iOS 14 requires apps to ask for your permission to collect your data and track you, but this week, Apple announced that it wouldn’t enforce this feature until 2021.
When Apple revealed iOS 14 at WWDC 2020, most of us focused on the new features and the changes to the home screen, with widgets finally making their debut and an App Library that makes it much easier to search through all the software you have installed on your phone. In the meantime, the rest of the industry was far more concerned about a privacy feature that would require apps to ask users for permission to track them or access their advertising identifier. After an uproar from Facebook and others, Apple has delayed its enforcement of this new policy. First reported by The Information, Apple still plans to roll out the feature alongside iOS 14 this fall, but it won’t actually require any apps to seek your permission to track you until early next year.
