Privacy on iOS 11

[Macintosh1984]

Hi!

What do you say about iOS 11 and Privacy? You reccomend me to turn off somethig like Spotlight suggestions and others iPhone preferences?

Thanks!

 

[TheColtr]

If your worried about privacy iOS is the right system to be on. Turn off whatever you don’t feel comfortable with. But no matter what you can be sure that Apple doesn’t sell any information about customers to third parties like Google, or other OEMs do. Most of the stuff iOS does is done locally on the device. But like I said if you don’t feel comfortable with it then turn it off.

 

[hlfway2anywhere]

Hi!

What do you say about iOS 11 and Privacy? You reccomend me to turn off somethig like Spotlight suggestions and others iPhone preferences?

Thanks!

Spotlight suggestions are handled by your phone based on your usage trends. I'm not sure why you'd feel that it should be disabled for privacy.

 

[Macintosh1984]

About Spotlight suggestions... query search sent to Apple servers, they collect data and make profiling, or it's all anonymous?

 

[Feenician]

About Spotlight suggestions... query search sent to Apple servers, they collect data and make profiling, or it's all anonymous?

They use differential privacy, a statistical method of anonymisation.

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/apples-differential-privacy-collecting-data/

 

[Macintosh1984]

OK, thanks!