iOS 16.1—Brilliant New iPhone Privacy Feature Arriving Any Minute Now

Cybersecurity iOS 16. 1—Brilliant New iPhone Privacy Feature Arriving Any Minute Now Kate O’Flaherty Senior Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Straight Talking Cyber Following New! Follow this author to stay notified about their latest stories.

Got it! Oct 19, 2022, 03:11am EDT | New! Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Got it! Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Apple’s iOS 16. 1 update is coming any minute now , along with a bunch of brilliant new iPhone features. One of the coolest updates coming in iOS 16.

1 is going to give you really granular control over your privacy via a new menu for copying and pasting from other apps. One of the coolest updates coming in iOS 16. 1 is going to give you really granular control over your .

. . [+] privacy, via a new menu for copying and pasting from other apps.

NurPhoto via Getty Images The iOS 16. 1 feature came about as a result of an annoying bug introduced in iOS 16 as part of a new privacy feature. Intended to help limit who can access your data, the feature requires apps to gain permission before accessing the iPhone clipboard to paste text from other apps.

However, some iPhone users were seeing the prompt so often it was becoming annoying, which led Apple to fix the problem in iOS 16. 0. 2.

Since then, the iPhone maker has released iOS 16. 0. 3 , and the next iOS release on Monday 24 October is expected to be iOS 16.

1. In true Apple fashion, the iPhone maker has improved the copy and paste feature further in iOS 16. 1.

The iOS 16. 1 privacy setting includes a new Paste from Other Apps menu showing apps that have previously asked for permission, in the Settings > [app] > Paste from Other Apps. The menu offers three options: Ask—the app must continue to request permission to paste content from other apps; Deny—the app cannot paste content from other apps; and allow—the app can paste content from other apps without asking for permission again.

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“It’s often taken when opening an app, and there is no way to stop this from occurring,” he warns. The iOS 16. 1 feature is pretty cool because it allows you to control your privacy without the annoyance of constant prompts.

In fact, the iOS 16. 1 menu reminds me of the App Tracking Transparency Feature and App Privacy Report already available on iPhones. Another cool feature for iPhone privacy is the Safety Check , which allows you to see which permissions have been granted to various iPhone apps.

Why not try it out while you wait for iOS 16. 1? Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn . Kate O’Flaherty Editorial Standards Print Reprints & Permissions.