These are the Facebook privacy options for Android 10 and iOS 13

Facebook is introducing new privacy features for Android 10 and iOS 13 users. So if you're using an Android device, once you update to Android 10, you'll have the option to allow which individual apps you want to access your exact location when you're using the social network, but even when you're not.

Facebook is aware that this can be confusing for those who already use the app's background location settings, a dedicated way to control whether the exact location of your device is shared with platform even if you are not using the app.To address the issue, the company has introduced a couple of options. For example, as long as your Android device's location setting is set to "all the time" but Facebook's background location setting is turned off, the social network will not collect your precise location data when you're not using the app. .

In addition, Facebook confirmed that background location settings in Android 10 will be broken by reminding users to check their device's location settings. For its part, Apple is expected to launch iOS 13 within a few weeks. In his case, the most important privacy change is that once the new version is installed, you will start receiving notifications about when an app is using your exact location in the backgroundand how many times an application has access to that data.

You will not only receive a simple notification, but also a map of the location data an app has received and an explanation of why the app uses that type of location information.Imagine getting these notifications from every app that wants to access your location. It is also important to note that iOS 13 comes with a new additional option called “allow once”,that allows the application to access the precise information of your phone's location only once. We'll soon find out how these privacy changes will affect iOS users and whether they're as annoying as we think.