app-privacy-report-viewer
Local viewer for App Privacy Reports in iOS 15
iOS 15 introduces a new feature in Privacy Settings called Record App Activity.
When enabled, you can save Save App Activity to dump the data to a newline-delimited json file of the form App_Privacy_Report_v4_<time>.ndjson
e.g.
{
"stream": "com.apple.privacy.accounting.stream.tcc",
"accessor": { "identifier": "com.google.ProjectFi", "identifierType": "bundleID" },
"tccService": "kTCCServiceAddressBook",
"identifier": "BE766661-F44C-46F8-A3E5-258FAE68D603",
"kind": "event",
"timestamp": "2021-06-09T14:19:48.270-05:00",
"version": 3
}This tool is a simple app to import these files and display them in a web interface running on your local computer.
To get started:
- Ensure
denois installed (it's easy to install) - Run
deno run --allow-net --allow-env --allow-read=.,`which deno` --allow-write=. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/johnspurlock/app-privacy-report-viewer/v0.8/src/app.ts - Open the locally-running web app at http://localhost:8015
- Drag and drop your
App_Privacy_Report_v4_<time>.ndjsonfile into the web app
If you encounter an error with the deno run command (which constrains to minimum os permissions) on your particular os/shell, try a less-restrictive alternate:
deno run --allow-net --allow-env --allow-read --allow-write https://raw.githubusercontent.com/johnspurlock/app-privacy-report-viewer/v0.8/src/app.ts
Once imported, you can filter by filename, date, type of access, and bundleId (app).
For example, filter to all activity from the Apple Podcasts app: http://localhost:8015/?bundleId=com.apple.podcasts
The data never leaves your machine, it's stored locally in a sqlite db called reports.db in your run directory, so you can open it for custom queries with any standard sqlite client like DB Browser for SQLite.
All processing is done on your local machine (should be able to run it offline after first launch), and the code is available here on github for full transparency.