Patches for 42 vulnerabilities are also included, so it's a good idea to update your iPhone and iPad now.
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Apple released iOS 15.2 for iPhone and iPad this week, the full launch of a feature you've been waiting for for a while: the app privacy report. In addition to app privacy data already showing up in the App Store, iOS 15.2 gives iPhone and iPad users a new way to see if the apps they are using are as trustworthy as they think they are.
This isn't the only new feature added in iOS 15.2, which included several new updates on how to use existing features, as well as the expansion of other privacy programs like Hide My Email . Additionally, Apple said that update 42 contains various bug fixes, many of which are critical bugs that open the kernel for arbitrary code execution.
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If the new privacy features aren't enough to get the old iOS software update page started, consider these security bugs found on your iPhone or iPad prior to version 15.2 as a quick blast.
New features in iOS 15.2
Before we get into the app's privacy report, how to use it and what to do with it, it should be mentioned some of the other features that were added or expanded in iOS 15.2, starting with Hide My Email, which got a new, simple one , but obviously necessary function - access via the iOS Mail app.
Added to iOS with iCloud +, Hide My Email is a nifty feature that creates an anonymous email address every time an iOS user tries to create a new account without giving their valuable personal email address to anyone that they could resell. .
While previous versions of iOS limited Hide My Email to websites that let you sign in to the web with an AppleID, this new feature allows mail users to simply tap the From field and select the drop-down menu when composing an email. Select the Hide My E-Mail option from the menu. Drop down menu.
Another notable feature is Legacy Contact, which allows iOS users to designate a trusted person who will grant access to their account in the event that the user dies. You can register someone by opening Settings, then tapping their Apple ID at the top of the screen. From there, tap on Password & Security and look for Legacy Contact where you can add one or more people.
Once added, a passcode will be generated which the previous contact will need along with a death certificate to transfer ownership of the account. This is a good idea for people who have sensitive information behind their Apple IDs that could disappear in an accident. This applies to accounts for personal and private use.
How to use the app's privacy report
The app privacy report counts all network connections made by your device and its apps, all data access apps and sensors, most frequently contacted domains, and more. Plus, you can explore each of these categories for even more detail, making the app's privacy report a one-stop shop for determining if something on your phone is sending or receiving data that you don't want.
You can find the app's data protection report in the Settings app. With Settings open, scroll down to Privacy and then head to the bottom of the next screen where you will find the application's privacy report. Play it
One word to remember: you may get a blank report if you haven't previously enabled data logging for app privacy, which was done in the same location in the Settings app in previous versions of iOS. 15. If you want to see data like the one shown below, you need to activate the registry and wait for iOS to generate its reports, which from now on look back on the last seven days.
If you've already collected data, you can navigate through different screens to see which hardware applications are accessing when, all domains an application contacts and all applications contact a particular domain, and more, as shown in the screenshot below. .
IOS 15.2 App Privacy Report Three Views - This is the main screen, an overview of the Twitter app details and an overview of the details for a specific domain.
There's a lot of information to analyze in the app's privacy report, which raises the inevitable privacy question: what happens to all of this data? Is Apple using them for non-privacy purposes? From the description of the Apple report on the iPhone, no.
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"The information displayed by the app privacy report is stored locally on your device. If you turn off the app's privacy reports, this information will be removed from your device. If you uninstall an application, the information reported for that application will be removed, "says the description on iOS.
Fortunately, the information that the app privacy report records is not particularly sensitive, and if you are concerned about the data recorded in it, you can turn off the app privacy report on the same screen that you land on when you click from there . Settings app screen.
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