After all the controversy involving the App Track Transparency (ATT) for iOS 14.5, where the Apple requires apps to ask for user consent to track them across other apps and websites, the update finally went into effect yesterday, Monday. With the update also came new Human Interface Guidelines from the company to developers. The new rules aim to prevent apps from circumventing ATT in any way to get users' permission to track them. The Apple says it will ban apps that limit functions or offer internal advantages for users to accept tracking.

Check out the recommendations of Apple for app tracking

“Do not offer incentives to obtain permission. You may not offer compensation to people to obtain their permission,” the section reads. Accessing User Data. “In addition, you cannot withhold functionality or content, or render your app useless until the person consents to being tracked.”

The text continues with its recommendations: “Do not display a custom message that mirrors the functionality of the system alert. In particular, do not create a button that uses ‘Allow’ or similar terms, because people do not allow anything on a pre-alert screen.” Going further, it also asks developers to “not display an image of the default alert and modify it in any way,” and “do not create a visual cue that draws people’s attention to the Allow button on the system alert.”

Apps may only show a pop-up screen before the system alert explaining how they use the user's tracked data. This screen should contain a button with a name like “Continue,” not “Allow,” so as not to confuse users. Only the system alert Apple may contain an “Allow” button. The other option is “Ask App Not to Track”.

Craig Federighi, the company's vice president of software engineering, reiterated recently that developers need to follow new privacy policies, and that the Apple will ban apps that try to obtain tracking permission by bypassing ATT.

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