How to remove invasive app data without erasing the phone or iPad

With YouTube, iOS does erase all data when you delete the App. But when you reinstall the App, and sign back into your YouTube account, YouTube, which has cached your account data on their servers, reinstalls it to the App. The same thing would happen with the Kindle app and your Amazon account, or the Google Drive App and your Google accounts.

Your account data is kept and stored on the company’s site for the service you made the account with. They are the ones putting your data back when you use that same account on a new install. It is not Apple caching your Youtube account data - it is YouTube.

Well, before you sign up with/for anyone/anything, you best read the entire Terms of Use and Privacy Policies of the particular company; most will use/mine your data for various purposes. Unfortunately, that is not illegal in the US, so you need to be selective. Personally, I do not do anything Google because of their corporate policy (which includes Youtube) and Facebook (or any other social media).

As for your question, I am not sure, but would assume that in order to get rid of everything, you may have to reset the device.

gaganodi wrote:

Even so, my issue continues to be with Apple. I switched from Android to iPhones for this exact reason. They are allowing misbehaving companies like Google (and all the copy cats) To abuse user trust.

So, because you think Google is a misbehaving company, you switched to a phone with an operating system controlled by... Google? On an Android phone, there is never a way to prevent Google from having access to your information. Ever.

There is no issue with Apple, you are directing your anger towards the wrong company. You need to address Google or whomever. The iOS can only erase the info that is made available to erase, not the info that is being kept on Google servers.

Any of these apps where you sign in to a service within the App has the ability to track, cache and save your activity with your account with them, even if through their app or a web browser. You need to read terms of use and privacy policies carefully with any and every online service you create an account with.

When Yahoo, became Oath Inc. in a merger with AOL and Verizon, I deleted my Yahoo account rather than accept their completely no-privacy privacy policy. The Oath services privacy policy is an abomination of the very word “privacy”. Google backed away from similar policies several years ago, based on user backlash, but Google remains one of the more intrusive online service providers, IMO. I do have gmail and google voice accounts, but try to use them for little else (I don’t use google drive for anything). I won’t touch Facebook with a 50ft pole.

gaganodi wrote:

Exactly the opposite I said I switched from android to iPhone’s for that reason.

My apologies for misreading.