Apple doubles user privacy and security with iOS 17!
With the first developer beta of iOS 17 available, Apple continues to update information on the developer website with more detailed information and resources about the features that will be available in this system update. operation. Thus, in the most recent publication, an in-depth study of the anti-tracking protection.
In future updates, Safari automatically removes URL tracking parameters in incognito mode and prevents cross-site tracking. Also, the links will continue to work as expected, but they will no longer have unique identifiers.
This is how the Advanced tracking and fingerprint protection
The function that Apple named Advanced tracking and fingerprint protectionalso works for shared links in Messages and Mail apps and regular Safari browsing, also on iPadOS 17 and macOS 14.
Users who have the first beta version available on the iPhone, or those who wish to download it, can enable this feature by following the steps below:
- open app Setting.
- Choose Safari → Advanced → Advanced tracking and fingerprint protection.
- choose All navigations.
In case you don’t want to use it, users can also disable the feature in this menu at any time.
From Apple, they called updates to their privacy policies ones that make it easier to implement critical privacy models that build customer trust in their app.
Other privacy-related updates introduced in iOS 17 include:
- Communications Security: includes protection related to photos and videos that may show intimate content. In addition to the Messages app, it covers what’s sent and received by AirDrop, the system-wide photo picker, FaceTime messages, contact posters in the Phone app, and third-party apps.
- Intimate Content Warning: You now have the option to blur the intimate content of the photos or videos you receive, so you can choose whether you want to see them or not. This feature will be available in Messages, AirDrop, contact posters in the Phone app, FaceTime messages, and third-party apps.
- Hermetic mode: Increase security and better protect against sophisticated cyberattacks with extended hermetic mode that allows
- Improved permissions: Choose which photos to share from one app, knowing the rest of your photo library will remain private. And authorize an application to add an event to the calendar, but without having access to your information.
- Keep the correct distance from the screen: Due to increased screen time, the risk of myopia increases in children. You can turn on the Screen Distance toggle, where the system notifies you when you hold your iPhone or iPad too close for a long time.
- Automatically remove validation codes: This option affects verification codes received via Messages and Mail after inserting them with AutoFill.
