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And powerful security features help prevent anyone except you from being able to access your information. We are constantly working on new ways to keep your personal information safe.</p> </div> </section> <article class="section section-safari" data-component-list="ProgressiveImage" data-analytics-section-engagement="name:safari"> <div class="section-content"> <a id="safari"></a> <header class="article-header"> <div class="article-title-wrapper"> <h2 class="typography-subpage-article-headline article-title">Safari</h2> <figure class="article-figure" data-progressive-image role="img" aria-label="Privacy Report shown in Safari browser on iPad."></figure> </div> <div class="typography-subpage-article-intro article-intro"> <p>Safari is a browser that includes state-of-the-art features to help protect your privacy, defending you against cross-site tracking and minimizing the data passed to third parties.</p> <a href="/web/20230129175353/https://www.apple.com/safari/docs/Safari_White_Paper_Nov_2019.pdf" data-analytics-title="view the safari privacy white paper" class="icon-wrapper article-link"><span class="icon-copy">View the Safari Privacy white paper (PDF)</span></a></div> </header> <div class="article-body"> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Passkeys</h3> <p>Passkeys replace passwords with an easier and safer sign-in method. Your private key is never kept on a web server, so you don’t have to worry about website leaks compromising your accounts. And passkeys never leave your device and are specific to the site you created them for, making it almost impossible for them to be phished. Passkeys are end-to-end encrypted and sync across your Apple devices through iCloud Keychain. On Apple devices, simply use Face ID or Touch ID to sign in. For websites or apps on non-Apple devices, use your saved passkey by scanning the QR code with your iPhone and iPad and using Face ID or Touch ID to authenticate.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> <div class="violator-container"> <span class="violator violator-reduced">New</span> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Intelligent Tracking Prevention</h3> <p>You may have noticed that when you look at something to buy online, you suddenly start seeing it everywhere else you go on the web. This happens when a third party tracks cookies and other website data to show you ads across various websites.</p> <p>Intelligent Tracking Prevention uses the latest in machine learning and on-device intelligence to fight this cross-site tracking. It hides your IP address from trackers so what you look at on the web remains your business — not an advertiser’s. And you don’t have to change any settings for these protections because Intelligent Tracking Prevention is on by default.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Privacy Report</h3> <p>Your Privacy Report shows you all the cross-site trackers that are being blocked by Intelligent Tracking Prevention in Safari. You can access your report from the Safari toolbar and the Safari start page.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Password monitoring</h3> <p>Safari checks to see whether your saved Keychain passwords have been compromised in data breaches. It uses secure and private cryptographic techniques to regularly check derivations of your passwords against a publicly available list of breached passwords. If Safari identifies a potentially compromised password, your device will notify you. Your password information is never revealed as part of this process — not even to Apple.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Social widget tracking prevention</h3> <p>Social widgets embedded on websites, such as like buttons, share buttons, and comment fields, can be used to track you even if you don’t click them or use them. Safari blocks this tracking by default, and it prevents social widgets from accessing your identity unless you grant them permission.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Fingerprinting defense</h3> <p>Safari works to prevent advertisers and websites from using the unique combination of characteristics of your device to create a “fingerprint” to track you. These characteristics include the device and browser configuration, and fonts and plug-ins you have installed. To combat fingerprinting, Safari presents a simplified version of the system configuration so more devices look identical to trackers, making it harder to single yours out. This protection is on by default, so there are no extra steps for you to take.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Private Browsing</h3> <p>When you turn on Private Browsing, Safari won’t add the sites you visit to your history, remember your searches, or save any information from forms you fill out online. You can use content blockers to control what’s loaded onto your browser and to prevent anyone from attempting to track your activity on a website or across websites. Content blocker support is designed so that it can’t send developers information about what you’re looking at.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Search</h3> <p>With the Smart Search field in Safari, you can type website names, web addresses, and search queries all in one place. Safari minimizes the amount of data sent to third-party search engines — for example, it won’t share cookies or your precise location, which may happen if you search by other means. Safari also offers the option to set DuckDuckGo as your default search engine, allowing you to search the web without being tracked.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Extension controls</h3> <p>Browser extensions can help you do many things, like saving money on purchases or improving your grammar. However, they can also be used to track you, taking note of what you browse and even what you type. With Safari extension controls, you can grant extensions access to your information just for one day, just for this current website, or always.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> </div> </div> </article> <article class="section section-maps" data-component-list="ProgressiveImage" data-analytics-section-engagement="name:maps"> <div class="section-content"> <a id="maps"></a> <header class="article-header"> <div class="article-title-wrapper"> <h2 class="typography-subpage-article-headline article-title">Maps</h2> <figure class="article-figure" data-progressive-image role="img" aria-label="Maps app open on iPhone"></figure> </div> <div class="typography-subpage-article-intro article-intro"> <p>Personalized features are created using data on your device. And data that is sent from your device to the Maps service is associated with random identifiers so Apple doesn’t have a profile of your movements and searches.</p> </div> </header> <div class="article-body"> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Personalization</h3> <p>Many helpful features, like finding your parked car, are created using data on your device. This helps minimize the amount of data sent to Apple servers.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">End-to-end encryption</h3> <p>Maps keeps your personal data in sync across all your devices using end‑to-end encryption. Your Significant Locations and collections are encrypted end‑to‑end so Apple cannot read them. And when you share your ETA with other Maps users, Apple can’t see your location.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Random identifiers</h3> <p>There is no sign-in when you start using Maps. The data that Maps collects while you use the app — like search terms, navigation routing, and traffic information — is associated with random identifiers, not your Apple ID. These identifiers reset themselves as you use the app to ensure the best possible experience and to improve Maps. When you share ratings or photos with Maps, the information that you share is associated with your Apple ID.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Location fuzzing</h3> <p>Maps goes even further to obscure your location on Apple servers when you search using a process called “fuzzing.” Because your location can give away your identity, Maps converts the precise location where your search originated to a less-exact one after 24 hours. Apple doesn’t retain a history of what you’ve searched for or where you’ve been.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Maps extensions</h3> <p>Maps extensions that are used in ride-booking and reservation apps run in their own sandboxes and share permissions with their parent apps. For ride-booking apps, Maps shares only your starting point and destination with the extension. And when you reserve a table at a restaurant, the extension knows only the point of interest you tapped.