According to two developers, with iOS 14.6, Apple started sending every tap a user makes on the App Store to itself.
Apple calls privacy a “fundamental human right.” Every year, the company introduces new privacy features to help users not be tracked. One of the most controversial and also essential functions is called App Tracking Transparency, in which users need to consent to whether an app can or cannot track them.
According to two developers, with iOS 14.6, Apple started sending every tap a user makes on the App Store to itself – even with data usage and personalized ads off.“as the user browses the App Store app, detailed usage data is sent to Apple simultaneously. The data contains IDs to map the behavior to a profile. Data shown in the video is 152KB.” They call “the level of details” Apple collects “too much even if the user consented to share analytics data with Apple.
Two interesting points are that a prior version of iOS 14.6, iOS 14.5, introduced the App Tracking Transparency feature – explained above – and currently, Apple sees itself in the middle of a controversy as it wants to expand ads across the iOS system. A few weeks ago, Apple started to suggest more ads on the Apple Store. That said, developers complained that even educational children apps had gambling apps showing as related applications. After a few days, the companyMysk developers say it’s unclear whether Apple is still collecting App Store analytics data in iOS 16. Still, it seems the way Apple is collecting data is not related to an iOS update but more of a server-side choice.
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