What makes Sign in with Apple even better
is that, if you don’t want to share your email
address with a service, you can hide it and
Apple will create a unique single-use email
address for you that forwards to your real
email address. The best part? Apple’s terms of
service state that all App Store apps that offer
Google, Facebook, and Twitter sign-in options to
also provide a Sign in with Apple button, so the
option should be pretty prominent soon.
Apple introduced a bunch of other privacy-
focused features including the ability to give an
app or website your location just once, with a
requirement to ask again when the next time it
wants to use location data. What’s more, Apple
will now send you notifications when apps
use your location data in the background, and
you can then turn off tracking for that app if
you desire. Companies such as Facebook are
most likely to be affected by these changes.
When it comes to sharing content such as
images and videos on social media, iOS 13 now
lets you control where you share your location
data, and under the in-built Share Sheet panel,
you’ll be able to turn off location metadata
from your photos.
VoIP apps like WhatsApp and Facebook
Messenger have also seen some changes in iOS
13, with Apple limiting data collection. Apple’s
APIs were originally meant to allow apps that
provide phone calls over the internet to listen
for calls in the background, but developers
were using them to keep their apps running in
the background to collect data, which Apple
banned from iOS 13. Facebook and WhatsApp
will now collect less data on everyday users.