Control personalized ads on the App Store, Apple News, and Stocks - Apple Support (original) (raw)

Apple-delivered advertising helps people discover apps, products, and services while respecting user privacy. To deliver personalized ads, Apple uses information about you to serve ads that are more relevant to you. You can learn more about the information Apple uses to serve advertisements to you while protecting your privacy.

If you don't want to receive personalized ads, you can choose to turn off the Personalized Ads setting on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, and Mac. This may not decrease the number of ads you receive, but the ads may be less relevant to you.

You can also turn off location-based ads on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, and Mac.

Turn off personalized ads on your device to limit Apple from using information to serve ads that may be more relevant to you.

  1. Go to Settings > Privacy & Security* > Apple Advertising.
    In Apple Advertising Settings, turn off Personalized Ads
  2. Turn off Personalized Ads.

*In earlier versions of iOS and iPadOS, this setting is called "Privacy."

  1. Choose the Apple menu  > System Settings, then click Privacy & Security. In macOS Monterey or earlier, go to System Preferences, click Security & Privacy, then select the Privacy tab.
  2. Select Apple Advertising.
    In macOS System Settings, turn off personalized ads
  3. Deselect Personalized Ads.

If you grant the App Store or Apple News access to your device location, Apple’s advertising platform might use the current location of your device to provide you with geographically-targeted ads on the App Store and on Apple News.

You can turn off geographically-targeted ads.

  1. Go to Settings > Privacy & Security* > Location Services.
    In iOS settings, you can block location-based ads.
  2. Either turn off Location Services or select App Store or News from the list and set Allow Location Access to Never.

Learn more about privacy and Location Services in iOS and iPadOS.

*In earlier versions of iOS and iPadOS, this setting is called "Privacy."

  1. Choose the Apple menu  > System Settings, then click Privacy & Security. In macOS Monterey or earlier, go to System Preferences, click Security & Privacy, then select the Privacy tab.
  2. Select Location Services.
    In macOS, block location-based ads.
  3. Deselect either Location Services or News.

Published Date: November 15, 2023