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> </div> </div> </article> <article class="section section-photos" data-component-list="ProgressiveImage" data-analytics-section-engagement="name:photos"> <div class="section-content"> <a id="photos"></a> <header class="article-header"> <div class="article-title-wrapper"> <h2 class="typography-subpage-article-headline article-title">Photos</h2> <figure class="article-figure" data-progressive-image role="img" aria-label="Photos organized by location in the Photos app on iPad"></figure> </div> <div class="typography-subpage-article-intro article-intro"> <p>Face recognition and scene and object detection are done completely on your device rather than in the cloud. This allows Apple to provide you with these advanced features without accessing your photos. And apps can access your photos only with your permission.</p> <a href="/web/20230129175353/https://www.apple.com/ios/photos/pdf/Photos_Tech_Brief_Sept_2019.pdf" data-analytics-title="view the photos tech brief" class="icon-wrapper article-link"><span class="icon-copy">View the Photos tech brief (PDF)</span></a></div> </header> <div class="article-body"> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Lock Hidden and Recently Deleted albums in Photos</h3> <p>The Hidden and Recently Deleted albums in Photos are locked by default. You can unlock them using your device’s authentication method — Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> <div class="violator-container"> <span class="violator violator-reduced">New</span> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Memories and Sharing Suggestions</h3> <p>The Memories and Sharing Suggestions features in the Photos app use on-device intelligence to analyze your photos and organize them by faces, places, and more to help you find them easily. Because this all happens on your device, Apple can provide you with these advanced features without accessing your photos.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">iCloud Photos</h3> <p>If you choose to back up your photo library to iCloud Photos, Apple protects your photos on our servers with encryption. Photo data, like location or albums organized by places, can be shared between your devices with iCloud Photos enabled. And if you choose to turn off iCloud Photos, you’ll still be able to use on-device analysis.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Sharing controls</h3> <p>macOS, iOS, and iPadOS let you decide if you want to include the photo’s location, edit history, and depth data when you share a photo — whether you’re sharing it with a friend or with an app.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Limited Photos library access</h3> <p>Instead of giving a third-party app access to all your photos when it asks for permission to use them, you can now easily select which photos to share with the app.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Apps</h3> <p>If an app requests access to your photos, you can choose which images you’d like to share without granting access to your entire library. Or if an app wants to add a photo to your library, you can allow it to do so without accessing your photos. You can also choose to grant an app general access to your photos.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> </div> </div> </article> <article class="section section-imessage" data-component-list="ProgressiveImage" data-analytics-section-engagement="name:imessage"> <div class="section-content"> <a id="imessage"></a> <header class="article-header"> <div class="article-title-wrapper"> <h2 class="typography-subpage-article-headline article-title">Messages, FaceTime, and Mail</h2> <figure class="article-figure" data-progressive-image role="img" aria-label="iPhone lock screen displaying recent text messages and other notifications"></figure> </div> <div class="typography-subpage-article-intro article-intro"> <p>Your iMessages and FaceTime conversations are encrypted end-to-end, so they can’t be read while they’re sent between devices. Mail lets you go incognito.</p> </div> </header> <div class="article-body"> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Mail</h3> <p>Mail Privacy Protection helps protect your privacy from prying email senders. It hides your IP address so senders can’t create a profile with your other online activity or see where you are, and they can’t tell if you’ve opened their email.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">End-to-end encryption</h3> <p>End-to-end encryption protects your iMessage and FaceTime conversations across all your devices. With watchOS, iOS, and iPadOS, your messages are encrypted on your device so they can’t be accessed without your passcode. iMessage and FaceTime are designed so that there’s no way for Apple to read your messages when they’re in transit between devices. You can choose to automatically delete your messages from your device after 30 days or a year or keep them on your device indefinitely.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">FaceTime</h3> <p>Apple doesn’t store your FaceTime and Group FaceTime calls on our servers. And during transit, these calls are protected with end‑to‑end encryption. Anyone can now join you in one-on-one and Group FaceTime calls from their browsers instantly with the same privacy protections. No Apple device or login required.</p> <p>And starting with iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey, you can send friends and family a link to connect on FaceTime — even if they’re using Windows or Android.<sup class="footnote footnote-number"><a href="#footnote-1" aria-label="Footnote 1" data-modal-close>1</a></sup> And it’s still end-to-end encrypted, so your call is as private and secure as any other FaceTime call.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">iMessage apps</h3> <p>iMessage apps — which let you share stickers, songs, and more without leaving Messages — do not have access to participants’ actual contact information or conversations. iOS and iPadOS provide each app with a random identifier for each participant, which is reset when the app is uninstalled.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">iCloud Backup</h3> <p>iMessage and SMS messages are backed up on iCloud for your convenience, but you can turn iCloud Backup off whenever you want. And Apple never stores the content of FaceTime calls on any servers.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">SharePlay</h3> <p>SharePlay allows you to share experiences from Apple or third-party apps in FaceTime calls. The content that apps exchange over SharePlay is end-to-end encrypted, just like other FaceTime calls.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> </div> </div> </article> <article class="section section-siri" data-component-list="ProgressiveImage" data-analytics-section-engagement="name:siri"> <div class="section-content"> <a id="siri"></a> <header class="article-header"> <div class="article-title-wrapper"> <h2 class="typography-subpage-article-headline article-title">Siri</h2> <figure class="article-figure" data-progressive-image role="img" aria-label="Top-down view of HomePod device"></figure> </div> <div class="typography-subpage-article-intro article-intro"> <p>Siri is designed to do as much learning as possible offline, right on your device. Searches and requests are associated with a random identifier — a long string of letters and numbers — not your Apple ID.</p> </div> </header> <div class="article-body"> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">On-device suggestions</h3> <p>When you ask Siri to read or search for information on your device, such as in Messages and Notes, and when Siri provides suggestions, like through widgets and Siri Search, all your personal information is kept on your device rather than being sent to Apple servers. Siri Suggestions in the QuickType keyboard are made possible by an Apple-developed neural network language process that also runs directly on your device.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Random identifiers</h3> <p>Although Apple attempts to do as much as possible on your device, when you use certain features — like making a voice request to Siri or searching in Spotlight or Safari — real-time input is needed from Apple servers. When we do send information to a server, we protect your privacy by using random identifiers, not your Apple ID. Information like your location may be sent to Apple to improve the accuracy of responses, and we allow you to disable Location Services at any time.