Use the built-in privacy and security protections of Apple Vision Pro
Apple Vision Pro is designed to protect your data and your privacy. Built-in privacy features minimize how much of your information is available to anyone but you, and you can adjust what information is shared and where you share it. Built-in security features help prevent anyone but you from accessing the data on your Apple Vision Pro and in iCloud.
To take maximum advantage of the privacy and security features built into Apple Vision Pro, follow these practices.
Protect access to your Apple Vision Pro
Set a strong passcode: Setting a passcode to unlock Apple Vision Pro is the most important thing you can do to safeguard your device.
Use Optic ID: Optic ID provides a secure and convenient way to unlock your Apple Vision Pro, authorize purchases and payments, and sign in to many third-party apps.
Keep your Apple Account secure
Your Apple Account provides access to your data in iCloud and your account information for services like the App Store and Apple Music. To learn how to protect the security of your Apple Account, see Keep your Apple Account secure on Apple Vision Pro.
Make account sign-ins safer and easier
For participating websites and apps, there are multiple ways to make sign-in more convenient and secure.
Sign in with passkeys: Passkeys let you sign in to website and app accounts with Optic ID instead of a password. Because a passkey doesn’t leave the devices where you’re signed in to your Apple Account, and because it’s specific to the website or app you create it for, it’s protected from leaks and phishing attempts. And unlike a password, you don’t have to create, guard, or remember it.
Use Sign in with Apple: You can use your Apple Account instead of creating and remembering user names and passwords for signing in to accounts. Sign in with Apple also provides the security of two-factor authentication, and it limits the information shared about you.
Let Apple Vision Pro create strong passwords: If passkey support or Sign in with Apple isn’t available when you sign up for a service, let Apple Vision Pro automatically create a strong password that you don’t have to remember.
For all your website and app passwords, there are many other ways to make sign-in safer and easier.
Replace weak passwords: If you create any weak or compromised passwords, Apple Vision Pro automatically identifies them for you to fix.
Share passkeys and passwords securely: Use AirDrop or shared password group to securely share a password or passkey with someone.
Use the built-in authenticator for two-factor authentication: For websites and apps that offer two-factor authentication, fill in automatically generated verification codes without relying on SMS messages.
Keep passkeys and passwords up to date on all your devices: iCloud Keychain automatically keeps your credentials up to date across your other devices, including Apple Vision Pro, iPhone, and more.
Manage the information you share with people and apps
Control app tracking: All apps are required to ask your permission before tracking you or your Apple Vision Pro across websites and apps owned by other companies for advertising or to share your information with a data broker. You can change permission later, and you can stop all apps from requesting permission.
Control what you share with apps: You can review and adjust the data you share with apps, the location information you share, the sensor information you share, and how Apple delivers advertising to you in the App Store, Apple News, and Stocks.
Review the privacy practices of apps: Get more info about an app in the App Store for a developer-reported summary of the app’s privacy practices, including what data is collected. For the apps that you download, review the App Privacy Report, which shows you how apps are using the permissions you granted them.
Protect your email privacy
Protect your Mail activity: Use Mail Privacy Protection to make it harder for senders to learn about your Mail activity. Mail Privacy Protection hides your IP address so senders can’t link it to your other online activity or use it to determine your exact location. Mail Privacy Protection also prevents senders from seeing whether you’ve opened the email they sent you.
Hide your personal email address: When you subscribe to iCloud+, Hide My Email allows you to generate unique, random email addresses that forward to your personal email account. You don’t have to share your personal email address when filling out forms on the web, or when sending emails.
Protect your web browsing
Use the internet more privately with iCloud Private Relay: When you subscribe to iCloud+, you can use iCloud Private Relay to help prevent websites and network providers from creating a detailed profile about you.
Manage your privacy, and help protect yourself against malicious websites: Safari helps prevent trackers from following you across websites. You can review the Privacy Report to see a summary of trackers that have been encountered and prevented by Intelligent Tracking Prevention on the current webpage you’re visiting. You can also review and adjust Safari settings to keep your browsing activities private from others who use the same device, and help protect yourself from malicious websites. See Control privacy and security settings for Safari.
To get personalized support for these practices, go to the Apple Support website (not available in all countries or regions).
To learn how Apple designs security into the core of its platforms, see the Apple Platform Security User Guide. To learn more about how Apple protects your information, go to the Privacy website.