Privacy protections in upcoming iOS 15

Focus on privacy

This release of iOS will see a greater focus on privacy than we’d expected:

Mail Privacy Protection: prevent third parties from tracking you opening emails in the Mail app

App Privacy Report: see how often each app has used permissions such as camera or microphone

On-Device Speech Recognition: audio is process on your device by default, making it more secure

Enhanced Internet Privacy with Cloud+: Private Relay allows users to protect their traffic like a VPN

Hide My Email: Users can now hide their email address within the Mail app, for greater protection

HomeKit Secure Video: end-to-end encryption and storage for home security video footage

Share current location: allow sharing of a location just once, to prevent ongoing tracking

Secure paste: paste from other applications with alerts only when the clipboard is accessed without their knowledge

With App Privacy Report, users can see how often each app has used the permission they’ve previously granted to access their location, photos, camera, microphone and contacts during the past seven days.

Users can also find out with whom their data may be shared by seeing all the third-party domains an app is contacting.

Built directly into Safari, iCloud settings and Mail, Hide My Email enables users to create and delete as many addresses as needed at any time, helping give users control of who is able to contact them.

iCloud+ expands built-in support for HomeKit Secure Video, so users can connect more cameras than ever before in the Home app, while giving them end-to-end encrypted storage for home security video footage that will not count towards their storage capacity.

Focus on privacy

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