Perform a Safety Check on your iPhone
Learn how to make your iPhone as safe as possible in iOS 16
Step-by-step Undertake an iOS Safety Check
The new Safety Check feature in iOS 16 is designed to do two things. First, it allows you to instantly cut ties – through data sharing, location-tracking, etc – with an abusive partner and help protect your personal safety. Second, it brings many of the checks you should perform regularly into one handy place, which you can run through in minutes.
Safety Check makes you far more aware of how much of your personal information you share with people, apps and devices on a daily basis, and it provides a series of simple steps to help you review what is shared and with whom. Here’s how to use it for the first time. Safety Check also reminds you to regularly change passwords and device PINs