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DNSCloak is an excellent app capable of using these files, but it's a bit of a pain to get the blocklists onto your device. **Services such as updates, App Store, and Apple Pay will probably be blocked by this list.** You can remove entries manually, but this is tedious, so I recommend just temporarily disabling the blocklist when necessary.\n\nHere's a vague [overview of what each domain is for](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210060).\n\n## Why?\n\nUsers should have more control over the telemetry sent by their smartphones. Not only that, but I've seen a large improvement to my device's battery life while using these blocklists.\n\n## Usage (iOS)\n\n- Download DNSCloak, or another app capable of using DNS blocklists\n- Navigate to [releases](https://github.com/cedws/apple-telemetry/releases)\n- Copy the desired blocklist to your clipboard (`cloaking-rules` is recommended)\n- Download Textor, or another app capable of saving text to Files\n- In Textor, create a new file and paste the blocklist\n- Remove domains for services you wish to use (such as Apple Pay)\n- Navigate to the DNSCloak settings and select the saved blocklist\n\n## Usage (macOS)\n\n- Add desired hosts to block to `/etc/hosts`\n\n## Notes\n\n* This is not an exhaustive list. There are hundreds of domains contacted on a regular basis by Apple devices, with no consistent naming scheme or obvious purpose. If you want to block all domains, you should use a whitelist.\n\n* Some domains may not be related to Apple. I've had to filter out the domains from my own blacklist log manually. However, some domains such as `weather.com` are contacted by built-in applications (Weather). Entries like these belong in this repository.\n\n## Contribution\n\nIf you come across any other domains, please submit a PR! Add the entries to the `blacklist` file then run `make` (you'll also need Python 3 - use the Poetry package manager). It can take a few minutes because it has to make a lot of DNS queries.\n\n## Similar Projects\n\n- https://gitlab.com/intr0/AppleBlock\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fcedws%2Fapple-telemetry","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fcedws%2Fapple-telemetry","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fcedws%2Fapple-telemetry/lists"}