IOS 26 is not expected to continue for the other two months, but developers and early adoptions can access the already upcoming features and experience a new liquid glass interface through beta release. When Apple rolls the iOS 26 later this year, it will enable modern fingerprinting protection, which is a privacy -based feature on safari that protects users from being browsed to the web, even when they are not using a private browsing tab. Mozilla’s open source firefox browser also offers protection against fingerprint.
iOS 26 Public Beta needs to enable modern fingerprinting protection
When Apple unveiled iOS 26 in WWDC 2025, the company announced that it would improve user confidentiality by increasing the advanced fingerprint safety feature in “all browsing through default”. Its feature was previously made for private browsing tabs as part of the IOS 17 in September 2023. It will be available for all safari tabs in September, when iOS 26 will roll out to all users.
modern protection of fingerprints on iOS 26 (tap to spread)
Fingerprinting companies have an unpleasant form of tracking used to monitor user activity on the Internet. Think of it as a digital fingerprint based on your device’s hardware, your third -party browser extension, custom font and specific settings.
This tracking format is designed to remain intact even after the browser history, storage and cache clean. To protect users, Apple provides random information and jointly changes details about hardware and software with trackers. This makes it difficult for data brokers and companies to make fingerprints for browser and track users.
Safari’s rival Firefox has also offered protection against fingerprinting since 2020. However, the open source browser has stopped companies from third -party requests that are fingerprint users online, which is a more aggressive approach to modern fingerprint protection.
It is worth noting that modern fingerprinting protection is not worthy for all tabs on Safari, the first of which is the first iOS 26 public beta who joined the smartphones last week. A gadget 360 staff member confirmed that the feature was working for private browsing tabs, but had to manually activate the settings app.
Users who want to turn on advanced fingerprinting protection can navigate to the settings app and tap Apps > Aperset > Advanced > Advanced tracking and fingerprinting > All browsing. This will enable this feature on Safari before the stable version of iOS 26 in September.
