Your iPhone will soon have hidden list revealing WORST apps and websites ‘spying on you’
APPLE'S system that exposes creepy apps that track your location or snoop on your browsing history has finally arrived.
The iPhone's new "Privacy Report" feature gives users an overview of what information their apps have access to and what they're sharing.
It sits in Settings, and was launched with the release of a new beta version of the iOS operating system this week.
Betas are early forms of software sent out to testers and developers. You can only access iOS betas if you're part of Apple's beta programme.
Apple announced Privacy Report at its WWDC 2021 conference in June.
You can use it to see what permissions apps have and how often they have used those permissions over the past seven days.
For instance, the report will show the number of times an app has accessed your location, photos, camera, microphone, contacts and more.
To find out who your data might be shared with, you can also view which other web domains the app is contacting.
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It's designed to give users a better idea of exactly who is seeing the data collected by their favourite apps.
The new feature is available in the beta version of iOS 15.2. You can grab it by joining Apple's .
Privacy Report is not guaranteed to make it into the final version of 15.2, which is expected to roll out to general users in the coming months.
Apple has made the privacy of iPhone users one of its key focuses in recent years.
Last year, the tech titan added "privacy labels" to app listings on its App Store.
The labels show how an app will use your personal data, such as tracking your location, contacts, browsing history, online purchases and more.
And earlier this year, Apple rolled out a prompt that let users easily opt out of some forms of app tracking.
The move sparked backlash from companies such as Facebook, who said the troves of data collected by its apps are vital to small businesses.
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