Yay! I almost always use lyft now because Uber only allowed the "always on/never" location options. Occasionally I'd be somewhere where Uber was the only option and it was annoying to go into location services and manually perform what should be a system function ...
iOS 11 Location Privacy: "Only While Using" is now always an option for users
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Re: iOS 11 Location Privacy: "Only While Using" is now always an option for users
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Screw any app that really thinks it needs my precise coordinates in the foreground, let alone the background. Turn-by-turn directions in maps is the only exception I've found in 10 years of iPhone use.
Apple's API don't discriminate with regards to precision. An app that shows nearby stores with a 1km radius precision requires the same level of permissions as an app that's trying to do 1m precision.
What about the desiredAccuracy property of CLLocationManager [1]?
[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corelocation/clloc...
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#43Re: iOS 11 Location Privacy: "Only While Using" is now always an option for users
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
I want to be tracked by Google. I went out of my way to turn it on in iPhone. My location is leaked to cell towers and by what wifi network I'm connecting through anyway, and I'd rather be able to figure out which cool restaurant I went to months after my visit to Vilnius is over. Plus my memory of my personal life is so unreliable, especially if I don't have any context, so if I'm ever in court I'd like to be able t…
I am not completely sure I understand what you want to accomplish, but I think you might find Moves ( https://moves-app.com/ ) useful.
> That being said, I refuse to share it with scummy companies [...]
Moves is owned by Facebook (one has to decide for themselves about FB's scummyness).
Re: iOS 11 Location Privacy: "Only While Using" is now always an option for users
#45Awesome! I never ever turn on location, but this one app requires it, and there is no way to set it to 'only while using', got annoyed and now I toggle it, not ideal. This is great.
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#46I like all the new things coming in iOS11, including this. I recently got my first iPhone and it's on iOS10. Do users like me get to upgrade just the OS on the same handset when they release iOS11? I haven't found the answer to this on some of the apple articles I have browsed.
Think carefully before upgrade. You can't downgrade after you upgraded and new upgrades are known to significantly slow down old devices. My iPhone 4S became unusable after iOS 7 and it's almost bricked with iOS 9. This is Apple way to force users to buy new phones. That said, they force developers to discontinue support for old iOS versions, so if you don't upgrade, you'll stuck with old apps and some might stop wor…
Apple doesn't "force" developers to discontinue support for older OS's. Apple does require that you at least have a build that supports both 32 and 64 bit versions.
You can target at least back to iOS 7 (https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/50410) that gives you support for phones back to the 2010 iPhone 4.
Apple also will allow you to download an older version of an app if the newest version doesn't support your hardware. I can confirm that this works back to devices that only support iOS 5 - like my first generation iPad from 2010.
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#47Do apps still have access to location history data? If so this is a nothingburger.
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Re: iOS 11 Location Privacy: "Only While Using" is now always an option for users
#48Do apps still have access to location history data? If so this is a nothingburger.
Exactly my question. Buried deep in location services is a frequently visited locations that apps have access to even if they only have access "only while using." http://www.iphonehacks.com/2016/10/how-to-turn-off-hidden-fe...
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Re: iOS 11 Location Privacy: "Only While Using" is now always an option for users
#49Do apps still have access to location history data? If so this is a nothingburger.
Could you provide a source for your claim that apps have access to location history data?
Re: iOS 11 Location Privacy: "Only While Using" is now always an option for users
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I want to be tracked by Google. I went out of my way to turn it on in iPhone. My location is leaked to cell towers and by what wifi network I'm connecting through anyway, and I'd rather be able to figure out which cool restaurant I went to months after my visit to Vilnius is over. Plus my memory of my personal life is so unreliable, especially if I don't have any context, so if I'm ever in court I'd like to be able t…
I am not completely sure I understand what you want to accomplish, but I think you might find Moves ( https://moves-app.com/ ) useful.
Or Life Cycle by Northcube. Kinda amazing.