Protecting your personal data while simultaneously using it to power real-time services is all in a day’s work for iPadOS 14

While iMacs and MacBooks have a green LED to show their built-in cameras are active, iPads don’t. But iPadOS 14 displays a green dot when any app is accessing the camera, or orange when the mic alone is in use. The dot normally appears to the left of the icons at the top right; in views that hide these, such as the Camera preview or a FaceTime call, the dot appears in the corner.

When you allow an app to access your photos, you can now select which ones. It’s reassuring to know it won’t automatically see new pics, but we’d like to be able to select an album. In Settings > Privacy > Location Services, when you allow location access for an app, you can turn off Precise Location to use an approximation. This option also appears whenever an app requests your location. There’s only one switch for all websites in Safari, though.