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Android 1.0 had this via ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, unfortunately Android only recently got runtime permissions.
Apple still has it: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Pe...
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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.
If an app never needs more precise information than the country (say Spotify trying to decide whether they operate in your country), they don't need to request it. That also guards against bugs or security breaches in apps that try to do the right thing.
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Android 1.0 had this via ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, unfortunately Android only recently got runtime permissions.
Apple still has it: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Pe...
Do apps still have access to location history data? If so this is a nothingburger.
I really like Apples pro-privacy stance, in contrary to Google & Microsoft. Hopefully sometime soon Apple will also encrypt iCloud contents so data from non-american people (europe in my case) is protected against the US government prying eyes. Our data/privacy seems pretty well protected inside Europe, but in America we seem to have 0 privacy rights (America first...!)
>Hopefully sometime soon Apple will also encrypt iCloud contents so data from non-american people (europe in my case) is protected against the US government prying eyes. Also not American myself, but I think legally it should be quite the opposite: NSA and CIA can "legally" spy non-US citizens. It is illegal for them to spy US citizens.
Fantastic. Screw Uber for only having the option to always use or never use.
I wish there was a way to make apps only able to do anything when I use them and nothing when I don't use them.
I believe there is. Simply go to Settings and turn off Background App Refresh for that app.
I hope this comes to Android. I always thought it worked like this until someone showed me: https://www.google.com/maps/timeline?pb I see way more locations and rides than I actually navigated to with Maps. For most of the time, it is just installed. I now manually disable all location services.
I'm not saying it shouldn't be opt in rather than opt out, it should, but that's still a far way away from hiding it from the user.
PS: I'm a very big user of permanent location history and it's a feature I enjoy, I would actually like to make it more granular / precise with more regular updating of my position if possible.
Fantastic. Screw Uber for only having the option to always use or never use.
How can Uber do this when the OS doesn't have permission at this granularity?
Fantastic. Screw Uber for only having the option to always use or never use.
How can Uber do this when the OS doesn't have permission at this granularity?
https://www.imore.com/how-only-allow-apps-see-your-location-...
> Keep in mind that some apps may not show all three options. This is most likely because the developer has not yet implemented the while using this app option.