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How clever of them to "bury" all the privacy settings in a Settings menu called "Privacy".

• mikeyouse 13y ago
  Up until iOS7, the ad-tracking settings were under: "Settings" -> "General" -> "About" -> "Advertising" and not with the rest under "Privacy". And then they helpfully used a double-negative when describing the behavior of the function, the default state was: "Limit Ad Tracking -- Off" Apple are far too good with usability for either of those choices to be accidental.
  • Steko 13y ago
    So why change it in iOS 7 if they are out to "bury" it and trick people? "Apple is far to good to do X" is not a strong argument. They can and do make mistakes all over the place including their strongest areas.
    • sailfast 13y ago
      I applaud the move to the "Privacy" context menu, however you must also consider that in addition to the "Advertising" menu at the bottom, there is also a "System Services" sub-menu located at the bottom of Location Services which delivers location-based ads, diagnostics and usage, frequent locations, and "popular near me" settings. These were not exactly called out before the iOS7 update, and nobody reads the ToS so I was disappointed to see it buried so deeply given the focus on privacy with the new menu.