To guarantee your privacy, it is a good idea to check the settings-in these iPhone tips we show what to look out for.
7 iPhone tips for your privacy
If you find privacy important, you are in the right place with your iPhone. But it is nevertheless important to check the settings from time to time. In these iPhone tips you can read what you can do and what you should pay attention to!
1. Use the private mode against tracking
Sometimes additional information is added to web links so that websites can follow you. This information is automatically deleted from links that you share in messages and mail, while the links themselves continue to work. In Safari’s private mode, this information is also removed from the links. So preferably use Safari and switch on the private mode. You do the latter like that:
- Open safari on your iPhone;
- Press the tab icon for a long time at the bottom right;
- In the shortcut menu, tap ‘New private tab’.
2. On or off important locations
Apple keeps track of which locations you are often. Locations that you often visit and where you spend a lot of time are called an ‘important location’ by Apple. From these locations you can see to the minute how long you have been there.
- Go to ‘Settings’;
- Choose ‘privacy and security’;
- Tap ‘location facilities’;
- Scroll all the way down and choose ‘system’;
- Then tap ‘important locations’.
Apple uses this function to share useful information with you in apps such as cards, agenda and photos. The company itself cannot see important locations, but in theory other people can try to get there if they have your iPhone – even if you need Face ID or your fingerprint for this.
3. Take advantage of the safety control
If you are concerned about your personal safety, you can use Safety control Stop sharing information quickly. Via safety control you can check with whom you share information, limit access to messages and Facetime on your iPhone, change your access code and much more.
Safety control is only available on an iPhone with iOS 16 or newer. To use safety control, you need an Apple account for which two-factor authentication is used. You start safety control as follows:
- Open the app settings;
- Tap ‘privacy and security’;
- Scroll down and tap ‘security control’.
4. Switch off your exact location
Do you not want apps to see your precise location? A number of apps, including Instagram and Facebook, use your exact location. You also switch this off at Settings. That works like this:
- Go to ‘Settings’;
- Choose ‘privacy and security’;
- Go to ‘location facilities’;
- Tap an app to see if it has access to your exact location;
- Turn off the exact location at the apps where you do not want this.
Surprisingly many apps have access to your exact location. More examples of these apps are the NS app, Snapchat and even date stick. Often it is not necessary at all that these apps know your exact location, so you can turn this off to protect your privacy.
5. Lock apps
By locking apps you know for sure that others will not see any personal information when you show your screen to someone, or lend your iPhone. If you lock an app, Face ID, Touch ID or an access code is needed to use the app. You can lock an app as follows:
- Press the app that you want to lock for a long time;
- In the shortcut menu, tap ‘Require Face ID’;
- In the new window, also tap ‘Vereis Face ID
If you want to remove the extra security, it works in almost the same way. In the second step, only choose ‘Require Face ID’.
6. Hide your e-mail address
With ‘Hide my e-mail address’ (part of an iCloud+subscription) you can create unique, random e-mail addresses for use in apps and on websites. This way your personal e-mail address remains private, regardless of whether you are creating a new account in an app, sign up online for a newsletter, or make a purchase via Apple Pay. You can create addresses for ‘hide my e -mail address’ as follows:
- Open the app settings;
- Tap your name and then on ‘iCloud’;
- Tap ‘Hide my e-mail address’.
You see all the addresses you have already used there. If you want to create a new one, tap ‘+ Create new e-mail address’.
7. Share a specific contact person with an app
With the improved access rights for contacts since iOS 18 you can indicate exactly to which contact persons an app has access. That way you don’t have to give apps access to all your contacts. You set it as follows:
- Open the app settings;
- Tap ‘privacy and security’ and then on ‘contacts’;
- Choose an app in the list and select ‘None’, ‘limited access’ or ‘full access’;
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