Security News > 2020 > September > iOS 14: New privacy and security features

Apple has released iOS 14, with a bucketload of new and improved functional features and a handful of privacy and security ones.

New privacy and security features in iOS 14 The new iOS will tell you when an app is using your camera or microphone.

Go to Settings > Privacy and Location Services > Location Services, and you can configure for each app whether you want it to access your device's location "Only while the app is in use", "Always", "Never", or you want the app to ask you for permission each time you run it.

Under Privacy > Photos you can see which apps have requested access to your photos and you can choose to restrict each app's access just to selected photos or photo albums.

The Safari mobile browser has been updated to show a Privacy Report, which shows all the cross-site tracking cookies it has blocked in the last 30 days if you turned on Prevent Cross-Site Tracking in Safari's Privacy and Security Settings.

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