Comment by sgammon
10 months ago
Worth noting that you need iCloud active in the first place to opt-out of this feature, so it is still opt-in, since it is only ever defaulted to being on for users who proactively signed into iCloud.
10 months ago
Worth noting that you need iCloud active in the first place to opt-out of this feature, so it is still opt-in, since it is only ever defaulted to being on for users who proactively signed into iCloud.
This is not true.
Ah yes, you're right. I spoke to soon. I just checked on the latest Beta simulator and, sure enough, it is checked, with a fresh install and no iCloud account.
At least that proves the service is accessible anonymously (i.e., without an identifying iCloud token)