Apple provides many different ways to protect your privacy while using an iPhone or iPad, but iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 add even more features designed to keep you safe and secure. You can hide your email address, hide your internet activity, keep track of app permissions, monitor unsecure passwords, and much more.
To take advantage of the latest features, make sure you are running the latest OS version. Go to Settings > General > Software Update. You will either be told your software is up to date or be prompted to install the latest update. Once that is out of the way, here’s how to use these tools.
Protect Your Mail Activity
Companies and advertisers that send you email can acquire certain information about your activity in the Mail app. They can learn if and when you read a specific email and even determine your location. The update to iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 introduces a privacy feature called Protect Mail Activity that can stop this.
Turn this on under Settings > Mail > Privacy Protection, then turn on the switch for Protect Mail Activity. When enabled, your device’s IP address is hidden in order to mask your location. Any remote content from an email message loads privately in the background so it can’t be used to track you.
Hide Your Email Address
Hide My Email lets you sign up for apps and websites with a randomized email account in order to anonymize your identity and reduce the amount of spam sent to your actual email address. To use this feature, you must be running iOS 15 or iPadOS 15 and sign up for a paid iCloud+ subscription.
Go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Hide My Email to create a new address or use any random addresses you may have already used with Apple’s older Sign in with Apple feature. The next time you need to create an account to access a website or fill out an online form, use a random address instead.
Any emails generated through this account get forwarded to your actual email address, but you can always deactivate the anonymous address if you start receiving spam. Return to the Hide My Email page, select the random address, and tap Deactivate Email Address to delete it and keep your inbox spam-free.
Hide Your IP Address With iCloud Private Relay
With iCloud Private Relay, your actual IP address is replaced with one from a range of anonymous addresses based on your general region as a way to hide your specific location. Since your internet traffic is sent through two separate relays, no single entity, including Apple, can see or monitor your internet activity.
The feature is only available to iCloud+ subscribers who use the Safari browser.To enable iCloud Private Relay, go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Private Relay (Beta), then turn on the switch for Private Relay (Beta). Tap IP Address Location to have the relay use your general location, rather than your exact location, or an even more generalized location derived from your country and time zone.
In order to work, the websites you visit must fully support Private Relay. If a site does not, it may show content for the wrong region, saddle you with extra log-in steps, or not …….
Source: https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/privacy-features-ios-ipados-users-need-to-know