Apple will make it difficult for apps to track your location with iOS 14

Nithin Chowdary

August 12, 2020

Apple will be introducing several new privacy features with iOS14 to restrict the accessibility of the exact location of users by apps unless its specific requirement. As we know, iOS14 will alert us when some app accesses our camera, mic, or reads clipboard content, but now, it also restricts the apps to obtain the exact location of the user. In the upcoming iOS14, Apple will give more control to users that they can allow apps to obtain exact location access or not. There will be a 'Precise Location' toggle under Location Services settings, and users can control whether they want to give an exact location or not when it's on, and this feature will most likely be turned on by default. iOS has already been an unease to significant apps like LinkedIn, TikTok, Google News, and others due to the restriction to clipboard data. It revealed that many apps go through the clipboard data for no reason at all, and it's not safe as people tend to copy IDs and passwords to clipboard. And in the same way, when it comes to location service, this new feature will force developers to work at minimal location information.

Abridged fromET CISO