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">On-device processing</h3> <p>The audio of your requests is now processed entirely on your device unless you choose to share it with Apple. The Apple Neural Engine enables speech recognition models with the same high quality as server-based speech recognition.<sup class="footnote footnote-number"><a href="#footnote-2" aria-label="Footnote 2" data-modal-close>2</a></sup></p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Siri and Dictation</h3> <p>The longer you use Siri and Dictation, the better they understand you and improve. To help Siri and Dictation recognize your pronunciation and provide better responses, certain information such as names of your contacts or music, books, and podcasts you enjoy is sent to Apple servers using encrypted protocols. Siri and Dictation do not associate this information with your Apple ID, but rather with a random, device-generated identifier. You can reset that identifier at any time by turning Siri and Dictation off and back on, effectively restarting your relationship with them. When you turn Siri and Dictation off, your Siri data associated with the Siri identifier is deleted. The learning process starts over when you turn Siri back on. On-device dictation helps protect your privacy further by performing all processing completely offline.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Improving Siri and Dictation</h3> <p>By default, Apple does not retain audio recordings of Siri and Dictation interactions. Computer-generated transcripts are used to improve Siri and Dictation. You can opt in to help Siri improve by allowing Apple to store and review audio of your Siri and Dictation interactions, and you can opt out at any time. These audio samples are associated with a random identifier instead of your Apple ID. In addition, you can delete all the Siri and Dictation requests, including audio recordings and computer-generated transcripts, associated with the random identifier from Apple’s servers at any time. Note that requests more than six months old and the small sample of requests that have been reviewed may not be deleted, as they are no longer associated with the random identifier.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230129175353/https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210657" data-analytics-title="learn more about ask siri and privacy" aria-label="Learn more about Ask Siri and Privacy" class="icon-wrapper article-link" data-analytics-exit-link><span class="icon-copy">Learn more about Ask Siri and Privacy</span><span class="icon icon-after more"></span></a> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Suggestions in Spotlight and Safari</h3> <p>When you use Safari or Spotlight in iOS, iPadOS, or macOS, your searches are sent to Apple servers along with contextual information like your location or actions taken in the search session to provide you with the most relevant suggestions. This information is associated with a random identifier, not your Apple ID, so that searches and locations are not connected to you personally. For suggestions in Spotlight and Safari, a new random identifier is generated every 15 minutes, and your precise location is never shared with the server. Instead, an approximate location from your device is sent using location fuzzing. You can choose to disable suggestions in Spotlight and Safari. If you choose to disable location-based suggestions, Apple will still use your IP address to determine a general location to make suggestions more relevant.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230129175353/https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210658" data-analytics-title="learn more about siri suggestions and privacy" aria-label="Learn more about Siri Suggestions and Privacy" class="icon-wrapper article-link" data-analytics-exit-link><span class="icon-copy">Learn more about Siri Suggestions and Privacy</span><span class="icon icon-after more"></span></a> </div> </section> </div> </div> </article> <article class="section section-wallet" data-component-list="ProgressiveImage" data-analytics-section-engagement="name:wallet"> <div class="section-content"> <a id="wallet"></a> <header class="article-header"> <div class="article-title-wrapper"> <h2 class="typography-subpage-article-headline article-title">Wallet</h2> <figure class="article-figure" data-progressive-image role="img" aria-label="Cards in Wallet shown on iPhone."></figure> </div> <div class="typography-subpage-article-intro article-intro"> <p>Wallet helps keep your ID cards, keys, credit and debit cards, transit cards, boarding passes, tickets, and more secure.</p> </div> </header> <div class="article-body"> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Adding cards</h3> <p>When you add a credit, debit, prepaid, or transit card (where available) to Apple Pay, information that you enter on your device is encrypted and sent to Apple servers. Apple decrypts the data, determines your card’s payment network, and reencrypts the data with a key that only your payment network (or any providers authorized by your card issuer for provisioning and token services) can unlock. </p> <p>After your card is approved, your bank, your bank’s authorized service provider, or your card issuer creates a device-specific Device Account Number, encrypts it, and sends it along with other data to Apple. The Device Account Number can’t be decrypted by Apple and is stored in the Secure Element on your device.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Keys and ID</h3> <p>Corporate passes and home, hotel, and car keys can all be added to one convenient location in Wallet. You can add your driver’s license or state ID to Wallet on your iPhone and a paired Apple Watch and present it securely at TSA checkpoints. Your passes, keys, and ID are protected and stored in the Secure Element on your device, just like your cards.<sup class="footnote footnote-number"><a href="#footnote-3" aria-label="Footnote 3" data-modal-close>3</a></sup></p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> </div> </div> </article> <article class="section section-apple-pay" data-component-list="ProgressiveImage" data-analytics-section-engagement="name:apple pay"> <div class="section-content"> <a id="apple-pay"></a> <header class="article-header"> <div class="article-title-wrapper"> <h2 class="typography-subpage-article-headline article-title">Apple Pay</h2> <figure class="article-figure" data-progressive-image role="img" aria-label="Apple Pay screen with American Express card on iPhone"></figure> </div> <div class="typography-subpage-article-intro article-intro"> <p>Apple doesn’t know what you buy, including where you bought it or for how much, when you pay with a credit or debit card or transfer money with Apple Cash.</p> </div> </header> <div class="article-body"> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Unique Device Account Number</h3> <p>When you add a credit, debit, or prepaid card to Apple Pay through the Wallet app, your device securely sends your card information, along with other information about your account and device, to your card issuer. Your actual card numbers are never stored on the device or on Apple servers. Instead, a unique Device Account Number is created, which is encrypted in a way that Apple can’t decrypt, and stored in the Secure Element on your device. The Device Account Number in the Secure Element is walled off from your operating system and is not stored on Apple Pay servers or backed up to iCloud. Apple doesn’t track what you’re buying when you use Apple Pay, so we can’t build a purchase history to serve you ads.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230129175353/https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203027" data-analytics-title="learn more about apple pay security and privacy" aria-label="Learn more about Apple Pay Security and Privacy" class="icon-wrapper article-link" data-analytics-exit-link><span class="icon-copy">Learn more about Apple Pay Security and Privacy</span><span class="icon icon-after more"></span></a> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">In-store merchant transactions</h3> <p>In stores, payments are processed by using the Device Account Number and a transaction-specific, dynamic security code. Neither Apple nor your device shares actual credit or debit card numbers with merchants. If you use a rewards card, Apple requires any personally identifiable information — like your email address or phone number — to be encrypted when it’s sent. No rewards information is ever shared without your permission.