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Re:Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re ... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday December 01, 2016 @09:41PM (#13085523)
In iOS, most apps request your location "Always", "While Using the App" or "Never". I had Uber set to the second; that option is now gone. It's always or never. Set it to never; this makes their app less usable, but that just nudges me to use Lyft, Juno, et cetera.
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Re:Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re ... by honkhonkpants on Thursday December 01, 2016 @09:55PM (#13085602)
This makes the app flat out not work for me. I just get blank panes top and bottom.

https://s11.postimg.org/by249fhsz/IMG_1459.png

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Re:Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re ... by mittsh on Friday December 02, 2016 @06:37AM (#13087807)
Yep, I've got exactly the same yesterday until Uber asked me to grant "Always" location tracking. Not only I dislike the forceful location grant but they had a bug that didn't prompt me for it until I rebooted the app twice :)
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Re:Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re ... by shostack on Thursday December 01, 2016 @10:51PM (#13085838)
Can you set it to never, set it to always while using it, and set it to never when the ride ends?
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Re:Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re ... by boulos on Friday December 02, 2016 @01:35AM (#13086586)
Yes. And I've been doing this for the past week (Uber integrates better with Concur, which we use for expense reporting). I finally reinstalled Lyft, but I just don't take personal rides that often.
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