iOS 16 has brought with it numerous features that have significantly improved some of the tools that we have on our iPhone, bringing new ones that we can count on. And among all these new functions that the new version of the operating system has brought with it, security is one of the spearheads and therefore, there is a new way in which we can see who is spying on us, who has access to our personal data.
To carry out this function, you will simply have to access the security options of your iPhone and with this that we are telling you, we will allow ourselves to control who accesses and who does not access the permissions that we give from the applications to control who can spy on the data that we put on our iPhone.
What function does it have?
We have explained to you roughly what this function does that gives us that added security when it comes to controlling the data we have on our mobile, but to tell the truth, what other functions does it have? What is this for?
This is a function that, through a quick check, tells you which people and applications have your personal data with them. We refer to data such as email, phone number, name or even access to some more private data. In this way we can have absolute control of everything that happens on our mobile to the point of being able to say who has access to our data and who does not.
Getting a little more into the matter, this app will allow us to stop sharing information from apps such as the calendar, photos or notes from our device. In addition, it can serve such interesting functions as the following:
- Update your emergency contacts.
- Change passwords on your device.
- Review authorized contacts with access to our mobile
Within this function that we can find on the iPhone, we will also have the option of an emergency reset of our mobile. Something that will help us in cases of emergency -as its name indicates- since it will allow us to revoke all the access of people and devices to our iPhone and thus clean it completely of possible spies.
Activate it on your iPhone
To carry out the activation of this function, we will have to follow a few simple steps that will take us to this very interesting function. First of all and as the most important part, you must go to the phone settings and once there do the following:
- Scroll to the ‘Privacy and Security’ option.
- Inside it, below, we can find the ‘ Security check’ .
- Click and select the option ‘Manage access and shared data’.
Once you have selected this option, a verification process will begin on your phone through which you will have to follow some steps that indicate how you want security to be managed with each app and each contact. It is a process that will not take you more than a few seconds to verify and that you may be very happy about.
In the last steps of this function, we will be allowed to reset various aspects of our mobile. This is the case of our password with which we can access the phone, our appearance in Face ID or even the Apple ID password itself. For these reasons, once we have finished all the steps indicated by this iPhone tool, we can breathe easy and not fear for our data, since we will have eliminated all the accesses that seem unnecessary to our mobile.