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">In-app and website purchases</h3> <p>When you make payments in an app or on a website, Apple receives your encrypted transaction information and reencrypts it with a developer-specific key before it’s sent to the developer. When you make payments on a Mac with Touch ID or the Touch Bar, the payment is processed in the Secure Element, a certified chip designed to store your payment information safely. On other Mac computers, your Mac and any iOS or iPadOS device signed in to the same iCloud account communicate over an encrypted channel either locally or via Apple servers. Apple requires all apps and websites using Apple Pay to have a privacy policy you can view, so you know how your data is being used.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Apple Cash</h3> <p>In order to protect your privacy when sending and receiving money using Apple Cash, Apple created Apple Payments Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, to protect your privacy by storing and processing information separately from the rest of Apple.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> </div> </div> </article> <article class="section section-apple-card" data-component-list="ProgressiveImage" data-analytics-section-engagement="name:apple card"> <div class="section-content"> <a id="apple-card"></a> <header class="article-header"> <div class="article-title-wrapper"> <h2 class="typography-subpage-article-headline article-title">Apple Card</h2> <figure class="article-figure" data-progressive-image role="img" aria-label="Apple Card screen on iPhone"></figure> </div> <div class="typography-subpage-article-intro article-intro"> <p>The unique security and privacy architecture created for Apple Card prevents Apple from knowing where you shopped, what you bought, or how much you paid.</p> </div> </header> <div class="article-body"> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">On-device transaction history</h3> <p>Apple Card provides useful features like your transaction history and spending summaries right in the Wallet app on your iPhone using on-device intelligence. So that data doesn’t need to be sent to Apple servers.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Issuing bank</h3> <p>The issuing bank for Apple Card, Goldman Sachs, will never sell your data to third parties for marketing or advertising.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> </div> </div> </article> <article class="section section-health" data-component-list="ProgressiveImage" data-analytics-section-engagement="name:health"> <div class="section-content"> <a id="health"></a> <header class="article-header"> <div class="article-title-wrapper"> <h2 class="typography-subpage-article-headline article-title">Health</h2> <figure class="article-figure" data-progressive-image role="img" aria-label="Cycle Tracking app on Apple Watch"></figure> </div> <div class="typography-subpage-article-intro article-intro"> <p>Apple designs health-related products to allow privacy for you and to ensure that even when you choose to share information, you can do so with privacy and security in mind. You have control over which information is placed in the Health app and which apps can access your data through it.</p> </div> </header> <div class="article-body"> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Encrypted data</h3> <p>You decide what information is placed in the Health app as well as who can access your data. When your phone is locked with a passcode, Touch ID, or Face ID, all your health and fitness data in the Health app — other than your Medical ID — is encrypted. Any Health data backed up to iCloud is encrypted both in transit and on our servers. And if you use a recent version of watchOS and iOS and turn on two-factor authentication and a passcode, your health and activity data will be backed up in a way that Apple can’t read.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Activity sharing and deletion</h3> <p>You can choose to share your Activity data from your Apple Watch with other users. If you later decide to stop sharing, then the other user’s iPhone will delete historical data stored in the Fitness app. You also have the ability to temporarily hide your activity.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Health sharing</h3> <p>Share your health data with people important to you or those who are caring for you. Choose which data and trends to share, including heart health, activity, labs, vitals, Medical ID, cycle tracking, and more.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">HealthKit</h3> <p>HealthKit allows developers to create health and fitness apps that can share data with the Health app or with each other. As a user, you have control over which elements of your HealthKit information are shared with which apps. Apple requires every app in the App Store to provide a privacy policy for you to review, including apps that work with HealthKit. Apps that work with HealthKit are prohibited from using or disclosing HealthKit data to third parties for advertising or other data mining purposes, and apps can only share data for the purpose of improving your health, fitness, or health research with your permission. When you choose to share that data with trusted apps, it goes directly from HealthKit to the third-party app and does not traverse Apple’s network.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">ResearchKit and CareKit</h3> <p>ResearchKit and CareKit are open source software frameworks that take advantage of the capabilities of iPhone. ResearchKit enables developers to create apps that let medical researchers gather robust and meaningful data for studies. And CareKit is a platform for developers to create apps that help individuals take a more active role in their own well-being.</p> <p>With ResearchKit, you choose which studies you want to join, and you control the information you provide to individual research apps. Apps using ResearchKit or CareKit can pull data from the Health app only with your consent. Any apps built using ResearchKit for health-related human subject research must obtain consent from the participants and must provide information about confidentiality rights and the sharing and handling of data.</p> <p>These apps must also be approved by an independent ethics review board before the study can begin. For certain ResearchKit studies, Apple may be listed as a researcher, receiving data from participants who consent to share their data with researchers, so we can participate with the larger research community in exploring how our technology could improve the way people manage their health. This data is received in a way that does not directly identify the participants to Apple.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> <a href="/web/20230129175353/https://www.apple.com/researchkit/" data-analytics-title="learn more about researchkit and carekit" aria-label="Learn more about ResearchKit and CareKit" class="icon-wrapper article-link"><span class="icon-copy">Learn more about ResearchKit and CareKit</span><span class="icon icon-after more"></span></a> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Apple Research app</h3> <p>Apple’s research platform makes it simple to bring together researchers with people eager to help advance medical discovery. You can sign up for a study (or studies) right from your iPhone. If you meet the criteria for a given study, then with your consent you can join. Any data collected through the Apple Research app will be encrypted if you have a passcode set on your device. Once shared, the data is stored securely within Apple in a system designed to meet the technical safeguard requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Apple will not have access to any contact information or other data that directly identifies you through the Research app. And you can withdraw from any study at any time, ending any future data collection.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Improve Health & Activity and Improve Wheelchair Mode</h3> <p>Improve Health & Activity and Improve Wheelchair Mode send data from iPhone and Apple Watch to Apple so we can increase the effectiveness of our health and fitness features. This includes data that is shown in the Health, Activity, and Fitness apps, movement measurements, which other fitness apps you have installed, your approximate location, and how long you have been using Apple Watch. The data is not used for any other purpose and does not include personally identifiable information.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Exposure Notifications</h3> <p>Protecting your privacy is at the forefront of COVID-19 notification design. Exposure Notifications use random Bluetooth identifiers that rotate every 10–20 minutes to help prevent tracking. You must choose to turn on the technology, and you can turn it off at any time. The system does not collect your device location, and people who report themselves as positive are not identified by the system to other users or to Apple.