iOS 15.2 Beta Includes App Privacy Report and Auto Call Updates 9
Just a few days after releasing iOS 15.1 and iPadOS 15.1, Apple has seeded the first betas of iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2 to developers for testing purposes, with the update adding promised iOS 15 features like App Privacy Report. MacRumors reports: App Privacy Report is one of the iOS 15 additions that Apple showed off at WWDC. It's a new privacy feature that's designed to allow users to see how often apps have accessed their sensitive info like location, photos, camera, microphone, and contacts across the last seven days. It's also set up to show which apps have contacted other domains and how recently they've contacted them so you can keep an eye on what apps are doing behind the scenes.
Auto Call, the feature that lets call emergency services with a series of button presses, has been updated in iOS 15.2. You can now press the side button rapidly multiple times to initiate, or hold down the side button and the volume button together. There's now a longer eight-second countdown before a call is placed, which is up from the prior three-second countdown. Other features and/or changes include a new card-style appearance to Notification Summary and the Communication Safety feature. "Communication Safety is built into the Messages app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and it will warn children and their parents when sexually explicit photos are received or sent from a child's device, with Apple using on-device machine learning to analyze image attachments," reports MacRumors.
Auto Call, the feature that lets call emergency services with a series of button presses, has been updated in iOS 15.2. You can now press the side button rapidly multiple times to initiate, or hold down the side button and the volume button together. There's now a longer eight-second countdown before a call is placed, which is up from the prior three-second countdown. Other features and/or changes include a new card-style appearance to Notification Summary and the Communication Safety feature. "Communication Safety is built into the Messages app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and it will warn children and their parents when sexually explicit photos are received or sent from a child's device, with Apple using on-device machine learning to analyze image attachments," reports MacRumors.
Evil, I tells ya.... (Score:3, Funny)
Evil through and through. They must be stopped.
Good thing - airing out the laundry (Score:4, Interesting)
The App Privacy Report is definitely a Good Thing. Now users have a chance of seeing for themselves how sleazy some of the apps are.
I hope it would also include the same for iOS system tasks, that would put the ball squarely in Google's court.
Campaign will be ramped up (Score:3, Insightful)
Watch the media and big business campaign against Apple be ramped up much further
Re:But will it show you all of Apples tracking? (Score:5, Informative)
they hoover up: your device information, location
So I did what you said and went to the apple support page, guess what I read (among many other things that don't match your conspiratorial ranting): "If Location Services is enabled and you've granted permission to the App Store or Apple News apps to access your location,"
Your mindless hatred of Apple has clouded your ability to consider things rationally. You should work on that.
easily triggered (Score:2)
If holding the side and volume button down for 8 seconds can trigger it, that sounds like it can happen inadvertently. for example if the phone is in a tight spot in your backpack or pockets.
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