How to Turn off ‘Web and App activity’ on iPhone

Some apps on your iPhone track your activity even when not used. This might be troublesome as you might want to keep your privacy secured. Thankfully, iPhones with iOS 15 and above updates restrict any app from tracking your data without your permission. Hence, to know how to turn off Web and App activity on your iPhone, this guide will help you.

How to Turn Off Web and App activity on iPhone

You can disable the Web & App activity on your iPhone for all the apps by following these steps:

• On your iPhone, go to Settings from the app library on your home screen.
• The Settings window will open, here you need to scroll down and search for the ‘Privacy’ tab and tap on it.
• Scroll down and search for the ‘Tracking’ tab and tap on it to open the tracking window.
• Tap on the ‘Allow Apps to Request to Track’ toggle to turn it off.

How to Disable Google’s Web and App activity on iPhone

With the above method, you may disable the tracking activities of Apps but if you are using a search engine like Google, it constantly tracks your data to improve its service while you surf the internet. To turn off Google’s activity, follow these steps:

• On your iPhone, open your Google account and tap on the ‘Data and Privacy’ tab from the left panel.
• Scroll down and search for the History settings section and tap on the ‘Web and App activity’ tab.
• You will be taken to the ‘Activity controls’ page.
• Tap on the ‘Turn off’ option next to the Web and App Activity section to disable tracking.
• On the ‘Subsettings’ menu, you can tick on checkboxes to increase your privacy.

That’s everything covered on how to disable this feature on iPhone. Also, check out our guides on transferring Photos from iPhone to Mac or making Safari as Default Browser.