These days, data trackers cleverly use unsolicited marketing messages to gather identifying information like your IP address to create a custom profile. Thanks to the secret tracking methods, they can find out whether you opened the email or not, at what time you checked it and how many times you looked at the message. With iOS 15, Apple aims to address such unwanted emails with a thoughtful feature called "Mail Privacy Protection". If you want to keep your web activity private, let me show you how to enable Mail Privacy Protection in iOS 15 on your iPhone.

While remote images that load when an email is opened are one of the key components of tracking, advertisers use invisible pixels to collect information about the user. When a person opens the email, the code in the pixel collects the required information and sends it to the company. That's how email tracking uses remote images and invisible pixels to create a customized profile of the user's online activity across all websites.

When you open the Apple Mail app for the first time in iOS 15, you'll be prompted to protect your email activity. But if you missed it or skipped it, you have the option to enable/disable Mail Privacy Protection manually. Just follow the steps below:

2. Now scroll down and select Mail.