The updateon to iOS 16 from Apple brings a lot of new features and changes ator iPhone, including some hidden but important ones. A fundamental principle for Apple is privacy, and as such, iOS 16 introduces four new features that should expand the ability of tor iPhone to keep your personal information private.
Remove certain fields from shared contacts
If you are one of those who prefer to have organized the contact details in tor iPhone, you’ve probably saved phone numbers, email addresses, birthdates, nicknames, and other personal information of people in your address book. when you share contact details with others, all of this information is passed on without you noticing bill.
to avoid ito, open Contacts app and tap on any of youyour contacts. scrolle down and select Share contacty later filter fields at the top of the share sheet. here, you will see checked the box next to each contact details field. Remove marks from the things you don’t want share, and toca List. when you share this contact, it will automatically remove the fields you unchecked.
Unfortunately, you’ll need to remember to do this every time you share a contact from youu iPhone.
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and by the waydo not forget remove location data from your photos before sharing them.
Improved clipboard protection
Apps will no longer be able to automatically check what’s on youror clipboard. when you copy something from an app and paste it in another, you will always see a popup that tand will ask if you want allow the app to access ator clipboard.
Naps pasting something manually, you must grant this permission. However, in the past, malicious applications tried to automatically collect everything in the clipboard. Now you can deny permission for these apps atu clipboard and, just in case, uninstall them.
A better way to hide your photos
The Photos app in iOS 16 does a much better job of hiding tus images. Now you must enter tu passcode or use Face ID or Touch ID to open the Hidden and Recently Deleted albums in the app. Is function is enabled by default, so you don’t have to do anything to start using it.
However, you can go one step further and hide tu completely hidden photo album. see the Setting > Photos and uncheck show hidden album. Your hidden photos will still exist, but the album will not be visible in the Photos app.
Do a regular security check
iOS 16 has introduced a feature called Safety Check.what allows you to quickly review the permissions granted to various applications, revoke access to shared data and change the password of tu ID de Apple. Safety Check is basically a way to quickly protect data on tu iPhone.
This feature is especially useful for people whose safety has been compromised, such as those facing domestic violence or those trying to distance themselves from abusive relationships. Here you have a guide step by step to use this new function of iOS 16.
