I recently looked at my iPhone‘s traffic and was painfully reminded at how it sends every keystroke you type into the home screen search to Apples servers by default.
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@sylvie i believe you are incorrect.
my post is very obviously identifiable including my name and any information. Nothing on Mastodon is encrypted, during transport or otherwise.
by contrast, information sent to Apple is encrypted in transport and “Any information sent to Apple does not identify you, and is associated with a 15-minute random, rotating device-generated identifier.”
"This information does not include search results that show files or content on your device.”
"Your account name, number, and password will not be sent to Apple.”
@chris you are using a web browser, right? HTTPS is encrypted and the only identifiable information exchanged is your IP address (which isnt actually your IP address, we ran out of those years ago, and some sort of an IP address is needed to use the internet in the first place so its impossible not to send one), anyone viewing the encrypted traffic will not be able to idenify you from it, they can only idenify you from seeing your post, which is not the traffic which is encrypted, this is what apple encrypts, the traffic, the underlying request gets decrypted when it reaches apple
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It's even worse than I thought, it even transmits your current (accurate!) geolocation. Can't even show this to you because I'd dox myself without editing the video.
@NikTheDusky damn yeah it IS buried deep in privacy and security -> location service -> system service -> suggestion and search. Somehow i have all the related options turned off already. I guess my habit of fully exploring the settings before using a device is paying off
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@NikTheDusky Apple is like: we care about your user experience, so we installed a keylogger on your device
@schratze @NikTheDusky
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I recently looked at my iPhone‘s traffic and was painfully reminded at how it sends every keystroke you type into the home screen search to Apples servers by default.
Every. Single. Keystroke. Instantly.
Just searching for a contact, an appointment or a local file? Doesn’t matter, it gets sent to Apple anyways.
You probably want to turn this off!
Go to Settings -> Search and disable „show related content“.
This disables web search in the launcher, but what do we have browsers for?
@NikTheDusky I’m somewhat remembering having agreed to something that might be this very feature. Are you sure that it is enabled by default?
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I recently looked at my iPhone‘s traffic and was painfully reminded at how it sends every keystroke you type into the home screen search to Apples servers by default.
Every. Single. Keystroke. Instantly.
Just searching for a contact, an appointment or a local file? Doesn’t matter, it gets sent to Apple anyways.
You probably want to turn this off!
Go to Settings -> Search and disable „show related content“.
This disables web search in the launcher, but what do we have browsers for?@NikTheDusky Does it doe this for other keyboards that can be installed?
Can the Network permissions be disabled for the Home app or the keyboard?
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@Quasit @NikTheDusky - you mean something like Linux?
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@NikTheDusky Apple is like: we care about your user experience, so we installed a keylogger on your device
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@jonossaseuraava @NikTheDusky @schratze
So its microsofts "Swiftkey" on android that some Android roms from vendors use...
and the Google Keyboard has an "incognito" mode when entering passwords?glad i use old refurbished phones with LinageOS :3
they are less then 120€ too -
@jonossaseuraava @NikTheDusky @schratze
So its microsofts "Swiftkey" on android that some Android roms from vendors use...
and the Google Keyboard has an "incognito" mode when entering passwords?glad i use old refurbished phones with LinageOS :3
they are less then 120€ too -
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@NikTheDusky Does it doe this for other keyboards that can be installed?
Can the Network permissions be disabled for the Home app or the keyboard?
@mast0d0nphan the keyboard doesn't matter because the requests that are sent are part of the search feature in the search bar on the home screen. you can either turn of location access for this specific feature to prevent it from including your geolocation, or disable the web search suggestions feature altogether. This happens in your browser as well, if you have suggestions turned on there. You need to disable these as well, if you don't want that.
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I recently looked at my iPhone‘s traffic and was painfully reminded at how it sends every keystroke you type into the home screen search to Apples servers by default.
Every. Single. Keystroke. Instantly.
Just searching for a contact, an appointment or a local file? Doesn’t matter, it gets sent to Apple anyways.
You probably want to turn this off!
Go to Settings -> Search and disable „show related content“.
This disables web search in the launcher, but what do we have browsers for?@NikTheDusky nooooooo my keylogger :(((
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I recently looked at my iPhone‘s traffic and was painfully reminded at how it sends every keystroke you type into the home screen search to Apples servers by default.
Every. Single. Keystroke. Instantly.
Just searching for a contact, an appointment or a local file? Doesn’t matter, it gets sent to Apple anyways.
You probably want to turn this off!
Go to Settings -> Search and disable „show related content“.
This disables web search in the launcher, but what do we have browsers for?@NikTheDusky
In German it is called:
In den deutsche Einstellungen-> Suchen-> „zugehörigen Inhalt anzeigen“
#iphone #DataSovereignty -
I recently looked at my iPhone‘s traffic and was painfully reminded at how it sends every keystroke you type into the home screen search to Apples servers by default.
Every. Single. Keystroke. Instantly.
Just searching for a contact, an appointment or a local file? Doesn’t matter, it gets sent to Apple anyways.
You probably want to turn this off!
Go to Settings -> Search and disable „show related content“.
This disables web search in the launcher, but what do we have browsers for?@NikTheDusky @xjki …and after the next software update it’s probably back again 🫠 How does one stay on top of all these settings?
