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Your iPhone Needs a Facial
Your iPhone Needs a Facial explores the often-neglected privacy considerations of the iPhone’s default settings. Specifically, the zine investigates the central question: How does Apple’s interface design and default settings create an illusion of privacy while simultaneously enabling extensive data exploitation? The zine adopts ‘privacy facial’ as a metaphor to make privacy issues more approachable and actionable for iPhone users by framing privacy maintenance as self-care. It links individual privacy concerns to broader socio-political considerations about data ownership, consent, and corporate power. It treats the iPhone as a technological device and a site where power relations manifest through deliberate design decisions.
- Jessica Avery