How to enable App Privacy Reporting on your iPhone to check which apps are tracking you

The app’s privacy reporting is one of the strongest privacy features Apple revealed when it announced the iOS 15 update in June during the company’s WWDC 2021 event. This feature allows users to monitor which apps are accessing data on their iPhone, such as their camera, microphone, contacts, or location. When Apple released iOS 15 in September, it didn’t include a way for users to check the privacy report – this was eventually included in the iOS 15.2 update that rolled out on December 13. can easily track which apps are repeatedly accessing their information and denying permissions to them, and keep track of which URL apps are connecting to all day.

If you have a iPhone 6s or newer and updated smartphone iOS 15.2, you will now be able to quickly check and stop apps like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Tinder, that could be polling your location or accessing your photo library. It’s worth noting that the feature is disabled by default, so users will have to manually enable it before it can provide any information.

iOS 15’s App Privacy Reporting feature provides users with an easy way to check a site’s permission usage, network activity, network activity, and even most frequently contacted domains on smartphone. After enabling this information, here’s how you can understand it:

1. Click Setting icon and go to Privacy.
2. Scroll down and tap App privacy report.
3. Now tap any app in Data and sensor access rights and check the progress of different permissions being accessed.
4. Below Application Network Activity Tap an app to see how many (and which domains) it’s visited.
5. Click on a domain number in Most Contacted Domain Names to see which apps have accessed that domain.

This is what the Privacy Report settings page of the app looks like on iOS 15.2
Image credit: Apple

According to Apple, the App Network Activity and Most Contacted Domains section is designed to let you know if multiple apps are accessing a particular domain. This could be a sign that the domain or website is building a profile of you by matching your activity on those apps.

The app’s Privacy Reporting feature collects and displays data from your last seven days of usage, but you can reset the information at any time. Here are the steps to reset or disable App Privacy Reporting on iOS 15.2:

1. Click Setting icon and go to Privacy.
2. Scroll down and tap App privacy report.
3. Now tap Turn off app privacy reporting at the bottom.
4. If you want to disable this feature, exit the Settings app. To reset the usage data and start fresh, just enable the Privacy Reporting feature of the app using the steps mentioned at the top of the article.