How to change iPhone privacy settings: 9 tips from Apple

The Apple Tips app on iOS has been around for some time and the company constantly updates it with new content over the years. Now, a new collection of privacy tips has been added with Apple’s recommendations for changing the iPhone’s privacy settings.

Apple is more focused on privacy than ever in the past few months. This includes new features to ensure your privacy on Apple devices, your new ad tracking privacy feature set to launch soon, the launch of iOS app privacy labels, new privacy ads, and even keeping Google under control.

We covered many of these privacy / security aspects with detailed guides:

Now the Apple Tips app has a new collection with 9 suggestions for “taking control of your information” and how to change your iPhone’s privacy settings (iPad too). You probably know some or most of them, but you can learn something new and it’s always a good idea to do a privacy / security analysis.

How to change iPhone privacy settings - Apple Tips app notification

Change iPhone privacy settings: 9 tips from Apple

  • If you don’t have the Apple Tips app, you can download it for free from the App Store (also works on iPad)
  • You can see a notification about the new privacy collection, but if not, open the app
  • Swipe down a bit to find Privacy
  • The 9 tips include: Log in with Apple, automatically generate passwords with iOS, check password security recommendations, understand when apps are using your camera / microphone, hide message views, how to share approximate location, hide photos of your library, use private browse and check Safari’s privacy report

Here is a look at some of them:

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