The recent WWDC Apple launched "App Tracking Transparency framework" and will be a part of iOS 14.3:
With iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and tvOS 14, you will need to receive the
user’s permission through the AppTrackingTransparency framework to
track them or access their device’s advertising identifier. Tracking
refers to the act of linking user or device data collected from your
app with user or device data collected from other companies’ apps,
websites, or offline properties for targeted advertising or
advertising
It's very vague information from Apple and Google how App Tracking Transparency will handle Google Analytics. Anyone know if ATT will affect the usage of Google Analytics in iOS14?
From Firebase documentation:
Analytics event logging, event reporting, and conversion measurement are unaffected, but attribution is impacted if IDFA is not accessible. To learn more about Google’s response to iOS 14, see our blog post.
You can see all affected Firebase products here:
https://firebase.google.com/docs/ios/supporting-ios-14
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I am getting confused if we have to show the requestTrackingAuthorization prompt or not. I thought it needs to be shown when third parties collect any data. Not I got the information from onesignal (which we use for push-notifications) that although they collect date the prompt is for their SDK not needed because they don't collect IDFA.
So in other words: Is IDFA the true reason to show the prompt and other data not?
Thanks
Andreas
Based on Apple's User Privacy and Data Use Website, it is said:
Starting with iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, and tvOS 14.5, you’ll need to receive the user’s permission through the AppTrackingTransparency framework to track them or access their device’s advertising identifier. Tracking refers to the act of linking user or device data collected from your app with user or device data collected from other companies’ apps, websites, or offline properties for targeted advertising or advertising measurement purposes.
In the simple way, IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) is required if you need to show more personalized ads. As far as I know, based on my experience I need IDFA to show more personalized ads in Google Mobile Ads SDK (AdMob). To achieve this, i have to show App Tracking prompt. When user choose to allow, the SDK can track user and show user more relevan ads. If user choose to not allow tracking, the ads are still showing but maybe less relevan and less personalized.
You have to know what data being collected by OneSignal, because in the end you have to write all them down in App Privacy section in App Store Connect if you want to upload your app to App Store. Since I have no experience using OneSignal, sorry i'm not sure what data they are collecting.
Google has good website documentation about App Tracking policy in iOS 14 to prepare iOS 14 app tracking policy. OneSignal also has Apple App Privacy Requirement.
It is said:
As OneSignal is a third-party to your app, you’ll need to ensure you are properly disclosing to your users the ways you are using OneSignal in regards to their data.
So basically, you have to disclose and write all data collected by OneSignal in App Privacy section when you want to upload your app to App Store. OneSignal collect Purchase and Product Interaction automatically by default. Maybe you use more data type, you have to disclose them.
OneSignal does not collect IDFA as of iOS SDK version 2.16.0*.
*IDFA and IDFV are no longer captured by the OneSignal iOS SDK as of version 2.16.0 and 3.0.0 beta cut 4. If you’re using an older version of the SDK prior to 2.16.0, you will need to disclose this as collected data.
According to the documentation, OneSignal doesn't require you to implement App Tracking prompt since OneSignal does not collect IDFA as of iOS SDK version 2.16.0. Yes, right! You no need to implement App Tracking, assuming that you are only using OneSignal in your app project.
But if you also use other SDK which needs IDFA to work best such as Google Mobile Ads, you need to implement it.
From iOS 14.5 it is mandatory to use ATT framework if we are sharing user info to the third party or using advertising in the app. Does it require to use of ATT if we are only using newrelic framework in our code.
As the following link points, "if the data is not linked with Third-Party Data for advertising or advertising measurement purposes", you don't need to implement AAT.
Our app was observed by Apple because we were tracking to third-party advertising libraries without implementing AAT. After removing this tracking (we didn't need it anymore) we were able to publish new versions of the app. We don't have issues for tracking to New Relic.
We have integrated Facebook iOS SDK and Firebase to our iOS APP.
Facebook SDK is being used for analytics and Firebase is being used to monitor for crashes and performance issues.
At no point, these SDKs are used to display any advertisements for the users and we do not share any personal details of users such as email address, age, address, etc. with these SDKs.
We are confused about whether we should ask for user permission for tracking or not under the new privacy requirements of iOS 14. Can somebody shed some light on this?
I want to get step count from wearable devices such as samsung gear fit bit etc from the healthkit api.
I want to know if it is possible to get data of all the wearables from the healthkit itself.
According to Apple, HealthKit provides a central repository for health and fitness data on iPhone and Apple Watch.
Health Kit works only for iOS and WatchOS devices.
If you need to integrate Fitbit data into your iOS App, you need to use their api.
According to Samsung developer page, Companion applications are not supported for iPhone.
I'm about to build a PWA, but it requires a use of GPS. I know Android supports that, but have no clue if that will work for iOS users.
Does anyone know whether iOS 12.2(current last version) supports GPS for PWA?
100% sure you can use GPS in iOS PWA
Abilities of PWAs on iOS
With the Web Platform on iOS you can access:
Geolocation
Sensors (Magnetometer, Accelerometer, Gyroscope)
Camera
Audio output
Speech Synthesis (with headsets connected only)
Apple Pay
WebAssembly, WebRTC, WebGL as well as many other experimental
features under a flag.
Limitations
Compared with native iOS apps:
The app can store offline data and files only up to 50 Mb
If the user doesn’t use the app for a few weeks, iOS will free up the
app’s files.
No access to Bluetooth, serial, Beacons, Touch ID, Face ID, ARKit,
altimeter sensor, battery information
No background processing
No access to private information (contacts, background location) and
also no access to native social apps
No access to In App Payments
No Push Notifications, no icon badge or Siri integration
Progressive Web Apps on iOS are here - Medium
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For anyone who wants a detailed review of PWAs on iOS 12.2, please check this article from Maximiliano Firtman on Medium (published on March, 26th - 2019). In short, Apple Web Kit team created a new framework for PWAs. It doesn't rely anymore on Safari. The main drawback I experienced is that updates through service worker seems not to work anymore as well as offline browsing when the page includes lazy loaded pictures.