Use the Overcast app to see how your favourite podcasts track you
Podcasts can track your activities. Use the Overcast podcast player to see which podcasts are doing this
Apple is committed to increasing privacy and decreasing tracking through a range of measures. One of these is to clearly display which apps collect information about you and what they do with it in the App Store, so you can avoid the worst apps. What you may not be aware of is that podcasts can also track you. Apple’s Podcasts app shows no information about privacy or tracking, but Overcast for iphone, a third-party podcast player, shows that podcasts have plenty of tracking capabilities. Overcast shows which podcasts track you the most, what information they collect and what they do with it. It is up to you whether to allow them.