Since updating both my iPhone and iPad to 14.5 exactly no apps on my devices are throwing that prompt, and the "allow apps to ask to track" toggle is on. Are these prompts coming over the next few days as app updates roll out, or should I be seeing them now?
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Not Getting the App Tracking Transparency Prompts
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If you go into Settings > Privacy > Tracking, you'll see "Allow Apps to Request to Track". Turns out (I think - following the convoluted 'guidance' from the Learn More...option) that if the switch is off, iOS will block all requests automatically and you'll not see the pop-up screen on newly installed / updated apps. If you turn the switch on, you are supposed to see these individual pop-ups and, if you use "Ask App Not To Track" in the pop-up, it will then list them in the Settings > Privacy > Tracking section, for you to later change your mind on.
Possibly one of the worst though-out controls (and instructions) Apple has come up with in awhile.
Possibly one of the worst though-out controls (and instructions) Apple has come up with in awhile.
I also don't get the prompts. We have 2 iPhones here. One iPhone shows the prompts and my iPhone doesn't show any prompts. I tested the same apps (BBC News for example) on both iPhones.
Unbelievable. You'd think with 3 months of beta testing they could manage to make this work at release.
Agreed. Horribly implemented and communicated. Makes one question how serious they are about this feature.
Apps have to be updated by developers first
Why you won't see App Tracking Transparency prompts immediately
Apple debuted iOS 14.5, with its App Tracking Transparency feature, on Monday. But if you updated your iPhone or iPad, and haven't seen a flurry of alerts
www.cultofmac.com
I tested with different apps. Where on one iPhone i got the prompts, on another not.Apps have to be updated by developers first
Why you won't see App Tracking Transparency prompts immediately
Apple debuted iOS 14.5, with its App Tracking Transparency feature, on Monday. But if you updated your iPhone or iPad, and haven't seen a flurry of alertswww.cultofmac.com
You can try some of these which are mentioned. I tried at least the Reuters and WSJ app. No prompts at all.
So if the button is not turned on, as below, this means no apps are currently tracking correct?
Their own 'Learn More...' is terrifically convoluted and full of nonsensical instructions, but it seems to come to this -
- If the radio control is 'Off' (as per your image) then the blocker is, in fact, 'On', and the 'request to track' window simply muted, and you've blocked the tracker. Nothing else needs doing.
- If the radio control is 'On' (green slider), then the blocker is 'On' too, but you should see the 'request to track' window after the next update to an app's software, or if you open a new app. Once you've decided on a particular app's tracking fate, it should be listed on the Tracking page where you can change your mind about it later.
Unless, apparently, you have hitherto set a particular app's controls independently re: tracking, then that may disable this particular feature.
Or you have another app - like Lockdown Privacy, whose free Firewall setting seems to disable most tracking silently and without Apple involvement.
Its all a bit of a mess - good idea, badly realized. Pity.
Report: 10,000 apps have already enabled App Tracking Transparency; most of them are games - 9to5Mac
The long-awaited App Tracking Transparency feature became available to iPhone and iPad users this week with the release of iOS...
9to5mac.com
I swear to God, If I see one more person comment that you have to wait for apps to update...Report: 10,000 apps have already enabled App Tracking Transparency; most of them are games - 9to5Mac
The long-awaited App Tracking Transparency feature became available to iPhone and iPad users this week with the release of iOS...
I tried each of the apps pictured in the article (DnD, Hulu etc) and I get NO prompt. I'm running the latest versions of these apps, and have "ask to track" turned on.
This feature is broken for some people, period.
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Mine is grayed out as well. In fact I am now running 14.6 beta 2 and it has been like this from the beginning
I managed to fix the greyed out slider with following steps:
1. logging out from iCloud (Settings—> Apple ID (your picture on the top) —> Sign out (Save copy of your data to iPhone).
- at this point I had the slider enabled
2. logging back to your iCloud account
- the slider still keeps being enabled, even I turned off and on the iPhone