Protect Your iPhone with These 6 Awesome iOS14 Privacy Features
Apple always keeps improving its product line from every edge and doesn’t matter its hardware or software. Recently, Apple released a new iPhone 12 series with whole new iOS 14. Apart from taking user privacy seriously, Apple has added some great privacy features with iOS 14 release that improves the iPhone usability. The Pro iPhone users must use these simple options to protect privacy and information.
The new OS has many other useful features, but these six privacy features of iOS 14 make it more secure than any other flagship phone available in the market today.
Apple iPhone Ultimate Privacy Features on iOS 14:
- Hide Precise Location
- Orange and Green Dot Recording Indicator
- iPhone Back Tap Feature
- Security Recommendations for Passwords
- Hide Apps
- Hide Photos
Setting up these options on your new iPhone makes your life easier and secure so let’s learn, how to secure your iPhone like a Pro?
1. Hide Precise Location
Yes, location is one of the most used features on apps like Facebook, Twitter, Service Locator and many other apps. Unfortunately, lots of these apps collecting your data for in-direct marketing purpose. E.g. If you check-in to some shopping mall, you might start to see the related sponsored ads from various brands on your social media accounts. That is why some big tech giants provide social media platforms services for free to make money from advertisers.
Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services to hide the Precise Location, where you can see every app current setting. Disallow location tracking to the apps that do not need to get your location data. Changing these settings protect your privacy and keeps you away from unwanted promotional offers or unwanted services.
2. Orange and Green Dot Recording Indicator
Are you feeling sometimes that someone is spying on you with the help of your phone? Now, iPhone has Orange, and Green Dot with iOS 14 at the top of your iPhone screen indicating your device is in use even if it’s happening as background usage. An Orange Dot on top of the screen means the microphone is in use. And if you can see Green Dot at the top of your phone screen, it shows your iPhone camera is in use.
However, it’s not like someone is watching on you all the time. But you may have allowed access to your camera and microphone to apps like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp etc. And if one of these apps in use, you can notice that orange or green dot at the top of your iPhone screen. So, don’t be afraid, it’s quite common! But you can always turn the permissions off for apps that don’t need your microphone or camera access for security reasons.
3. Back Tap Feature
The next feature is not a privacy feature, but it helps a lot by enabling some shortcuts with Back Tap feature on the iPhone. For example, while you are on the phone and you need to mute your phone for some reason, you can mute your iPhone by a merely double or triple tap at the back. You have to configure your iPhone Back Tap settings as per your convenience to use such a great feature of iOS 14.
To activate Back Tap option, go to the Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Back Tap. Here you can set up your desired actions for Double Tap or Triple Tap like Open App, Taking Screenshot, Mute iPhone, Lock Screen, Wakeup Siri and more. Isn’t it a cool feature that makes life lot easier by accessing your frequently used apps or functions with just a few taps on the back of the iPhone?
The Back Tap option is available only on iPhone 8 and newer models with iOS 14 update. Also, make sure you have a compatible case if you are using one else the option won’t work as you expect.
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Originally published at https://decoding.com.au on January 24, 2021.
