• Irate1013@lemmy.ml
    4·
    6 months ago

    One thing I don’t see any one mention in the comments, is that you should start paying attention to the “Data linked to you” section in the appstore. As an example here’s WhatsApp and Signal:

    Granted that does mean you are relying on the developer and Apple to not be deceptive, but it’s better than nothing and a good place to start.

  • Scratch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    Joke: The first app to get rid of is iOS.

    (I’ve been making iPhone apps for a decade, let me rant!)

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 months ago

    I see a lot of people in here shitting on iOS and not Google. Stock Android is worse than iOS for privacy. Unless you’re going to run a degoogled Android, don’t bother getting rid of iOS. But degoogled Android is the best option, if you can.

    • Unmapped@lemmy.ml
      3·
      6 months ago

      Stock iOS may be better for privacy than google on a OS level. But so many of the best Foss and open source app alternatives are android only. Like iOS can’t even run real Firefox. Much less things like newpipe.

  • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    6 months ago

    Not an app, but one thing I can recommend that is pretty much “for free” is to turn on iCloud Advanced Data Protection, that gets you end-to-end encryption for pretty much all iCloud storage (photos and so on).

    Everything else I would recommend is probably not going to happen (such as deleting Discord) or of questionable benefits (such as using the web version of Discord instead of what is probably the app) :^)

  • foremanguy@lemmy.ml
    1·
    6 months ago

    The main problem is iOS sorry. Because most of privacy apps are only available on android…

  • Humorless4483@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 months ago

    Delete speedtest.net, YouTube, YouTube kids and ChatGPT and use either web apps or favorite them in your browser, as Firefox for iOS is really bad compared to other platforms I would recommend you to use brave instead as it comes included with an adblocker which works really well. Also do you need all of iOS’s bloat ? Do have an Apple Watch ? Do you have an Apple TV+ subscription ? Do you use HomeKit for smart home devices and so on.

    • prousername@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Well ever since i got this iphone, i didnt really bother removing all the bloat. Thanks for the recommendation though!

  • chi-chan~@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 months ago

    I’d start small, a lot of people would tell you to do some drastic changes to you life, but, like every other thing you have in life, start small, or you’ll might fail.

    I’d suggest starting here.

  • macniel@feddit.org
    0·
    6 months ago

    Depends, do you trust Apple with your privacy? And how about Amazon, do you trust them?

    • prousername@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      0·
      6 months ago

      Well, all my home appliences rely on Alexa. I do trust amazon as i had no issues with it.

      About apple, i did opt out from diagnostic data sharing, filled my icloud drive and disabled find my iphone. Tho to be honest, i had this iphone for 2 years now and havent found a reason to switch yet. (iPhone 12)

      • TrenchcoatFullOfBats@belfry.rip
        2·
        6 months ago

        You should not trust Amazon. Multiple Ring privacy failures, including giving video footage to police without consent, Amazon employees watching Ring video footage without consent, then there’s stuff like Sidewalk that uses your home network as part of a mesh network, collection of biometric days via palm readers at Whole Foods for checkout, which they then use for their Amazon One service that they sell to businesses to verify age and identity, the whole “AI powered” Just Walk Out tech in physical Amazon stores that turned out to be not AI at all but a bunch of Indian subcontractors watching video cameras, etc, etc, etc…