS and iPadOS that turns your entire display red, and it's useful for so much more than j ...more

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01/16/2025 5:50 pm

VSCO 101: How to Use the Selfie Camera on Your Android Phone

If you love to take selfies and post them online for all the world to see, then it's important to ensure that you are always sharing your best side. It's pretty common for people to just open up their stock camera app and snap a quick photo, wherever they may be — but there's a bet ter camera you co ...more

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HOW TO
01/15/2025 11:44 pm

How to Predict Traffic with Google Maps

Google Maps makes it easy to find the best routes, and one of its most useful tools is the ability to set departure and arrival times directly in the mobile app. While this feature was initially exclusive to the desktop site, it’s now fully integrated into the app for both iPhone and Android. This a ...more

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HOW TO
01/13/2025 6:20 pm

Revolutionize Your Inbox with iOS 18's Latest Mail Features on Your iPhone

In today's digital world, where inboxes are often inundated with endless emails, the latest updates to Mail in iOS 18 are nothing short of game-changing. With iOS 18.0 and subsequent updates, Apple has reimagined email management by introducing a suite of features designed to simplify, organize, and ...more

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HOW TO
01/10/2025 6:15 pm

iOS 17.2 Has 60 New Features and Changes for iPhone You Won't Want to Miss

Apple just released its biggest update to iOS 17 yet, and there are 60 exciting new changes for your iPhone. With iOS 17.2, you get a brand new app, more Apple Music enhancements, upgrades in Messages, and a new security feature that was announced last year, as well as changes for Weather, notificat ...more

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HOW TO
12/23/2024 10:34 pm

Apple Just Made Voice Memos Better with Layered Recording

Apple introduced layered recordings in Voice Memos back in September, and the feature finally arrived with the latest update for the iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max. This exciting addition transforms the app into a versatile tool for musicians and storytellers, making it easier than ever to craft songs ...more

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HOW TO
12/18/2024 6:20 pm

How to Export and Import Safari Borwsing Data

Apple has introduced a valuable new tool for Safari that lets you export or import browsing data such as bookmarks, history, extensions, credit card information, and usernames and passwords. This makes it easy to move your data between Safari and other browsers like Brave or Orion, create a backup a ...more

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HOW TO
12/11/2024 5:50 pm

Use Image Playground to Craft Custom Drawings and Animations

Growing up, I was told that hard work could get me anything I wanted. But with Apple's Image Playground, I can create almost any illustration or drawing imaginable just by typing or selecting a suggestion. This groundbreaking feature in Apple Intelligence lets you generate images from simple prompts ...more

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HOW TO
12/11/2024 5:03 pm

Generate Flawless Artwork Instantly in Apple Notes with Image Wand

Drawing in Apple Notes can be fun, but our sketches may not always turn out as polished as we'd like (cue the "my 5-year-old can draw better than that" jokes). Thankfully, Apple's new Image Wand feature in iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2 aims to make creating professional-quality visuals a breeze, even if ...more

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HOW TO
12/11/2024 4:56 pm

A Beginner’s Guide to Visual Intelligence on iPhone

In a new update, the iPhone 16 lineup is finally getting Visual Intelligence, a feature that lets you instantly gather information about anything around you just by snapping a picture. Integrated into the Camera Control button on iOS 18.2, released December 11, Visual Intelligence gives you access t ...more

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HOW TO
12/11/2024 4:39 pm

Setting Default Apps on Your iPhone or iPad Just Got a Lot Easier

Since 2020, you've been free to set your preferred web browser and email app as the default on your iPhone or iPad. Now, four years later, Apple is expanding this flexibility in the U.S., allowing even more apps to be set as defaults for specific actions. Plus, there's now a centralized menu to mana ...more

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HOW TO
12/03/2024 8:27 pm

Everything You Can Do with Your iPhone 16's Camera Control Button

The devices in the new iPhone 16 series lineup have one feature no other iPhone models have: a physical Camera Control button. If you use your iPhone to take photos or record videos, the Camera Control speeds up the process and gives you immediate control over adjusting settings and values using int ...more

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HOW TO
11/08/2024 11:47 pm

Unlock Apple's Hover Typing to See What You're Writing More Easily

If you can't always see what you're typing very well on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, you no longer have to adjust the font size for the app or entire system just to read your writing more easily. One of Apple's newer Accessibility features gives you a customizable, magnified view in a floating window ...more

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HOW TO
11/01/2024 7:27 pm

Your iPhone's Hidden Back Tap Button Has 6 More Actions Available with iOS 18

There are more actions available for the Action button, but only a handful of iPhone models have that button. However, there is another button with new features you can use, and you can access all the fresh features on any iPhone model that can run iOS 18. The button in question is Back Tap, which i ...more

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HOW TO
10/28/2024 5:54 pm

Record Phone Calls and FaceTime Audio Calls on Your iPhone with iOS 18.1

Recording phone calls has always been tricky due to legal, ethical, and technical considerations. With iOS 18.1, Apple brings your iPhone a native call recording feature that simplifies this process while addressing privacy concerns. There are a few things to know about call recordings on iOS 18.1. ...more

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HOW TO
10/16/2024 10:14 pm

11 Ways Apple's Reminders App Is Even Better with iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15

With iOS 18, you get better note-taking capabilities in the revamped Notes app, advanced features like conversions and results history in the more powerful Calculator, and interactive Math Notes, a feature in both apps that's a game changer for students and professionals dealing with complex equatio ...more

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HOW TO
09/27/2024 8:10 pm

How to Schedule Messages to Send Later Automatically Using iMessage

You could already schedule an email to send on a specific day and time in Apple's Mail app, but that functionality is now also available in the Messages app. What's even better is that scheduled messages sync across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, something you don't get in the Mail app. To schedule tex ...more

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HOW TO
09/24/2024 10:34 pm

How to Attach Almost Any File Type to Notes on Your iPhone or iPad

It's no secret that Apple's Notes app supports attachments such as photos, videos, and web links, as well as other file types like PDFs, word documents, spreadsheets, locations on a map, and audio tracks. While images, videos, and document scans are simple to add on an iPhone or iPad, other file typ ...more

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HOW TO
09/20/2024 6:47 pm

22 Features the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro Models Have That Other iPhones Don't

While many of the features in the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro series build on what we've seen in previous iPhone models, Apple has packed the 2024 lineup with iOS 18 and plenty of fresh upgrades worth considering. The iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max boast several groundbreaking features, like a 6.9-inch displ ...more

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HOW TO
09/19/2024 8:22 pm

12 New Home Screen Features iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 Has for Your iPhone or iPad

There are more than a few exciting new Home Screen customization options available in the iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 software updates, including some we've been waiting years for. Apple never mentioned a few of these new features and changes in the release notes, but you can see them all right here. The i ...more