Wow. Crazy that iOS does this. Hopefully it never leaves the phone. Or you think though
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Apple Maps Alerts International Travelers of Self-Isolation Guidance
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Wow. Crazy that iOS does this. Hopefully it never leaves the phone. Or you think though
It doesn’t. it’s for map suggestions Only. Doesn’t leave your phone.
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My argument wasn’t about quarantine it was about the fact that Apple is maintaining logs about your locations. On the phone or not. They are tracking you even when locations services are turned off
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Pretty sure it doesn't happen when those options are disabled in location services or location services overall are turned off.
The "Significant Locations" feature can be turned off manually, in the same Settings sub-panel where you can review the data. I also see a "Clear History" button in the same sub-panel.
When I look at the panel for it on my iPad, it states:
Significant Locations are end-to-end encrypted and cannot be read by Apple.
Something that has never made sense to me is why different countries have different recommendations on quarantine length, we are all fighting the same virus right so why is it that some countries see 10 days as sufficient to determine if you are infected or not while others require 14. Is it guess work involve, or are the ones that still require 14 days just sticking with older recommendations.
To follow up. Imagine your taking a dump. Your Apple Watch vibrates and tells you to stop reading the latest hot topic on Macrumors. Wipe your ass and go back to work. Plus you get credit for standing up.
Pretty soon health apps will track your bm’s. Make suggestions on diet determined by information collected
Damn there goes my watch.
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It specifically says Significant Locations are end-to-end encrypted and cannot be read by Apple. It's for personal services like geo-fencing Homekit automation and stuff like that when it needs to know you have gotten home as opposed to a random coffee shop (which it does not do). That is still not the same thing as Maps always tracking you — this isn't Maps, it's system services doing things encrypted and on device that you have asked it to do by specifying a location significant enough to build automation or trigger any other type of action. This is nowhere near tracking like you are alluding to, though.
I don’t think you read my post carefully enough, nor perhaps the posts I was replying to.
Well, I read your's just fine and the one you were replying to was mine, so I know what I wrote. There are two different types of information listed in system services -> significant locations; My Places and History. My Places is covered in the post you just replied to (I only have Home and Work) and as I stated before it is mostly for personal services (give me directions home, turn on the AC when I'm close, etc.). Second is History, and unlike what you had been alluding to in your posts and to replies of those posts, it's not really loging places you have been, but places you have either taken photos at, added as a location you'll be going to in a calendar event, or if you have asked Siri for directions somewhere (it remembers so it is available quickly in case you ask again). This is important because I have been to a great deal more places than that are listed in my History list. It doesn't track where you go, but it remembers if you asked it to remember something about a location.
So if you went somewhere and specified what wifi you want to use while you were there, it remembers the location so that it can set that up for you. If you took a photo of something on a walk, it remembers where you took the picture but (and this is the distinction) not the path you were walking. That is a very important distinction to make. I say this because you posted this info as a counter to my reply that Maps doesn't always track you — and I stand firm it doesn't — the system remembering locations and you being tracked are very different things. It has nothing to do with Maps, the question that was asked was answered (Does Maps track you all the time? No it does not, and it does not have a setting to even allow that.).
Alluding to an App tracking you and keeping history, and a communication device that remembers where it's been is two entirely different propositions. Tracking means someone else is paying attention and keeping tabs — my device (an extension of me the user when the data is locked on-device) is not tracking me.
Your reply was stating it is end-to-end encrypted. It’s not really relevant to me just pointing out that our devices do keep tracking info of where we’ve been.
The notifications about visiting an airport isn’t really that relevant to maps. It’s just that Apple has chosen to identify it as being a maps notification. Probably because it would freak people out more if it were anything else.
You’re seemingly trying to have an argument with me when there isn’t really anything we are disagreeing about. Just kind of having a slightly tangential discussion.
I only mentioned that because your first post indicated a belief but uncertainty that the info stayed on device, and was just reiterating that not only was it kept on device but it was e-2-e encrypted so Apple doesn't have access to the information. the conversation was whether you were being tracked by an app from Apple and I reiterated it wasn't. There was more context to the information when you consider what the person we were replying to was asking.
I absolutely agree. It is just a User-facing UI for location information.
I'm not in the least. With all due respect, I just thought your reply to the question of being always tracked by the Maps app was a bit misleading (it didn't directly answer the commenter's question and added new information) without clarity and context. There is nothing wrong with a "slightly tangential discussion", it's kind of what these forums are for, but your comment was sort of "hit-and-run" style, like here is something that casts doubt on what you are talking about, but it's not really what you are asking about. The answer to "Is Maps always tracking your location?" is correctly "No". Just like "notifications about visiting an airport isn’t really that relevant to maps", the OS remembering important locations isn't relevant to the conversation "Is Maps always tracking your location?" because that's not about Maps either.
I wasn't looking for an argument, and you are right, we are in agreement generally — the content you presented was right, the context it was presented in was not and could be misconstrued. I was just adding a clarifying footnote.