yo what's up guys it's jeff from updated and today we are taking a look at some of the new
privacy settings you need to take advantage of in ios 15. so get your idevices with ios 15 installed
onto them and let's go ahead and get started okay so first up we are going to be checking out some
of the data sharing toggles you can turn off if you don't want the data from your device to be
shared with other people now to do this head into the settings app then go into the privacy menu
now in this menu scroll down to the very bottom and look for the menu option called analytics
and improvements now go into that menu and here you will see a bunch of toggles for data sharing
features and where they are going now i personally just toggle off the first option which turns off
all data sharing completely but you can go down the very long list and select your own options
should you want to still leave some of them on and share some of that data with apple
or other partners of theirs now next up is a safari setting that enables you to hide your
ip address when browsing to use this feature go into the settings app then head into the safari
menu that menu is about halfway down when you first enter the settings app now once in that
menu go about three-fourths of the way down and you will find the privacy and security section
in this menu and you want to look for the hide ip address option now you can go into that
specific menu and select your preferences but i personally hide my ip address from trackers
and websites just to ensure i'm most private when browsing okay so the next setting has to do with
mail privacy and how you use the apple mail app enabling privacy protection for your mail
app will stop people from knowing when you open your mail and what you are doing with your mail
by hiding your ip address and blocking trackers that send back data on read statuses of emails
now to do this open up the settings app then go down to the mail menu which is in the same section
of the safari menu now once in the mail menu go down to the messages section and you'll find a
menu called privacy protection now in this menu you'll have the option to enable or disable the
abilities i just went over and of course you can turn this on or off at any time with zero effect
on your inbox now the next two features do require a subscription to icloud plus but i would highly
recommend that you do get that subscription just to enable these two very important features so the
first is also email related and it's called hide my email to access this feature go into the icloud
menu in the settings app and from here go down to the menu option called hide my email in this menu
you'll be able to create essentially dummy email addresses that you can give to websites and apps
that could potentially send you junk mail and they will forward all this mail to a normal email now
this will allow you to remain anonymous to the people you don't want knowing your real email
address so that's very important because there's a lot of people out there that you don't want
to have that contact that may sell your data so you can actually provide them with a fake email
and then they won't have your re real email to sell to others or to give to others uh through
like mailing lists or anything like that now the last and final feature is icloud private relay
which can also be found in the icloud menu as well now when you enable this feature the safari
data you use on your phone will go through apple's own servers which will hide your ip
address and browsing activity from the internet and also from apple now this will do things like
stop websites and businesses from tracking your browsing activity and sending you targeted ads
it will keep your ip address private from those who intend to try to cyber attack you
and it will also protect your critical information like credit and debit cards as you make purchases
online now very quickly one extra feature i wanted to show you is what's called a privacy report and
you can generate one by going into the settings app then going on to the privacy menu now at the
very bottom of this menu there's a option called record app activity and here you can turn on this
feature to record your app activity and how your apps use your data for seven days your phone will
essentially generate a report and you can see data on how apps use your microphone location and
how they track your activity on the internet as well so guys those were a few of the new privacy
features in ios 15 and of course if you have any questions about today's video you can leave those
in the comments section down below but yeah we hope to see you in some future ios 15 content
but until then make sure you check out some of these awesome privacy features in today's video
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