As well as resetting your ad ID, there’s an option to Delete advertising ID, meaning “apps can no longer use this advertising ID to show you personalized ads.”įinally, while you’re thinking about your digital privacy and security, you should make sure you are using a password manager to protect your online life and using multi-factor authentication wherever possible.Emanuela Del Dottore 1,2 Ali Sadeghi 1 Alessio Mondini 1 Barbara Mazzolai 1 This advertising ID is used by apps and advertisers across the web to track your interests and show you potentially creepy personalized advertising. Here you can use Reset advertising ID to change the ID Google has assigned to your phone. Using these options, you can wipe your web and activity data, the locations Google keeps on your movements, and details such as YouTube search history.

Both of these options are linked to your wider Google account(s), but the settings here allow you to control what data Google keeps about you- it’s a lot. Next in Privacy, you should open Google location history and Activity controls.

Here’s what you should take a look at on Android 13. However, whenever you download a new operating system, it’s worth spending a few minutes scrolling and tapping through all the options you haven’t touched in the past 12 months. You probably don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the privacy and security settings on your phone. This version of the OS involves changes under the hood for app developers and some streamlined security options for users. But Android’s security team is trying to simplify people’s privacy options throughout Android 13. The newest version of the Android operating system is more “evolution than revolution,” with the majority of changes smaller than in previous iterations.

Google, meanwhile, has already made the latest version of Android available-on some phones you can now download Android 13. In a few weeks, Apple will release iOS 16 to millions of iPhones and iPads around the world.

It's late summer in the northern hemisphere, which means new phone operating systems are coming.

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