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iOS 14.5 Looks like the Next “Hottest” Update after the Very First iOS 14 – Here’s why.

Hot in Privacy. Hot in Emoji. Hot in Mask ID.

Nikhil Vemu
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5 min readApr 26, 2021

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Apple types ‘Big Bang’ in the Vice City game of privacy. If you haven’t played it, the cheat code actually blasts all the vehicles that intrude in your way.

So that means, in this big update, Apple made plans to give freedom to the users to choose whether they want apps to track their activities or stay private, much to the dismay of Facebook and Google.

Here’s all what Apple is bringing to us chiefly in the upcoming coveted update iOS 14.5.

#1. ATT (App Tracking Transparency) Framework:

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This is a long-awaited feature by most users, not only of Apple. We’ve been constantly giving our data to tech companies without knowledge by our searches or the type of content we often consume.

They would then recommend favourable content and enable personalised ads. This is a cool facility, but some perceive it to be a threat to their privacy. Now, Apple brings ATT to the upcoming update so the users can choose…

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