These apps use the built-in VPN tech on your iPhone and iPad to route all incoming and outgoing data through a server, and then analyze that data. It makes re-engaging users and spreading promotions simple. Here’s the blurb from one of those services, Flurry:įlurry Push notifications let you target users based on Flurry User Segments, demographic information, custom events, and user or session activity. For instance, many apps send your data to third-party analytics services. Even Apple’s App Store approvals process doesn’t prevent secret user tracking. Those are great new features, but they don’t stop apps from uploading your private data, without your permission, to anywhere on the web.

This is handy for a weather app, say, so you can enter your location, but not have it track you in the future. Now, you can grant an app location access just once.

The other new privacy tool is the finer-grained location permissions section. You also can switch off the map in these warning alerts, in Settings > Privacy > Location Services > Location Alerts. If it’s a Facebook app, you’ll probably want to shut it down right there. If it’s a mapping app, you’re probably happy letting it track you. A map will pop up on your screen, showing you the location data that has been collected and asking if you want to allow this tracking to continue.

In iOS 13, your iPhone will show an alert if an app has been tracking you in the background. iOS 13 now warns you when an app is tracking your location in the background. Some apps could be limited to only using location data while you were actually using the app, but the general rule was that these permissions were set and forget. Previously, once you granted location access to an app, it could use that data whenever it wanted to. IOS 13 offers one great new privacy-friendly feature.

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