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Leverage the best techniques provided by Apple to build apps with maximum privacy for your users. This book explores not only the how-to steps for implementing privacy in your apps, but also answers workflow questions about what information you actually need.
Do you need full access to a device´s contacts? Do you need to have location services enabled in the background constantly? This book explains how to selectively enable services and how to make apps that can continue to function even when the user refuses to share data. Understanding the needs of your users and the expectations of Apple in reviewing your app will make better apps.

You´ll see how to ensure that you make it through the App Store review quickly and without the need to go back and develop privacy protocols that should have been in place to begin with. Not only is developing with privacy in mind good from a moral standpoint, but it also helps you create leaner apps that set themselves up for less potential data breaches and issues later on in distribution.

While a basic understanding of app creation is expected, no deep understanding of Cocoa(Touch) or Swift will be required as code will point to the Apple Documentation.

What You´ll Learn

Important APIs and how they affect privacy

Work with the camera, Siri, maps, and other common iOS services and hardware

Effectively allow notifications and advertising without affecting privacy
Who This Book Is For

App builders interested in creating apps that respects their user´s privacy.

Users willing to learn about the technicalities behind apps that respect or not their privacy

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Chapter 1: Why is Privacy Important?

ú Privacy is about People
ú Build Trust

ú Do not save too much

Chapter 2: Common API Elements

ú Descriptions strings

ú Authorizations Alerts

ú Revocation of allowances

ú Review on the App Store

Chapter 3: Photos and Camera

ú Full Access

ú Geolocation

ú Camera-Only access

ú Pick only one or a few pictures.

ú Face recognition with Vision

Chapter 4: Location and MapKit

ú User Location

ú Core Location
ú Geo coding & decoding

Chapter 5: Contacts

ú Only the user can opt-out

ú An intent to talk to your app

ú Siri Shortcuts learning about your habits

Chapter 6: Calendar and Events

ú Reading all your calendars

ú The special Birthday calendar

ú EventKit UI still needs access

Chapter 7: Notifications

ú The different kind of notifications

ú Interactive notifications

ú Background tasks

Chapter 8: Advertising

ú AdvertisingID

ú No Cross Site Exchanges in Safari

ú Remember iAd?

Chapter 9: Health and Fitness

ú HealthKit
ú Data aggregation

ú Gathering on the Apple Watch

Chapter 10: Microphone and Audio

ú Recording from the Microphones
Be quiet if you use Audio in the background

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Based in Düren, Germany, near Cologne, Manuel Carrasco Molina, better known as StuFF mc, started programming with his C64 at age 11 in 1987. He entered professional software development in 1997 and has been developing since. He founded the first French podcast about Apple in 2005 and dove into iOS development at the launch of the SDK in 2008, after spending the first half of his developer career in the Microsoft technologies. He ran ObjCGN.com/SwiftConf.com from 2012 to 2017 which he left in good hands at a previous employer. When he´s not developing for the Apple Platforms Stuff is an involved activist and/or local politician (4 years at the city council) in the matters of environment (Hambach Forest) and refugees - he spent a few times in east european countries helping his brothers and sisters. Stuff´s mother tongue is French, but he also speaks fluently German and Spanish, while speaking a bit of Dutch, Arabic and Italian.

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