Comment by Wowfunhappy
2 years ago
I have received these messages for e.g. the weather app, but never Find My. Find My seems to be immune.
2 years ago
I have received these messages for e.g. the weather app, but never Find My. Find My seems to be immune.
"Find my".app (for lack of a better designator) doesn't use the location information in the background. Weather.app does use location services in the background. Weather (like all user space apps) can also be restricted to only getting the approximate location rather than exact location.
Find my system is part of the operating system itself - not an application running in user space. It can be disabled in the "Share My Location" settings in Location services in settings and in System Services "Find My iPhone" because that part of is not a user space app running but rather part of the kernel.
Yes, but isn't that an example of Apple giving special privileges to their own product? How would Tile go about doing this?
What functionality that Apple has are you suggesting be extended to Tile?
Access to the U1 chip? They can do that.
Show up in Find My? Let's get some standards for secure and authenticated transmission of item location to other parties.
Have Apple's phones automatically detect 3rd party BTLE products and report their whereabouts to a 3rd party? This is a privacy nightmare. Side note - why Apple's phones? How about a patch to Android too?
Something else?
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