This iPhone setting shows how apps track you

Of course, you don’t want to be constantly tracked on your iPhone. Now you can easily see which apps do that.

Privacy has become one of Apple’s pet peeves. The company wants to ensure that users can use the phone as anonymously as possible in various ways. It has therefore already taken a number of measures for the iPhone. Initiatives that companies like Facebook are not waiting for at all. They want to follow you in order to sell customized advertisements.

Privacy on the iPhone

One of the most important measures Apple has taken for privacy is the App Tracking Transparency. This feature was introduced with iOS 14.5, but not everyone knows it well. This allows you to decide for yourself which apps are allowed to track you. You will often see a pop-up for this, but it may be that you have already forgotten certain settings.

Fortunately, there is a solution for this, because Apple has a special menu on your iPhone where you can see who follows you and in which activities they do this. To do this, first go to the settings and then to Privacy. Then you go to tracking.

Adjust settings

In the tracking menu of your iPhone you can see which apps are tracking you. Here you can easily grant or deny access to apps. Fortunately, there is also an option to deny all tracking requests. To do this, you only need to uncheck ‘Allow tracking requests from apps’ in that menu. This way you will no longer receive requests from apps.

By the way, those are not the only privacy settings you can adjust in the Privacy menu. For example, you can see which apps have access to your photos or your health data. Incidentally, just like with tracking per app, you can choose which access they have or refuse it.