The IT Nerd

Apple is likely looking at this bug that appears to be widespread based on what I am seeing online. If you go to Privacy & Security –> Tracking, you’ll see this:

The allow apps to request to track is completely greyed out. You can’t change this option at all. Now the second paragraph says that this is due to the fact that my Apple ID is missing age information. Except that it isn’t. I checked that. So this is a bug.

Why should you care? If you want to control how apps track you across the Internet, then this setting is kind of important because when it’s turned on, it allows apps to request permission to do so. When it’s off, apps can’t track you at all. So in the state that this setting is currently in, you may actually be better off as it is ensuring that your app usage and the like remains private. But at the same time, I can see a scenario where this breaks some application because it can’t track your activities. Thus this needs to be fixed. And I assume that Apple will have to push out an iOS update to do that. Let’s hope that they do that soon as this bug along with a Photo’s bug where photos that were deleted have come back from the dead make it look like Apple’s QA team dropped the ball. Which of course isn’t a good look for Apple.

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