For the past few years, “Privacy” has probably got more attention in iOS than anything else. While features like the ability to disable apps tracking, get the detailed App Privacy Report, the option to manage the local network, and even prevent apps from having access to the precise location are turning out to be a nightmare for the ad industry, they have won quite a lot of privacy-conscious people. If you are someone who gives high priority to the privacy of your personal information, you would like to manage privacy per-app basis on your iPhone and iPad. If my guesswork is spot on, let me help you customize privacy settings to your heart’s liking.
Manage Privacy Settings Per-App Basis on Your iPhone and iPad
Both iOS and iPadOS offer a pretty straightforward way to tweak each privacy setting. Hence, it’s not a big deal to allow/disallow specific apps from having access to your personal information such as your location, contacts, photos, camera, microphone, and more.
Thanks to the newly introduced App Privacy Report, you can even find out how often an app has accessed your personal info. In a nutshell, nabbing the creepy apps, which say something on the face and do completely opposite on the back has become a painless exercise. That said, it’s time to get started with the quick steps.
1. Launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad.
2. Now, select Privacy.
3. Next, you should see a long list of privacy settings for:
- Location Services: Manage apps’ access to your location data.
- Tracking: Allow/disallow apps to track you across other companies’ apps and websites.
- Contacts: Manage apps’ access to your contacts.
- Reminders: Manage apps’ access to your reminders.
- Photos: Manage apps’ access to your photos.
- Local Network: It lets you manage apps that have requested permission to find and communicate with devices that are on your local network.
- Bluetooth: It allows you to manage apps that have requested to use Bluetooth on your iPhone or iPad.
- Microphone: This setting lets you manage apps’ access to microphone.
- Speech Recognition: The apps that have received the permission to access speech recognition will appear in this section.
- Camera: Apps that have got the access to your device camera will show up in this section.
- Health: The apps that you have allowed to update your Health data will appear in this section.
- HomeKit: This section lets you manage apps that have requested access to your home data.
- Media & Apple Music: Applications, which you have allowed to access Apple Music, your media library, and music/video activity will appear here.
- Files and Folders: It allows you to manage apps that have requested access to files and folders on your iOS/iPadOS device.
- Motion & Fitness: The apps that have requested access to motion and fitness activity on your iOS device will appear here.
- Focus: Here you will find the apps that have requested to see and share your Focus status.
Now, all you have to do to manage the per-app privacy setting is to dive into the particular category and then turn off/on the toggle next to a specific app depending on your needs. Yeah, it’s that straightforward.
Manage Per-App Privacy Settings on iOS and iPadOS with Ease
That’s all there is to it! In an era where jaw-dropping hacking like the one that stunned the iPhone 13 Pro with iOS 15 has become the order of the day, enhanced security and privacy have become the need of the hour. So, it’s good to see Apple pushing the boundary and also kind of forcing the other tech titans to follow along. That said, do you have any questions or feedback? If yes, we would be glad to hear from you.
Abubakar Mohammed
