The online instructions for restricting data access are very complex and confusing, and the steps required are scattered in different places. There’s no clear direction on whether to go to the app settings, the central settings – or even both,’ says Amel Bourdoucen, a doctoral researcher at Aalto.

`I’m curious to know in what way are the instructions confusing. I do wish iOS was better about settings but in general app specific setting will be mostly in the actual app. System wide settings or app settings that modify a system setting for that app will be available in the Settings app.

It turned out that the participants weren’t able to prevent any of the apps from sharing their data with other applications or the service provider.

Yeah I’m curious to know what the researchers are referring to. Is it the tracking features?

Finding and adjusting privacy settings also took a lot of time. ‘When making adjustments, users don’t get feedback on whether they’ve succeeded. They then get lost along the way, go backwards in the process and scroll randomly, not knowing if they’ve done enough,’ Bourdoucen says.

Settings app > Privacy and Security takes a lot of time?

This article is pretty vague and doesn’t really offer any good feedback. The author doesn’t mention which specific setting they are having trouble limiting. Apple is not perfect but out of all the big tech, they’re the most privacy sound. I can’t imagine it’s any better with Googles Android or Windows.

Omg wow! Thank you. Had no idea about this app until today. Now I’m wondering why it isn’t more popular but yes thank you for the suggestion

Yeah if you’re still signed in and haven’t been plagued with a reason to sign out, it’s an amazing app.

But signing into the app is pretty much impossible at this point or should definitely not require so much effort just to simply log into my account. This was an issue on the beta and people reported it. A workaround I did was installing an older build but since the beta is nonexistent now, I’m just stuck with this annoying bug.

Really sad because yes out of all the Lemmy apps, it was the only one that had the “hide bars on scroll” feature Apollo had. It’s crazy to me that people can browse with the nav bars constantly on display. I find them so distracting and useless when I’m actually scrolling through content.

Yeah I can’t even log in the app anymore after deleting it. It keeps telling me that the my username or password is wrong which I know it’s not since I’m able to log in on the browser and in other Lemmy clients.

God is coming

Fuck shit bitch fucker ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Thanks for the recommendation! Unfortunately I’m on iOS and Sync isn’t available :(

Yes, try Avelon OP! It’s really good. The UI is so smooth. Scrolling. And it has the ability to hide bars on scroll. It seems I’m the only one who cares about this feature haha but to me it makes content look much better without the navigation bars constantly being on display.

Avelon is phenomenal. Especially the hide bars on scroll feature. No other app has this. I wonder if it’s hard to develop? I remember the developer of Apollo had quite a few bugs with it in the beginning.

I like Voyager a lot. It’s definitely the most Apollo esque. Other than the lack of hide bars on scroll feature. The bars at the bottom and the top can be distracting and I find content looks better when they disappear as you scroll.

So far I’ve only found Avelon to have this feature.

What features do you want?

Hmm I’m using this feature right now on iOS 17.

When you play something on your Apple TV, open control center on your phone, press the AirPlay icon in the now playing section, select control other speakers & tvs at the bottom, and find/select your Apple TV that is playing content.

Now it should show the now playing widget on the Lock Screen and in the dynamic island.

It’s not the same situation though. Pixel watches are unrepairable even by Google.

Why do companies(states) insist on releasing their obviously inferior takes on things that are already on our phones and work well.

This will probably go the way of Apple Pay. Many companies insisting on using their version of mobile pay until they eventually cave because they finally realized how shit it is

I just looked up the California wallet app for this and it has such low ratings.