Disable Ad Tracking on Apple Devices (2026)

Apple sells advertising too, and the profile used to aim it is built on your own device. Three separate switches, in three different places, and turning off one does nothing to the other two.

WebRTC - Embedded Content Tracking

You can be paying for a VPN and still hand a website your real IP address, because the browser feature that powers video calls asks for it directly. Test yourself first, then decide what runs in which browser.

Remove Stored Wi-Fi Networks (Android)

Every network your phone has joined is stored, and network names map to street addresses in public databases. The path moved, and the one in most older guides is Samsung's, not Android's.

Computer "10" List

Ten things any computer user should be able to do without looking them up. Nothing exotic on the list — which is the point, because the gaps in it are where most compromises start.

Safety Check and Access Audit (Apple)

Access accumulates quietly: a shared album, a partner's old device, an app you approved once and forgot. Apple built a wizard that lists all of it in one place, and one button that revokes the lot.

Remove Stored Wi-Fi Networks (Apple)

The networks your iPhone remembers are a travel history: hotels, offices, airports, a friend's flat. Clearing the list is less alarming than the menu makes it look.

Browser Fingerprinting

Delete every cookie you own and the site still recognizes you. Time zone, screen, browser settings and the versions of software you happen to run add up to something close enough to a name.

Revoke Camera and Microphone Access (Android)

Most guides still send you to Settings then Privacy, and a level was added since. Here is where the permission manager actually lives now, plus the indicators that show when something is listening.

6 Easy Cyber Security Steps

The attacks that actually reach ordinary people are not clever. They are a password reused on a site that got breached, and a text message someone else received. Six habits that close the common paths.

Password Managers

Recycling one password across accounts means a single breach opens all of them. A manager trades that problem for one very good master key — a real trade, and worth understanding before you make it.