@kazani: what iPhone private browsing actually does vs what people assume

Private browsing on iPhone mainly protects local privacy, not anonymity online, according to this explainer. Private mode generally stops the browser from saving history, search history, cookies, and form data on the device, and cookies do not persist between sessions. It does not change what websites or the internet provider can see, since websites can still see the IP address and the provider can still see that traffic comes from the device. The article also notes that some tracking does not rely on cookies, so private tabs alone do not stop it.