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07 May 2021, 10:05 pm The Epic vs. Apple trial is bringing us down memory lane, as it exposed emails revealing the true extent of, what turns out, the biggest iPhone hack ever. In case it slipped people's memory, in 2015, hackers successfully crept in a potentially dangerous 'XCodeGhost' malware to thousands of iPhone and iPad apps.  Apple, during that time, has been privy to the details of the attack. To add, the company, on their part, said that they notified hundreds of millions of victims. Researchers also estimate that about 4,000 apps are infected.  (Photo : Sean Gallup/Getty Images) ...

96% iPhone Users Have Disabled App Tracking in the US Posted by Rajesh Pandey on May 07, 2021 in iOS 14, News Data collected by analytics firm Flurry reveals that only 4% of the iPhone users in the United States have enabled app tracking after updating their device to iOS 14.5. The figures are based on a sample size of 2.5 million daily mobile active users. Worldwide, the numbers jump to 12%, with a sample userbase of 5.3 million. This means that an overwhelming majority of iPhone users are not allowing apps to track them across apps and services. With the release of iOS 14.5, Apple introduce...

07 May 2021, 01:05 am (Photo : (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)) NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 29: A man checks his phone in an Apple retail store in Grand Central Terminal, January 29, 2019 in New York City. Apple is set to report first-quarter earnings results after U.S. markets close on Tuesday. About nine out of ten iOS users in the United States opted out of the ad tracking feature that Apple launched since iOS 14.5, an ongoing study of the iOS App Tracking Transparency showed.  It turns out that the day Facebook has been dreading has come.  Apple's new privacy feature is, indeed, winnin...

Source: Christine Romero-Chan / iMore App Tracking Transparency is a new feature that Apple introduced with the latest releases of iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5. In short, Apple says that "App Tracking Transparency lets you control which apps are allowed to track your activity across other companies' apps and websites." Once this feature is enabled, apps will be required to ask the user if they can track them. If you still aren't familiar with how this tracking technology works, think about all those times you were searching for one specific product that you maybe need to buy just once. You may or...

Zynga has made a massive name for itself over the years in the form of mobile and social media integrated “hypercasual” games. Farmville alone has been a brand on which the company could reliably count on for years and there are plenty further popular titles in Zynga’s repertoire that expand its popularity and revenue further, but a big part of that last one is in-game ads for its many free games – a matter which might have been threatened by Apple’s new iOS App Tracking Transparency features. However, in its recent earnings conference call, Zynga execs suggested they are not worrie...