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> </div> </div> </article> <article class="section section-location" data-component-list="ProgressiveImage" data-analytics-section-engagement="name:location"> <div class="section-content"> <a id="location"></a> <header class="article-header"> <div class="article-title-wrapper"> <h2 class="typography-subpage-article-headline article-title">Location Services</h2> <figure class="article-figure" data-progressive-image role="img" aria-label="Calendar app on iPhone displaying a location access prompt"></figure> </div> <div class="typography-subpage-article-intro article-intro"> <p>Location Services privacy controls are a powerful way to manage which apps have access to your location.</p> <a href="/web/20230129175353/https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Location_Services_White_Paper_Nov_2019.pdf" data-analytics-title="view the location services privacy white paper" class="icon-wrapper article-link"><span class="icon-copy">View the Location Services Privacy white paper (PDF)</span></a></div> </header> <div class="article-body"> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">App location permissions</h3> <p>Location permissions help you control the location data that you pass to apps using fine-grained controls. You can choose to grant an app access to your location once or anytime you use it.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Approximate location</h3> <p>Starting with iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and watchOS 7, you can choose whether apps can see your approximate location — within an area of about 10 square miles — rather than your exact location. So you can use apps to find nearby restaurants or check the local weather without providing more information than you need to.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Background tracking notifications</h3> <p>Receive notifications when an app is using your location in the background, so you can decide whether to update your permission. Background tracking notifications now include a map that shows you the places where an app used your location in the background.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Wi-Fi and Bluetooth location privacy enhancements</h3> <p>Starting in iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, API changes limit the kinds of apps that can see the names of Wi-Fi networks you connect to, which makes it harder for apps to determine your location without your consent. To protect you against apps using Bluetooth to determine your location without your consent, iOS and iPadOS include controls so that an app must ask before accessing Bluetooth for any other purpose than playing audio. And Bluetooth settings allow you to change whether an app has access at any time.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Location controls for shared photos</h3> <p>macOS, iOS, and iPadOS let you decide if you want to include the location when you share a photo, whether you’re sharing it with a friend or with an app.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> </div> </div> </article> <article class="section section-sign-in" data-component-list="ProgressiveImage" data-analytics-section-engagement="name:sign in"> <div class="section-content"> <a id="sign-in"></a> <header class="article-header"> <div class="article-title-wrapper"> <h2 class="typography-subpage-article-headline article-title">Sign in with Apple</h2> <figure class="article-figure" data-progressive-image role="img" aria-label="Website featuring Sign in with Apple option on iPad"></figure> </div> <div class="typography-subpage-article-intro article-intro"> <p>Sign in to apps and websites quickly and easily without having your activity tracked or profiled by Apple.</p> <a href="/web/20230129175353/https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Sign_in_with_Apple_White_Paper_Nov_2019.pdf" data-analytics-title="view the sign in with apple tech brief" class="icon-wrapper article-link"><span class="icon-copy">View the Sign in with Apple tech brief (PDF)</span></a></div> </header> <div class="article-body"> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Sign in using your Apple ID</h3> <p>Sign in with Apple lets you sign in to apps and websites using the Apple ID you already have. When you use Sign in with Apple, the most information websites and apps can ask for is your name and email address. And Apple won’t track or profile you when you use Sign in with Apple.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Hide your email</h3> <p>If you don’t want to share your email address with a particular app or website, you can choose to hide it. You can also choose to have Apple create a unique email address that forwards to your real address.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Two-factor authentication</h3> <p>Sign in with Apple requires your Apple ID to be protected with two-factor authentication, so that access to accounts in your favorite apps is more secure.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Upgrade to Sign in with Apple</h3> <p>Developers can now offer you the option to upgrade existing app accounts using Sign in with Apple. You can quickly and easily sign in to your accounts using Face ID or Touch ID and take advantage of Apple’s two-factor authentication for improved privacy and security, without having to set up a new account.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> </div> </div> </article> <article class="section section-news" data-component-list="ProgressiveImage" data-analytics-section-engagement="name:news"> <div class="section-content"> <a id="news"></a> <header class="article-header"> <div class="article-title-wrapper"> <h2 class="typography-subpage-article-headline article-title">News and Entertainment</h2> <figure class="article-figure" data-progressive-image role="img" aria-label="Apple Music on Apple Watch, Apple Arcade on iPad, and Apple News on iPhone"></figure> </div> <div class="typography-subpage-article-intro article-intro"> <p>Our news and entertainment services use information about what you read, listen to, and watch to help personalize your experience. But Apple doesn’t build a comprehensive profile of your activity across services.</p> </div> </header> <div class="article-body"> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Random identifier in Apple News</h3> <p>The more news articles you read, the more personalized the Apple News app becomes. Information Apple collects about articles you read is used to improve Apple News. This information is linked to an Apple News–specific identifier and is not linked to other services. You can reset your Apple News identifier at any time by clearing your history in Saved Stories. Recommendations for channels, topics, and content are created on your device. By default, Apple News uses iCloud to sync the channels and topics you follow, your reading history, and your reading preferences across your devices.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">On-device suggestions in Apple News</h3> <p>Siri suggests stories, channels, and topics you may like based on on-device information pulled from the apps you use and the websites you visit in Safari. And when you search in Apple News, your query is combined with information about recently used and popular apps on your device to provide you with relevant search results.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Apple News subscriptions</h3> <p>If you buy a third-party subscription in Apple News, you can choose whether to share your personal information with the publisher. If you have enabled notifications for an Apple News channel, Apple stores that information to notify you about breaking events, including from your subscription publications.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230129175353/https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205249" data-analytics-title="learn more about apple news and privacy" aria-label="Learn more about Apple News and Privacy" class="icon-wrapper article-link" data-analytics-exit-link><span class="icon-copy">Learn more about Apple News and Privacy</span><span class="icon icon-after more"></span></a> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Apple Music</h3> <p>Apple Music doesn’t contain advertisements from other companies. To help personalized features like Listen Now, Autoplay, personal mixes, and new release notifications reflect your musical tastes, Apple collects some information about your activity when you play or browse music. This is detailed during setup in “About Apple Music & Privacy.” Apple Music is obligated to share some aggregated data with partners, like record labels, for purposes such as royalty payments to artists, but it only does so with industry‑leading privacy protections.