Apple Shares New Developer Tools That Will Help Users Delete Restrict And Export Icloud Data

Following other news where Apple is complying with the GDPR, today the company outlines tools to help developers manage user data that is stored in iCloud.

Starting today, Apple will supply tools to developers to allow users to both export and then delete user data stored in iCloud. This will be done by new native App and Web APIs.

Apple will also be giving developers tools to restrict data. This means that when a user temporarily disables their Apple ID, no new data can be sent to iCloud, and the user’s account will be locked.

While these new tools will be primarily be targeted at Europe, it will be helpful to all users around the world, especially with the whole Facebook scandal going down right now.

Apple is launching new privacy controls in May to comply with the GDPR. Earlier this week, the company launched iOS 11.3, which has a whole host of new privacy screens to let users know what their data is used for in most first-party apps.