If you’re curious about more of the history (now, almost a decade ago), this was the scandal that likely motivated the above: https://www.theverge.com/2012/2/7

If you’re curious about more of the history (now, almost a decade ago), this was the scandal that likely motivated the above: https://www.theverge.com/2012/2/7/2782947/path-ios-app-user-information-collected-privacy https://www.theverge.com/2012/2/7/2782947/path-ios-app-user-... Congresspeople sent letters to app developers as a result (not even Apple, ha). iOS 6 was then seeded to the public four months after that article. But! It actually goes earlier than this. Apple started phasing out access to device identifiers used to track users across apps in iOS 5: https://techcrunch.com/2011/08/19/apple-ios-5-phasing-out-udid/ https://techcrunch.com/2011/08/19/apple-ios-5-phasing-out-ud... (again, none of this was marketed to anyone)