iOS 14 truly brings Privacy on your iPhone and iPad to another level. You can now control if the apps installed on your Apple smartphone are allowed to find and connect to devices on your local network. A pop up is displayed the first time you open an app that performs such actions. You’re asked…
iOS 14 brings important improvements to your iPhone’s privacy options. One of them keeps your photos and videos private unless you’re willing to share them. You have the option to allow apps only partial access to your Photos library, instead of sharing the entire CameraRoll. Whenever an app asks for permission to access the Photos…
iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 are focused on enhancing user privacy more than ever. One of the many privacy oriented enhancements is the option to allow apps only approximate location access. In most cases, this should be more than enough. For example, apps that are restricted to countries or regions, should do just fine with…
Recently we’ve covered the new status bar indicators added in iOS 14. They’re informing iPhone users when an app is actively using the device’s microphone or camera. Now we caught TikTok using the iPhone microphone while the app was lingering in the background. This unexplained microphone access is worrisome especially with all the TikTok spyware…
iOS 14 focuses a lot on privacy as Apple is increasing its efforts to keep your data and intimacy protected. As a result the iPhone and iPad get new orange and green indicators. They are displayed in the status bar whenever the device’s microphone or camera is used by an app. The new dot indicators…