</p> <p>Apple Music does not share data with partners using any user or device identifiers. And if you don’t want to keep your music collection on our servers, you can opt out of iCloud Music Library. iOS and iPadOS put you in control of which apps can access your Music account and associated details. The opt‑in Apple Music Friends feature lets you share your favorite music — and decide which friends can see the music in your profile. Apple Music only has access to the contacts you choose to add to Apple Music Friends specifically, not your entire contact list.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230129175353/https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204881" data-analytics-title="learn more about apple music and privacy" aria-label="Learn more about Apple Music and Privacy" class="icon-wrapper article-link" data-analytics-exit-link><span class="icon-copy">Learn more about Apple Music and Privacy</span><span class="icon icon-after more"></span></a> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Apple TV</h3> <p>To offer personalized recommendations and improve your Apple TV experience, Apple collects information about your purchases, downloads, and activity in the Apple TV app, including what you watch on the Apple TV app, connected apps, and your location. You can choose to share what you watch in connected apps to bring all your content together, and you have control over the viewing history used by Apple to provide you with personalized recommendations. You can delete the viewing history Apple holds from connected apps entirely, or choose to delete it app by app.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230129175353/https://support.apple.com/kb/HT208511" data-analytics-title="learn more about the apple tv app and privacy" aria-label="Learn more about the Apple TV app and Privacy" class="icon-wrapper article-link" data-analytics-exit-link><span class="icon-copy">Learn more about the Apple TV app and Privacy</span><span class="icon icon-after more"></span></a> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Apple Arcade</h3> <p>Apple Arcade games do not collect any personal data about you or track any information about how you play without your permission. Games in Apple Arcade contain no in-game advertising and no third‑party tracking.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230129175353/https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210660" data-analytics-title="learn more about apple arcade and privacy" aria-label="Learn more about Apple Arcade and Privacy" class="icon-wrapper article-link" data-analytics-exit-link><span class="icon-copy">Learn more about Apple Arcade and Privacy</span><span class="icon icon-after more"></span></a> </div> </section> </div> </div> </article> <article class="section section-app-store" data-component-list="ProgressiveImage" data-analytics-section-engagement="name:app store"> <div class="section-content"> <a id="app-store"></a> <header class="article-header"> <div class="article-title-wrapper"> <h2 class="typography-subpage-article-headline article-title">App Store</h2> <figure class="article-figure" data-progressive-image role="img" aria-label="Today view of App Store on iPad"></figure> </div> <div class="typography-subpage-article-intro article-intro"> <p>Every app in the App Store is required to follow strict guidelines on protecting your privacy and to provide a self-reported summary of how it uses your data. And apps must ask for your permission before accessing things like your photos or location.</p> </div> </header> <div class="article-body"> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">App guidelines</h3> <p>On the App Store, Apple requires app developers to adhere to specific guidelines designed to protect user privacy and security. Apple also requires them to provide a privacy policy that you can review. When Apple becomes aware of an app that violates our guidelines, the developer must address the issue or the app will be removed from the App Store. Apps go through a review process before becoming available on the App Store.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> <a href="/web/20230129175353/https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Building_a_Trusted_Ecosystem_for_Millions_of_Apps.pdf" data-analytics-title="learn more about the app review process" class="icon-wrapper article-link"><span class="icon-copy">Learn more about the app review process (PDF)</span><span class="icon icon-after more"></span></a> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Privacy Nutrition Labels</h3> <p>Developers are required to self‑report how they are using your data –– such as usage data, contact information, or location –– and whether that data is used to track you. You can view each self-reported Privacy Nutrition Label on the app’s product page on the App Store at any time, including before you choose to download. This is part of ongoing work to increase transparency and control over your data, and Apple will continue to update this feature and work with developers to ensure that users can make informed choices.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230129175353/https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211970" data-analytics-title="learn more about privacy labels on the app store" aria-label="Learn more about privacy labels on the App Store" class="icon-wrapper article-link" data-analytics-exit-link><span class="icon-copy">Learn more about privacy labels on the App Store</span><span class="icon icon-after more"></span></a> <a href="/web/20230129175353/https://www.apple.com/privacy/labels/" data-analytics-title="see how apps from apple handle your data" aria-label="see how apps from Apple handle your data" class="icon-wrapper article-link"><span class="icon-copy">See how apps from Apple handle your data</span><span class="icon icon-after more"></span></a> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">App permissions</h3> <p>Once an app is installed on your device, you are prompted for permission the first time it tries to access information such as your location or photos. You can make changes to the permissions you’ve granted. And iOS 11 or later and iPadOS give you the control to provide your location to any app only while you’re using it. Apple also makes sure that there are certain types of data on your device that apps simply can’t access, and that there is no way for an app to ask for complete access to all your data.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">App Clips</h3> <p>When you use an App Clip, developers can only ask for a limited set of data. When an App Clip requires access to your location, camera, or other sensitive data, it will require the same consent as a full app. You can also choose to grant permission to all App Clips. App Clips aren’t allowed to ask your permission to track you across other companies’ apps and websites –– only full apps can do that.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">App tracking</h3> <p>An app tracking section in Settings lets you easily see which of your apps have been given permission to track you, so you can change your preferences and disable apps from asking in the future. iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5 or later require developers to get your permission before tracking your activity across other companies’ apps and websites for ads or data brokers.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> </div> </div> </article> <article class="section section-icloud" data-component-list="ProgressiveImage" data-analytics-section-engagement="name:icloud"> <div class="section-content"> <a id="icloud"></a> <header class="article-header"> <div class="article-title-wrapper"> <h2 class="typography-subpage-article-headline article-title">iCloud</h2> <figure class="article-figure" data-progressive-image role="img" aria-label="MacBook Air displaying iCloud Drive window over desktop"></figure> </div> <div class="typography-subpage-article-intro article-intro"> <p>What you store in iCloud is protected with industry‑leading encryption, privacy, and security. Developers do not have access to your Apple ID.