This Is A Way To Avoid Being Followed By Ads For IPhone Users

Ads for iPhone users are often annoying. (photo: doc. unsplash)

JAKARTA - Nowadays all social media and browsers are often filled with annoying ads. For example, when you want to buy shoes and look for them on the internet, then social media and the sites you visit will be filled with advertisements for these shoes.

But now, this problem can be solved with the latest features from Apple embedded in its operating system, iOS. The feature, dubbed App Tracking Transparency, was first launched on iOS 14.5.

It's now got a newer update, so it can improve your online privacy by giving you the option to turn off ad tracking in the apps you're using. You can also see all the new features in the latest version of iOS 15.

The feature may not use your data for targeted advertising, share your location data with advertisers, share your advertising ID or other identifier with third parties.

App Tracking Transparency was first announced at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2020, and it has received support from privacy advocates, but also criticism from companies like Facebook who say it will hurt its ad business.

This feature comes at the same time as Apple's other efforts to increase transparency and privacy, which Apple CEO Tim Cook calls a fundamental human right.

With the release of iOS 14.3 in December, users started seeing "nutrition labels" in apps that notified them of the data the app was requesting before downloading it from the App Store.

Here's how to use the new App Tracking Transparency feature to control which apps can track you on Apple devices.

How to Turn Off Tracking in New Apps

When you download and open a new app, you'll get a notification asking if you want to allow the app to track your activity on other companies' apps and websites. You'll also see information about what the app will track. You can tap Request App to Untrack and block the activity or Allow.

You can also opt out of app tracking on every app you download by going to Settings, clicking Privacy select Tracking, and turning off Allow Apps that Ask to be Tracked. This means any app that tries to ask for your permission will be automatically blocked from asking and notified that you have asked not to be tracked.

All apps (other than those you have allowed to be tracked in the past) will be blocked from accessing your device information used for advertising. It is important to note that this does not mean the ads will disappear. It just means that you're more likely to see generic ads instead of personalized ads.

How To Turn Off App Tracking On Downloaded Apps

For apps that you have downloaded and may have tracking permissions set up, you can still enable or disable those permissions per app.

Open Settings, tap the app, then tap to turn off Allow Tracking. Or open Settings, click Privacy select Tracking, and tap to enable or disable each app that you'll see in the list of apps that have requested permission to track your activity.

All app developers are required to request permission for tracking. If Apple finds out that a developer is tracking a user who asks not to be tracked, they will need to update their app, or potentially face being blocked from the app store.