Ios App Privacy Nutrition Label

In a big push toward data transparency apple will now display a summary of an app s privacy practices before a user downloads it from the app store.

Ios app privacy nutrition label. As part of ios 14 apple is introducing a new app store feature that will provide privacy details for each app that you re downloading which the company has said can be likened to a nutrition. On each app s product page users can learn about some of the data types the app may collect and whether that data is linked to them or used to track them. One week later and still none of google s flagship apps have privacy nutrition info.

Apple s goal with this initiative is to better inform users of the privacy practices of individual applications. If you want your app to stay on the app store you now have to. App privacy details on the app store.

The proposed solution is labels similar to nutrition labels seen on the side of food packaging that quickly and clearly tell users how an app uses their data. After announcing new ios privacy requirements back at wwdc in june apple has shared a new detailed document for developers as they prepare to create privacy nutrition labels for apps. On january 5 google told techcrunch that the data would be added to its ios apps this week or the next week but both this week and the next week have come and gone with no update.

Akin to nutrition labels on food all third party apps and apple s default apps now have easy to understand privacy labels that will allow users to see what data has been collected by an app. Only this nutrition label kind of detail is not being enforced yet and it will seemingly always rely on developers being honest. It has now been well over a month since google last updated its apps.

The app store now helps users better understand an app s privacy practices before they download the app on any apple platform.