Your iPhone maps and logs where you are and when you're there

Re:Your iPhone maps and logs where you are and when you're t... by sailfast on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @03:16PM (#6923627)

This has been "known" for a long time, but not known widely enough that I see it turned off when I ask my friends with iPhones about their data.

Typically the first thing I do is ask them if they want targeted ads pushed to them based on their location and they say "no" and I proceed to borrow their phone and disable everything buried in that menu under Privacy except (perhaps) the compass calibration.

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Re:Your iPhone maps and logs where you are and when you're t... by Steko on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @03:48PM (#6923839)

How clever of them to "bury" all the privacy settings in a Settings menu called "Privacy".

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Re:Your iPhone maps and logs where you are and when you're t... by mikeyouse on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @04:01PM (#6923936)

Up until iOS7, the ad-tracking settings were under:

"Settings" -> "General" -> "About" -> "Advertising" and not with the rest under "Privacy".

And then they helpfully used a double-negative when describing the behavior of the function, the default state was: "Limit Ad Tracking -- Off"

Apple are far too good with usability for either of those choices to be accidental.

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Re:Your iPhone maps and logs where you are and when you're t... by Steko on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @06:26PM (#6924733)

So why change it in iOS 7 if they are out to "bury" it and trick people?

"Apple is far to good to do X" is not a strong argument. They can and do make mistakes all over the place including their strongest areas.

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Re:Your iPhone maps and logs where you are and when you're t... by sailfast on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @12:22AM (#6958349)

I applaud the move to the "Privacy" context menu, however you must also consider that in addition to the "Advertising" menu at the bottom, there is also a "System Services" sub-menu located at the bottom of Location Services which delivers location-based ads, diagnostics and usage, frequent locations, and "popular near me" settings. These were not exactly called out before the iOS7 update, and nobody reads the ToS so I was disappointed to see it buried so deeply given the focus on privacy with the new menu.

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