The legal fight pitting the Obama administration against Apple ended unexpectedly after the FBI said it used a mysterious method without Apple's help to hack into a California mass shooter's iPhone.

The United States Justice Department said yesterday it had succeeded in unlocking an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.

The tech company said a fix for its iMessage flaw will be available on Monday.

It is an iPhone 6S in the body of an iPhone 5S.

Source: Apple

Source: Apple

Apple unveiled a small new iPhone, a new iPad tablet for business use and price cuts for its Apple Watch at a product event Monday.

For years, cops who wanted to break into iPhones knew the drill, so what's different this time round?

The fight between Apple and the FBI over a locked iPhone gets even more personal.

"If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts," Jobs said of Robert Palladino's Reed College class.

Tim Cook's experiences growing up as a gay youth in rural Alabama are key to understanding how he became an outspoken corporate leader.

The Constitution does not allow the government to conscript private companies to invent products or to change the products that they have invented," Apple's lawyer said.

Apple heads to Washington to make its case.

The fight between Apple and the US government comes down to a technical enigma wrapped in layers of emotional debate.

Add Bill Gates to the cacophony of voices weighing in on the debate that has erupted between Apple and the FBI over user privacy.

FBI and Apple could surely look at shooter's phone without betraying wider public rights.

It takes a really long time to crack an iPhone.

The company's huge installed userbase is its secret weapon.

We live in an age of rapid technological change and disruption. But can the Big Five tech giants ever be disrupted?

Apple and other multinationals which derive profits from Australia have a duty to pay tax in this country, writes Christopher Niesche.

Google is paying Apple a hefty fee to keep its search bar on the iPhone.

Here are some of the useful iOS tips picked up on over the years.

Apple had some good news to share Wednesday: the tech company "is now responsible for creating and supporting 1.9 million jobs".

Toyota agreed to use a car-phone connectivity system championed by Ford in a front to keep Apple and Google from dominating control of dashboards.

Samsung has agreed to pay smartphone rival Apple just over US$548 million in a years-long patent battle in federal court in California.

Facebook wants to take all your information and route it through a platform it controls: Notify, an app that's purpose is to send you notifications.

Google and Apple have moved a third-party Instagram app from their online stores after reports surfaced the app was stealing usernames and passwords.

In a live address at the Wall Street Journal's WSJD Live event this week, Apple's chief executive made the ears of car company executives prick up.

Apple's voice assistant, Siri, is meant to have an answer for everything, until now.