Apple Says Apps Must Offer a Way To Delete Your Account Starting In Early 2022 (engadget.com) 23
Apple says that as of January 31st, 2022, all applications will need to offer people a method of deleting their accounts. This applies to all iOS, iPadOS and macOS apps. Engadget reports: The company announced this requirement alongside other App Store guideline changes at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in June as part of a push to give users more control over their data. As The Verge notes, Apple is only requiring developers to let people "initiate deletion of their account from within the app," so apps might send you to a website or even a chat with an agent before you can actually close your account.
Will they practice what they preach? (Score:3, Insightful)
Does this also apply to Apple ID? Apple iCloud Backup? etc.?
Because, last I checked, Apple has a ton of user data themselves.
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I had the same thought, having tried to delete my iCloud account the other day. I want everything in iCloud gone, and everything on my computer to remain. They don't make it easy.
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I doubt it.
Anyone who's been following Apple's "privacy" stance will notice that what Apple is really mad about is other people monetizing "their" data. They don't give a shit about your privacy. They just want to make sure that no one else is able to use "their" user data on "their" devices.
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It's been possible to do this for years.
Stupid fuck. So sure of yourself and completely fucking wrong.
Get off your high fucking horse and take a look at what Apple actually does, not what your conspiracy-addled little twerpish mind suspects they are doing.
Re: Will they practice what they preach? (Score:2)
Re:Will they practice what they preach? (Score:5, Informative)
It's been around a few years here [apple.com].
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Good question.
Deletion (a.k.a. Right to Be Forgotten) is actually an EU GDPR requirement, and as such almost certainly also applies to Apple, as they are serving EU customers.
I agree with the spirit of the GDPR, but then of course like so many things the EU gets it horribly complicated so that it becomes a "significant compliance burden for some organizations" (their own words). There's a 3 page PDF template app developers or Apple could include in their products: https://gdpr.eu/wp-content/upl... [gdpr.eu]
Re: Will they practice what they preach? (Score:2)
Yes. https://support.apple.com/en-g... [apple.com]
That's been available for some time now.
Re: Will they practice what they preach? (Score:2)
Sorry, wrong post. No idea why it ended up here.
are they excluding their own apps ? (Score:2)
I'd love to delete some Apple apps both on my phone and my computer. I get the message that I don't have the correct privileges to do that. Yeah, so who owns my phone and why won't they let me delete some useless apps?
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Such a big problem that you couldn't even name one.
Photos, Camera, Safari, App Store, Clock, Find My, Health, and Wallet can't be deleted. There may be others.
My solution is to create a folder on my home screen and stuff all the useless apps into it so they are out of sight.
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TFA is about accounts. The post I was replying to was about apps.
Legality (Score:2)
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So I wonder what this means for services which cannot legally delete your records.
The requirement is for your account to be deleted, so no one can get access using your login ID or credentials.
There is no requirement to delete data.
Define 'delete' account (Score:3)
Delete as in make the account invisible or
Delete as in remove all data as if they never had an account to begin with?
Endless free trials (Score:4, Interesting)
Sign up for a free trial. Delete account. Repeat.
It's also difficult to ban users for abusive behaviour if they can delete all evidence that they were abusive.
How far are they going to take this? (Score:2)
If you're using a brokerage or banking app, for example, is Apple going to force the bank to provide an option to close your account from your iPhone? That can be a pretty complex process, and it probably isn't something that shouldn't be done from a 5 inch touchscreen.
Something tells me that the unsubscribe link from a government sponsored service like the IRS or a police mandated location tracker also isn't going to do much, because it simply isn't an option.
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Who has an IRS "account"? is that even a thing?
Re: How far are they going to take this? (Score:2)
I know people donâ(TM)t read TFA article here, but the story at the top of this page only has five sentences, and it doesnâ(TM)t say this. Check the last sentence.