As phones become more central to people’s lives, they’re also treasure troves of information that can reveal where people have been, who they’ve been communicating with, and what they’re doing online.

ProofPronto.com has released an "iPhone Recovery Stick" that allows you access to deleted text messages, call logs, contacts, appointments, Internet history, images and other data from your iPhone.

To recover data from an iPhone, unfortunately, you’ll unfortunately have to connect the phone to a USB port on a Windows computer, then plug the iPhone Recovery Stick into a second USB port. Once the ...

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Want a really good reason to make sure your iOS device is all suited and booted for use with Apple’s (now free) Find My (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch) system? Here’s one — a cunning piece of kit which ...