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You know those super annoying popups that occur on certain apps when you open them the first time after an install or reinstall?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ones asking if they can, you know, just chill in the background and snoop on all the interesting things you\u2019re doing on\u00a0other<\/em>\u00a0apps and websites to somehow \u201cimprove the experience\u201d in their app but are really designed to help them target ads better and sell your data to their scummy ad partners?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you hate those as much as I do, and you always click \u201cAsk App Not to Track\u201d and you\u2019d rather not deal with that annoying extra step anymore, there\u2019s a setting for that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pop into Settings, head to Privacy & Security<\/strong>, then tap Tracking<\/strong> up there near the top and then toggle the switch next to Allow Apps to Request to Track<\/strong> to off<\/strong>. This setting is also present on iPad as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now you won\u2019t get that pop up anymore and all future requests will be automatically denied because honestly, what business is it of the game Coffee Pool that I\u2019ve spent way too long over the last week looking for a pair of good but not outrageously expensive loafers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s how to tell all apps \u201cno thanks\u201d to tracking you across other apps and websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":98517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7597,4],"class_list":["post-98514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mac-tips","category-tech-tips"],"yoast_head":"\nHow to Get Rid of Those Annoying iPhone App Tracking Pop-ups For Good<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Here\u2019s how to tell all apps \u201cno thanks\u201d to tracking you across other apps and websites.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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