App Privacy Report was one of the most powerful privacy features Apple unveiled when it announced the iOS 15 update in June at the company’s WWDC 2021 event. This feature allows users to monitor apps that access their data on their iPhone, such as their camera, microphone, contacts, or their location. When Apple released iOS 15 in September, it didn’t include a way for users to check the privacy report — this was eventually included in the iOS 15.2 update that came out on December 13. Users can now easily monitor which apps are constantly accessing their information and deny permissions to those apps, while also keeping track of which URLs apps connect to throughout the day.
If you have an iPhone 6s or newer smartphone and have updated to iOS 15.2, you can now quickly check and stop apps like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Tinder, which can request your location or access your camera roll. It’s worth noting that the feature is disabled by default, so users will have to manually enable it before it can provide information.
Here’s how to quickly enable and use your app privacy report on iOS 15.2:
Tap the Settings icon and go to Privacy.
Scroll down and tap App Privacy Report
To enable the feature, tap Enable App Privacy Report.
Come back after a few minutes to see the list of apps in the report.
The app privacy reporting feature on iOS 15 provides users with an easy way to check permission usage, network activity, website network activity and also the most visited domains on the smartphone. After enabling this information, you can understand the information as follows:
- Tap the Settings icon and go to Privacy.
- Scroll down and tap App Privacy Report.
- Now tap an app under Data and sensor access and check the timeline of different access permissions.
- below App network activity tap an app to see how many (and which) domains an app has access to.
- Tap some of the domains under Most Contacted Domains to see which apps can access that domain.
According to Apple, the App Network Activity and Most Contacted Domains sections are designed to tell you if multiple apps can access a particular domain. This could be a sign that the domain or website is building a profile about you by combining your activity in those apps.
The App Privacy Report feature collects and displays data from the last seven days of your usage, but you can reset the information at any time. Here are the steps to reset or disable the app privacy report on iOS 15.2:
- Tap the Settings icon and go to Privacy.
- Scroll down and tap App Privacy Report.
- Now tap Disable App Privacy Report At the bottom.
- To disable the feature, exit the Settings app. To reset the usage data and start over, simply enable the app privacy report feature using the steps listed at the beginning of the article.
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