</p> </div> </header> <div class="article-body"> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Data encryption</h3> <p>iCloud secures your information — like photos, contacts, and notes — by encrypting it when it’s in transit, storing it in an encrypted format, and safeguarding your encryption keys in Apple data centers. Both Apple and third‑party data centers may be used to store and process your data. When processing data stored in a third‑party data center, encryption keys are accessed only by Apple software running on secure servers, and only while conducting the necessary processing. For additional security, you can enable Advanced Data Protection, which uses end‑to‑end encryption to ensure that iCloud data in many categories can only be decrypted on your trusted devices, protecting your information even in the case of a data breach in the cloud.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230129175353/https://support.apple.com/kb/HT202303" data-analytics-title="learn more about icloud data encryption" aria-label="Learn more about iCloud data encryption" class="icon-wrapper article-link" data-analytics-exit-link><span class="icon-copy">Learn more about iCloud data encryption</span><span class="icon icon-after more"></span></a> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Two-factor authentication</h3> <p>Two-factor authentication is an extra layer of security for your Apple ID. It’s designed to help ensure that you’re the only person who can access your account, even if someone else knows your password. It’s easy to set up and easy to use.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230129175353/https://support.apple.com/kb/HT204915" data-analytics-title="learn more about two-factor authentication" aria-label="Learn more about two-factor authentication" class="icon-wrapper article-link" data-analytics-exit-link><span class="icon-copy">Learn more about two‑factor authentication</span><span class="icon icon-after more"></span></a> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">iCloud sharing</h3> <p>With iCloud sharing, the identities of participants are not made available to anyone who has not been invited to and accepted a private share. The names of your shared files and the first and last name associated with your Apple ID are available to anyone who has access to the sharing link, including Apple. In iOS 11 or later, iPadOS, and macOS High Sierra or later, end‑to‑end encryption in iCloud syncs certain types of personal data, such as your Health data, across all your devices in such a way that Apple cannot read or access it.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">CloudKit</h3> <p>CloudKit is a way for third-party developers to use iCloud storage in their own apps. CloudKit helps keep your preferences, settings, and app data up to date across your devices. Developers use CloudKit to make it easier for you to use their apps because you don’t have to sign in separately. By default, developers don’t have access to your Apple ID, just a unique identifier. If you give your permission, developers can use your email to let others find you in their app. You’re always in control of these permissions and can turn them on or off at any time. Your data associated with CloudKit isn’t shared with developers unless you choose to share or post publicly.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Account Recovery Contacts</h3> <p>Choose one or more people you trust to become an Account Recovery Contact to help you reset your password and regain access to your account. Apple does not know who your trusted contacts are, only whether you have any.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Digital Legacy program</h3> <p>The Digital Legacy program lets you designate people as Legacy Contacts so they can access your account and personal information in the event of your death. Apple does not know who your Legacy Contacts are, only whether you have any.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> </div> </div> </article> <article class="section section-icloud-plus" data-component-list="ProgressiveImage" data-analytics-section-engagement="name:icloud plus"> <div class="section-content"> <a id="icloud-plus"></a> <header class="article-header"> <div class="article-title-wrapper"> <h2 class="typography-subpage-article-headline article-title">iCloud+</h2> <figure class="article-figure" data-progressive-image role="img" aria-label="Hide My Email set up window shown in Safari browser on iPad"></figure> </div> <div class="typography-subpage-article-intro article-intro"> <p>iCloud+ includes great new features to help protect your privacy when browsing the internet and using email.</p> </div> </header> <div class="article-body"> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Hide My Email</h3> <p>Hide My Email allows you to create unique, random email addresses that forward to your personal inbox so you can send and receive email without having to share your real email address.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">iCloud Private Relay</h3> <p>iCloud Private Relay is an internet privacy service that uses an innovative multihop architecture in which users’ requests are sent through two separate internet relays operated by different entities. This way, no single party — including Apple — can view or collect the details of users’ browsing activity.<sup class="footnote footnote-number"><a href="#footnote-4" aria-label="Footnote 4" data-modal-close>4</a></sup></p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> <a href="/web/20230129175353/https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/iCloud_Private_Relay_Overview_Dec2021.PDF" data-analytics-title="Learn how iCloud Private Relay protects users’ privacy on the internet" class="icon-wrapper article-link"><span class="icon-copy">Learn how iCloud Private Relay protects users’ privacy on the internet (PDF)</span></a> </div> </section> </div> </div> </article> <article class="section section-car-play" data-component-list="ProgressiveImage" data-analytics-section-engagement="name:carplay"> <div class="section-content"> <a id="car-play"></a> <header class="article-header"> <div class="article-title-wrapper"> <h2 class="typography-subpage-article-headline article-title">CarPlay</h2> <figure class="article-figure" data-progressive-image role="img" aria-label="Vehicle dashboard with Apple Maps navigation displayed on-screen via CarPlay "></figure> </div> <div class="typography-subpage-article-intro article-intro"> <p>All the rigorous privacy measures built into your iPhone and apps carry over to CarPlay. And iOS privacy updates apply to CarPlay, too.</p> </div> </header> <div class="article-body"> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Data minimization</h3> <p>When you use CarPlay, every app you see is powered from your iPhone rather than by the car. This means that Apple gives only limited metadata to the car to make the experience seamless, and only when that metadata is essential to delivering the service. For example, song information may be shared to display the current song you’re listening to, and the contact or call time for your current call may be displayed on an instrument cluster or head‑up display to help you see helpful information.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Third-party apps</h3> <p>Third-party audio, messaging, voice dialing, and navigation apps work in CarPlay, as well as apps that automakers create for their own cars. Because they run on your iPhone, all the protections that apply to third-party apps in iOS apply to CarPlay, too. And Apple always requires third-party apps to provide a privacy policy for you to review.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> </div> </div> </article> <article class="section section-home" data-component-list="ProgressiveImage" data-analytics-section-engagement="name:home"> <div class="section-content"> <a id="home"></a> <header class="article-header"> <div class="article-title-wrapper"> <h2 class="typography-subpage-article-headline article-title">Home</h2> <figure class="article-figure" data-progressive-image role="img" aria-label="Home app on iPhone displaying front-door camera view"></figure> </div> <div class="typography-subpage-article-intro article-intro"> <p>The Home app uses encryption to protect the information you transmit to HomePod and all your HomeKit accessories. Apps that use HomeKit are subject to strong terms in our developer guidelines.</p> </div> </header> <div class="article-body"> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Encryption</h3> <p>Data related to your home is encrypted and stored in the iCloud Keychain of your device. It’s also encrypted in transit between your Apple device and the devices you’re controlling in your home, even when you control your accessories from a remote location. Recordings from security cameras that use HomeKit Secure Video are analyzed privately on your Apple devices at home and then sent securely to iCloud through end-to-end encryption.