Safari 13.0.4
Although it’s included of the iOS, iPadOS, and macOS updates released yesterday, Apple’s Safari web browser and the WebKit engine that powers it operates under its own development team. This results in Safari sometimes being treated like a slightly separate app in terms of how updates are handled and announced.
In this case, Apple’s WebKit team is continuing its quest to improve security and privacy in Safari, with the announcement that the latest version bundled with iOS 13.4, iPadOS 13.4, and macOS Catalina 10.15.4 will now allow for full third-party cookie blocking, thanks to enhancements to Apple’s AI-based Intelligent Tracking Prevention feature.
This ultimately means that web sites will have a much harder time tracking where you go around the web. The WebKit team has been adding these capabilities incrementally since 2017, but this marks the first time they’ve achieved full protection, and Safari is the first mainstream browser to offer this unprecedented level of privacy.