It appears this issue for app tracking and asking apps to request to track is now working properly. To recap, after updating to iOS 17.5, many people noticed that if you went to Privacy & Security –> Tracking, an option called “Allow apps to request to track” was greyed out so that you couldn’t turn it off or on. This blew up the Internet for a couple of days as this wasn’t exactly a trivial bug.
Apple appears to have fixed it based on the fact that I noted this late yesterday:
Compare that with this photo taken at the time that the issue surfaced:
You’ll note in the first picture the control for this option is now live again. I am guessing that this was some sort of server side fix. As in Apple made some sort of change on their end for iPhones running iOS 17.5 that fixed this.
Now if they would only fix this issue which appears to be extremely widespread. I haven’t seen it. But I know people who have and this looks really bad on Apple.
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The App Tracking Bug In iOS 17.5 Has Been Fixed
It appears this issue for app tracking and asking apps to request to track is now working properly. To recap, after updating to iOS 17.5, many people noticed that if you went to Privacy & Security –> Tracking, an option called “Allow apps to request to track” was greyed out so that you couldn’t turn it off or on. This blew up the Internet for a couple of days as this wasn’t exactly a trivial bug.
Apple appears to have fixed it based on the fact that I noted this late yesterday:
Compare that with this photo taken at the time that the issue surfaced:
You’ll note in the first picture the control for this option is now live again. I am guessing that this was some sort of server side fix. As in Apple made some sort of change on their end for iPhones running iOS 17.5 that fixed this.
Now if they would only fix this issue which appears to be extremely widespread. I haven’t seen it. But I know people who have and this looks really bad on Apple.
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This entry was posted on May 19, 2024 at 9:04 am and is filed under Commentary with tags Apple. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.