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Location protections</h3> <p>When apps perform automatic actions based on your location, such as turning on house lights, these actions are initiated by HomeKit on your device, which makes your location invisible to the app. You can also disable use of your location at any time.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">App protections</h3> <p>Apps that use HomeKit are restricted by our developer guidelines to using data solely for home configuration or automation services.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Random identifiers</h3> <p>Siri requests you make from your HomeKit devices are associated with a random identifier, not your Apple ID, so your identity is protected.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">HomeKit Secure Video</h3> <p>In iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 or later, HomeKit Secure Video ensures that activity detected by your security cameras is analyzed and encrypted by your Apple devices at home before being securely stored in iCloud.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">HomeKit-enabled routers</h3> <p>HomeKit-enabled routers let you see and manage your other accessories’ internet traffic, both within your home and through the internet.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> </div> </div> </article> <article class="section section-education article-secondary" data-component-list="ProgressiveImage" data-analytics-section-engagement="name:education"> <div class="section-content"> <a id="education"></a> <header class="article-header"> <div class="article-title-wrapper"> <h2 class="typography-subpage-article-headline article-title">Education and Children’s Privacy</h2> <figure class="article-figure" data-progressive-image role="img" aria-label="iPad displaying multiple students in the Classroom app"></figure> </div> <div class="typography-subpage-article-intro article-intro"> <p>Features like Screen Time, Family Sharing, and Apple-designed education apps keep parents and teachers in control of children’s information.</p> </div> </header> <div class="article-body"> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Screen Time</h3> <p>You can use Screen Time to better understand and make choices about how much time your children spend using apps and websites. Activity Reports give you a detailed look at all their app usage, notifications, and device pickups — and only you, your children, and those you choose to share it with can view this information. You can also set the amount of time your kids can spend each day on specific apps and websites.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230129175353/https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208982" data-analytics-title="learn more about screen time" aria-label="Learn more about Screen Time" class="icon-wrapper article-link" data-analytics-exit-link><span class="icon-copy">Learn more about Screen Time</span><span class="icon icon-after more"></span></a> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Parental controls</h3> <p>Using Screen Time, you can set parental controls and restrictions on your children’s Apple devices to limit the websites they visit, the types of movies and TV shows they watch, their access to FaceTime and Camera, and even their ability to download third-party apps. You can also place restrictions on privacy settings, such as for Location Services and Photos, so that your children cannot change those settings on their own.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Family Sharing</h3> <p>With Family Sharing, children can have their own Apple IDs with the consent of the family organizer. Apple has developed tools such as Ask to Buy, which allows parents to approve app downloads or in‑app purchases to give them control over their children’s purchases using their Apple ID. Apple requires a parent or guardian’s consent to set up an Apple ID for their child and helps give adults visibility into their child’s activity and content.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> <a href="/web/20230129175353/https://www.apple.com/family-sharing/" data-analytics-title="learn more about family sharing" aria-label="Learn more about Family Sharing" class="icon-wrapper article-link"><span class="icon-copy">Learn more about Family Sharing</span><span class="icon icon-after more"></span></a> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Education apps</h3> <p>Apple doesn’t sell student information, and we don’t share it with third parties to use for marketing or advertising. Apple doesn’t collect, use, or disclose student information from Apple School Manager, the Schoolwork app, the Classroom app, iTunes U, or Managed Apple IDs other than to provide relevant educational services. And Apple does not track students or build profiles based on their email or web browsing. Parents can decide if they want their child to participate, and students have access to their own data on their devices.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230129175353/https://support.apple.com/HT208525" data-analytics-title="learn more about privacy and security in education" aria-label="Learn more about Privacy and Security in Education" class="icon-wrapper article-link" data-analytics-exit-link><span class="icon-copy">Learn more about Privacy and Security in Education</span><span class="icon icon-after more"></span></a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230129175353/https://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/validate-bsi-issued-certificates/client-directory-profile/APPLE_-0047421507-000" data-analytics-title="view iso certifications" class="icon-wrapper article-link" data-analytics-exit-link rel="nofollow"><span class="icon-copy">View ISO certifications</span><span class="icon icon-after icon-external"></span></a> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Student Privacy Pledge</h3> <p>To provide the best privacy protections for students and teachers, all relevant agreements and processes are aligned with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 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Apple does not maintain a comprehensive user data profile of your activity across all our products and services to serve you targeted advertising.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">On-device intelligence</h3> <p>Apple uses machine learning to enhance your experience — and your privacy — by using on-device processing so other people don’t see your data. We’ve used it for on-device image and scene recognition in Photos, predictive text in keyboards, and more. For example, the A13 Bionic and later chips and the Neural Engine in iPhone can recognize patterns, make predictions, and learn from experience, similar to the way you do. So your device can create personalized experiences without having to analyze personal information on Apple servers. Developers can use our frameworks, such as Create ML and Core ML, to create powerful new app experiences that don’t require your data to leave your device. That means apps can analyze user sentiment, classify scenes, translate text, recognize handwriting, predict text, tag music, and more without putting your privacy at risk.</p> <div class="article-links-wrapper wrapper-focus"> </div> </section> <section class="article-item wrapper-focus"> <h3 class="typography-subpage-article-body-subhead article-body-subhead">Transparency and control</h3> <p>When Apple does collect personal data, we’re clear and transparent about it. We make sure you know how your personal information is being used, and how to opt out anytime you like. Data and privacy information screens help you understand how Apple will use your personal information before you sign in or start using new features. We also provide a set of dedicated privacy management tools on our Data and Privacy page. 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We have also pioneered using Differential Privacy to understand patterns of behavior while protecting an individual user’s privacy. If you choose to send Apple analytics about your device usage, the collected information does not identify you personally. When it’s collected, personal data is either not logged at all, removed from reports before they’re sent to Apple, or protected by techniques such as Differential Privacy. 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Software protections work to help keep the operating system and third-party apps safe. Services provide a mechanism for secure and timely software updates; power a safer app ecosystem, secure communications, and payments; and provide a safer experience on the web. 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