Comment by Symbiote
4 years ago
Strong privacy would be not sending that information to Apple at all.
(Do iPhones really send the current location to Apple?)
4 years ago
Strong privacy would be not sending that information to Apple at all.
(Do iPhones really send the current location to Apple?)
Maps does for sure, it’s how they build traffic measures. They need to know how many (relatively) are using specific routes, but have no need to know who.
Another case is WiFi mapping. Your phone helps build a database of WiFi network locations to improve your location accuracy, again they don’t need your personal identity to build that.
I agree. I thought iPhones do theirs on-device.
iPhone doesn’t need to do this as long as the system integrity is there because you can only install signed apps from them anyway so they already know what you’re running.