Apple’s enhanced security protocols require apps to seek user permission, before tracking their activities across other apps, websites and networks on iPhone.
This makes it easy to deny tracking permission for unknown or unwanted apps and grant tracking permission for trusted apps that appear to have valid reasons for tracking your activities on iPhone.
In addition to this, you can totally disable the Tracking feature on iPhone, which prevents apps from asking to track your activity on iPhone.
1. Stop Apps from Asking to Track your Activity on iPhone
You can follow the steps below to Stop Apps from asking to track your activity on iPhone.
1. Go to Settings > Privacy > Tracking.
2. On the next screen, move the toggle next to Allow Apps to Request to Track to OFF position.
This will totally prevent all the Apps on your device from using permission seeking pop-ups to track your activities on iPhone.
By disabling Allow Apps to Request to Track option, you are basically informing all the Apps on iPhone not to track your activities.
2. Prevent Specific Apps from Tracking Your Activity on iPhone
You can follow the steps below to prevent specific or selected apps from tracking your activity on iPhone.
1. Go to Settings > Privacy > Tracking.
2. On the next screen, you can Allow or Deny tracking permission for specific Apps by using the toggle located next to the Apps.
Note: Keep Allow Apps to Request to Track to ON position, so that Apps can request tracking permission.
Should You Allow Certain Apps to Track Your Activity on iPhone?
You need to be aware that certain apps have valid reasons to track your activity and preventing such apps from tracking your activity on iPhone is not recommended.
For example, the music streaming App (Spotify) won’t be able to connect to Wi-Fi speakers, if it is prevented from locating and interacting with other devices on the Network.