What's new in iOS 14 privacy and security

Apple Developers Conference WWDC 2020 As we know, detection has included all updates for different operating systems Starting with iOS 14 Through iPadOS 14 And up to WatchOS 7 and MacOS Big Sur for Apple smart watches and computers, but the conference also included Apple's announcement of a large number of privacy and security features and their protection, and these features will really raise the level of security tremendously, and in the following lines we share with you all the new features.

Illustrative lists to protect privacy

One of the first and most prominent new features that will begin to be adopted in Apple's operating systems are dedicated windows called Privacy Disclosure, which allow the user to know the data that each application collects on the one hand, and you will also know if this application tracks your use of the system on the other hand.

This feature will be available to you through the application store itself, which is a correct decision from Apple because you will thus be able to know the way the application works and collect data before you download it, as well as the feature will be present on all stores of various Apple devices, not just the iPhone.

On the other hand, this feature will directly concern the developers as well, because they will now have to reveal all kinds of data that their application collects, which will appear within the store as mentioned above.

Permissions to follow via apps

Some applications, whether because they actually work in this way or for malicious purposes that track your use of other applications on your phone, or even track your visit to other sites via the browser, and previously you could not prevent these applications from tracking you in this way, but with iOS 14 you will be able to block any application Who tracks you via other apps.

Share approximate geographic location

Some applications need access to your geographical location and this is normal, but while using these applications you share your actual geographic location with the utmost accuracy, something that some may consider a breach of their privacy, for this comes the new Proxy Location feature, which will allow you to share your approximate location.

To put it simply, instead of letting the application you use know that you live in such-and-such street in such-and-such area, it will now inform it of the area without full details of your physical location, but this feature may not be a good choice for applications like Uber that need your precise location so that the driver can reach you.

Microphone or camera usage indicator

This feature is considered the best among the new features, and simply the phone will now show an orange light when using the phone for the microphone or camera! This feature will allow you to know whether any application is using the camera or microphone completely anonymously, as the feature found in modern laptops.

The new cursor will be located near the network icon and will light up even if you are using the phone's camera application of your own free will, and at any time and if you see that this indicator lights up, this necessarily means that there is an application that uses the camera or microphone at the same moment. Good privacy protection feature isn't it?

Big update for Sign in With Apple

Apple revealed at the conference while talking about security and privacy settings that the Sign in With Apple feature We told you in detail about it before It now has more than 200 million users! This feature simply allows you to log into any website or application using an Apple account, which provides a lot of privacy and security settings, and Apple also announced a new update that will allow users to transfer their account from another service such as logging in with a Google and Facebook account to the Apple service smoothly and directly.

Safari security and privacy settings

Finally, Apple announced additional security and privacy settings that came to the Safari internet browser, and within the new update the browser will get a new button named Privacy or Privacy, and through this button you will be able to control and view tracking settings while you browse any site and this button will reveal to you what Whether this site includes Trackers tracking features in the first place or not! In addition, Apple has also announced that Safari will receive the largest update in its history to provide it with greater browsing speed and more features.

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ZDNet