January 28 is the Data Privacy Daythe day dedicated to the protection of personal data. A global initiative that underlines the importance of protecting personal information online. But despite protecting their data, both everyone’s great desire, few know each other what you have to do so that no one enters our privacy.
To help users, Apple has selected 10 functions who protect users’ privacy and that allow you to have data control over all devices. Here’s which ones:
1. Protect or block the apps: Thanks to the possibility of blocking or hiding the apps you will have the tranquility that nobody, even inadvertently, can see something that does not want to show in plain sight on the screen or during the sharing of a device.
2. Share specific contacts with an app: Thanks to the improvements introduced by iOS 18 for contact authorizations, people can choose which contacts to share with an app, instead of allowing full access.
3. Use Safari’s private navigation. When activating the pages that are visited are not stored, the chronology the automatic filling information. Apple has introduced the possibility of blocking default the open windows in private navigation, so users can keep all the cards that want and reopen them later by unlocking them by unlocking them with Faceid, Touchid or with the access code.
4. Anti-transception protection in the links: Some links visited may contain extra information added to trace the activities on the web. The anti-transreco protection in the links removes the unnecessary trackers added to the URLs that are shared in messages and emails, and when you open safaris in private navigation mode.
5. Safety control. When the security of personal data is at risk, you can use security control to quickly stop sharing information, or to review and update the data that is shared with other people and apps. Security control also helps to check with those who are sharing information, limit messages and facetime on iPhone, change the access code.
6. Report on the privacy of the apps. Designed to offer a more complete overview of the way the apps use the data they have access. When enabled, this function shows with what frequency apps access personal data, for example, location, camera, microphone, etc.
7. Hide your email. This function, available with the icloud+subscription, “hide my email” allows you to create random and unique emails to use, for example, in apps or on websites, thus avoiding sharing the private personal email address.
8. Approximate position: Thanks to the Apple location options, you can choose which apps will see a certain position in an approximate way, within a radius of about 25 square kilometers, rather than the exact one. In this way you can use the apps to find the restaurants nearby or check the local weather forecast without giving more information than strictly necessary.
9. Information on registration indicators: When an app is using the microphone or iPhone camera, a recording indicator appears. Viewed in the form of an orange dot when the microphone and green is in use when the camera is in use (or both), the indicator informs what happens on the device.
10. Privy private icloud.
This function available with the icloud+subscription is designed to protect privacy, ensuring that when you surf the web in Safari, nobody (not even Apple) can see who is the person who is browsing and which sites is visiting.