News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The New Foursquare. Parent comment

Re:The New Foursquare by _mikz on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @02:16PM (#8143970)
I've stopped using 4sq when they forced to check in through Swarm. Swarm was constantly monitoring me and eating the battery. At least in Foursquare app you could turn of the 'Radar'.

Good bye 4sq.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The New Foursquare by schrodinger on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @03:26PM (#8144353)
FYI you can go into iOS preferences -> General -> Background App Refresh and turn off apps that you don't want to run in the background. I've done that with Swarm with no problems, and you can do it with other apps too (Facebook?)
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The New Foursquare by TeMPOraL on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @07:38PM (#8145497)
Eating the battery you say? Ok, this is enough. I just uninstalled both apps. I don't need stuff I don't use competing with Ingress over power.

sigh

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The New Foursquare by pavel_lishin on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @02:17PM (#8143977)
You can turn off the tracking in Swarm as well.
[ Parent | on HN ]