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TECHNOLOGY CORNER
Protect The Privacy of Your iOS 13 Device
CHRISTOPHER B. HOPKINS
It has been two years since we covered
iPhone and iPad security in this column.
The risks have only increased while several
privacy settings have become more difficult
to find. To echo the Fourth District’s recent
assessment in a real-time cell phone
tracking case: “[t]his presents significant
privacy concerns.” Make sure your device
is running iOS 13.x (Settings / General
/ Software Update) and then check the
following:
Apple Is Tracking You: Under Settings /
Privacy / Location Services, scroll all the way
down to System Services. Location-Based
Apple Ads, Location-Based Suggestions,
iPhone Analytics, Popular Near Me, and
Routing & Traffic should be off. Turn off
Significant Locations.
Google Maps Is Tracking You: Open Google
Maps and select your profile in the upper
right corner. Select Your Data in Maps, then
“See & delete activity.” Hit the three dots in
the upper right corner and then Settings.
They don’t make this easy, do they? For
true security, Location History should be
“off” and delete your all Location History.
At a minimum, under “Automatically
delete Location History,” choose “Keep for 3
months.”
prevent this intrusion, go to Settings / Mail
and toggle Load Remote Images to off. If an
email contains an image you want to see,
just click the banner at the top when you
open the email.
able to keylog what you type because you
granted them “all access.” Make sure you
know which apps can read your texts under
General / Keyboard / Keyboards. Delete
anything which is unfamiliar.
I See When You Opened My Text: Under Are Text Messages Going to Other Devices?
Settings / Messages, turn off “Send Read Are iMessages being pushed to other
Receipts.”
devices on your Apple account? Maybe. To
keep your chats private, make sure Settings
I See You Are Not in Your Office: Why / Messages / Send & Receive is set to your
broadcast that you are out of the office? phone only and no other devices or email.
Turn off “sent from my iPhone” under
Settings / Mail / Signatures (leave it blank). Health: Unless you intended an app to
There is still another trick. When sending a access this feature, only Health should be
reply, your email will be entitled “Re:” when listed under Settings / Health / Data.
you reply on a mobile device whereas it will
be “RE,” with a capital E, if you are logged in
via computer. So an email which is entitled, Christopher B. Hopkins handles privacy and
“Re: [title]” is coming from a handheld cybersecurity matters with McDonald Hopkins
device. When it matters, you can manually LLC ([email protected]) .
capitalize the letter “e” to prevent leaking
that information.
AirDrop: Are you wasting battery and
creating a security risk by constantly
broadcasting an open AirDrop signal?
In Settings / General / AirDrop, select
Receiving Off.
Are Photos Revealing Your GPS Location?
By default, your device inserts location
People Are Tracking You: Under Settings / data into your photographs which permits
Privacy / Location Services, check under someone to find you if, for example, you
Share My Location that this setting is off post that picture on social media. Under
unless you trust the listed Friends.
Location Services, scroll down to Camera
and set to “never.”
Apps Are Tracking You: Again, under
Location Services, check the long list of We Can See Your Deleted Photos: Anyone
apps. Most should be set to never or “while with access to your device can view recently
using.”
deleted pictures. Open the Photos app and
scroll down to find your “Recently Deleted.”
Turn Off Facebook’s Facial Recognition: Open that folder and choose Select and
In the Facebook app, select the three lines Delete All.
in the bottom right corner. Scroll down to
Settings & Privacy and hit Settings. Under Access to Your Camera, Microphone,
Privacy, select Face Recognition and hit Bluetooth: Under Settings / Privacy, check
“no” to turn it off.
these categories to see which apps have
access to see, hear, and connect. Many apps
I See You When You Opened My Email: If over-reach (e.g., why does LinkedIn need
someone sends you an email with an image, access to your microphone?). Shut them
they can tell when you opened that email out. If you need that feature while using the
(it’s called a read receipt). When you open app later, it will notify you.
the image, it remotely loads the image from
the sender’s server which then reveals Keyboards: While you love to send GIF and
when you opened the email. Gotcha! To Bitmoji images, those services may be
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