Why Your Photos Move to a New Phone on Their Own

Most people picture a phone switch as carrying photos across, folder by folder. That is not how it works any more. Set up properly, your photos are not really on your phone at all. They live in your account. They โ€ฆ

Make Yourself One Tap Away on Their Phone

Ask a parent to call you and watch what actually happens. Open Contacts, search, scroll, tap call. That is four steps. For someone who finds phones fiddly, it is four too many. By the third one they have usually given โ€ฆ

That Friendly Find Friends Button Is Not About Friends

You install a new app and the very first screen is warm and helpful. "Find Friends" it says, with a big button underneath: Allow Contacts. It feels like a small favour to yourself, so you tap it. What did I โ€ฆ

Your Address Book Belongs to Other People Too

We think of privacy as a personal choice. My phone, my data, my decision. Then we tap "allow access to contacts". And quietly make that decision for everybody else in it. Whose data is in my address book? Not yours. โ€ฆ

Meta Has a File on You Even If You Never Signed Up

You deleted Facebook years ago. You never touched Instagram either. So Meta has nothing on you, right? Sadly, that is not how it works. How can they have my details if I never signed up? The moment a friend lets โ€ฆ