iOS 27.2 developer beta 1 changes Apple’s App Tracking Transparency prompt for users in five European Union countries. Apple says ATT now supports an alternative expanded prompt and annual re-prompting, with the alternative prompt required in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Romania.
App Tracking Transparency is the iPhone permission system that asks whether an app can track a user across other companies’ apps and websites. The iOS 27.2 change concerns the presentation and timing of that request in the specified markets, not a reversal of the underlying permission choice.
- An expanded alternative prompt: Apple will use a different ATT prompt for apps distributed in the five named countries.
- Annual re-prompting: the system can ask a user again once each year under the new approach.
- A regional scope: Apple’s notes identify France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Romania, so the rule should not be assumed to apply everywhere in the EU.
Apple’s iOS and iPadOS 27.2 release notes describe the change directly. Developers should read that scope carefully before changing their own consent flows, because ATT requirements and the system prompt are not the same thing as an app’s privacy policy or legal obligations.
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Apps do not get permission merely by displaying the request. A user’s selection still determines whether the app can request access to the advertising identifier for cross-app and cross-site tracking. That remains the core of Apple’s ATT framework.
For iPhone users, the practical result is a revised tracking request and the possibility of a yearly follow-up. The user can still make a choice about tracking; the beta changes how Apple presents that choice in these specific countries.
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