What Is Online Privacy? 5 Everyday Leaks and How to Close Them
Online privacy means you decide who sees your data. The 5 most common everyday leaks on an iPhone and a simple fix for each one.
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Online privacy means you decide who sees your data. The 5 most common everyday leaks on an iPhone and a simple fix for each one.
Your iPhone lists every device signed in to your Apple Account. Two minutes to check the list and remove an old phone, laptop or tablet you no longer use.
Airport Wi-Fi is free, busy and easy to fake. Use this 2-minute checklist at the gate to keep your accounts and travel bookings private.
Give apps a random email address that forwards to your inbox, and switch it off when spam starts. How to use Hide My Email on iPhone.
Set AirDrop to Contacts Only, use Everyone for 10 Minutes when you need it, and hide your full name from people nearby. Two iPhone settings, one minute.
The green and orange dots on your iPhone show when an app uses the camera or microphone. Learn what they mean, see which app it was, and switch off access in two minutes.
Photos can carry the exact place they were taken. Remove the location before you share, decide whether the Camera saves it at all, and limit which apps see your library, in two minutes.
Use Safety Check on your iPhone to see which people, apps and devices can reach your location, photos and account, and remove the ones you no longer want, in three minutes.
See which apps asked to track you across other apps and websites, switch them off, and stop new apps from asking, in two minutes on your iPhone.
Five iPhone Wi-Fi settings to check in three minutes: private Wi-Fi address, Limit IP Address Tracking, Auto-Join, forgotten networks and the privacy warnings.
Five iPhone location settings to check in three minutes: which apps can see where you are, Precise Location, background tracking, Significant Locations and the location hidden in your photos.
Six Safari settings on iPhone that cut tracking in four minutes: cross-site tracking, hiding your IP from trackers, fingerprinting protection, a Face ID lock on private tabs, the fraud warning and old history.
Your locked iPhone can still show your messages and sign-in codes to anyone nearby. Five settings, three minutes: hide previews, limit what works when locked, a stronger passcode, faster auto-lock and Stolen Device Protection.
Your iPhone can show which apps opened your location, photos or contacts and which companies they contacted. Here is how to turn on App Privacy Report, read it in five minutes and act on what you find.
Every VPN says it protects your privacy. The privacy policy is where it has to say exactly what it keeps. Five questions to ask, what to search for, and three warning signs.
Most account break-ins start with a normal-looking message. Five quick questions catch almost every phishing text or email — and here is what to do if you already clicked.
Passwords leak. Two-factor authentication adds a second step a stranger can't copy. Here is which kind to pick and the order to turn it on, starting with the accounts that matter most.
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