With iOS 26, Safari will counter one of the web’s most invasive tracking methods

August 1, 2025
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Good news for Apple users who care about privacy and use Safari!

9to5Mac writes:

Introduced for Private Browsing sessions in Safari 17.0, Advanced Fingerprinting Protection was also optionally available for regular non-private sessions. With iOS 26, it will be enabled by default. Here’s what that means.

Starting with iOS 26 (as well as iPad 26, and macOS 26), Apple is flipping the switch on Advanced Fingerprinting Protection for all browsing sessions, not just Private Browsing.

9to5Mac

As stated above, this feature has been available for a while in Safari and has been on by default for Private Browsing sessions, however, more technically savvy users may already know that you can already enable it for all browsing sessions in current versions of Safari. I’ve had it on for all browsing sessions for a long time on my Macs, my iPhone and my iPad.

If you want to know how Advanced Fingerprinting Protection works in Safari, then head over to 9to5Mac and read through the original article.

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