Take Control of iOS & iPadOS Privacy and Security, 4th Edition

Protect Yourself

This book’s privacy and security focus used to aim almost entirely towards advising you on protecting your passwords, passcodes, passkeys, accounts, and devices. By making those efforts, you’d keep your private data private, and deter or prevent people knowing more about you than you wanted and blocking them from gaining access to your hardware and cloud accounts to extract or destroy data.

However, times change and Apple has changed with them. I introduced this chapter in this fourth edition of the book because Apple has increasingly built tools based on the notion that you might have your emotional or physical safety at risk. That is, someone could terrorize you remotely, ruining your peace of mind, or literally attack you. ...