So here's the deal. This afternoon I was in my house with WiFi turned on in an SE iPhone sitting on my desk plugged into a charging stand. I had been downloading some stuff from Apple Music. But I was using a browser, reading news, on a laptop. The SE was just sitting there, WiFi on (and WiFi calling is enabled) at best maybe running background refresh on news apps I had open.
So suddenly the SE signaled that a text had just arrived. I'm not a text user by choice, so that seemed odd. So I looked at the message and it was from my carrier, acknowledging I had paid my wireless bill. Which is true but I paid it like two weeks ago. And, the date on the text was old, the same date as when I made the payment.
So I hit the info button to see details and and underneath the Share My Location area it says
All my devices have specially assigned nicknames, none of them default to "Username's iPhone". The 4S doesn't have its WiFi turned on, it's upstairs and sleeping in airplane mode w/ wifi turned off.
So... huh? I went upstairs to have a look at the 4S to double check that. It was sitting there in the speakerdock asleep as usual. So I woke it up and punched in the passcode so I could look at its settings. WiFi was off. Airplane mode on. Bluetooth off.
So what does that message on my iPhone SE actually mean? I'm not intentionally sharing my location with anything. At least not in any way I can see. The settings on all my devices still have location services turned off. I don't understand why the SE says my 4S is sharing my location.
I don't see how it's sharing anything with anything else. ?! Is that just something left over in Apple's data mines from back when I used that 4S to restore settings onto a 5C and then finally from a 5C onto my SE? If so, why doesn't it say it's sharing my location from the 5C? The only difference I can see in the 5C and 4S situations is that I do use the 5C as a WiFi device fairly often. Also, the 5C has no SIM card except when I borrow the one from the SE temporarily to update the 5C's iOS, which I've only done once or twice.
I am confused... probably over a "nothingburger"...
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Here are details of my setup for anyone interested in helping me understand what's going on
I have an activated iPhone SE running 10.3.x and and the old iPhone 4S is running 9.3.5 but is just used as a WiFi capable device. The 4S does have a SIM card in it that could be activated for use on my line instead of the SE if I called the carrier to request it.
I do sync the 4S to iTunes on a laptop once in awhile so yes it accesses the net at that time if I'm also updating software or apps etc. Once in awhile upstairs the 4S asks me to verify my Apple ID, not the ID I use for iTunes which is different. I usually pick the "Not Now" response since a) I don't have WiFi turned on anyway and b) that 4S and I am upstairs at that point, and my other devices w/ password manager on them are downstairs.
The 4S asks for my Apple ID periodically because I still have at least Notes turned for iCloud on that device even though I rarely use Notes app on the 4S so rarely sync up to whatever Notes says in the cloud. The iOS doesn't seem to care that I don't revalidate the Apple ID when it asks and I decline. Probably since I'm not trying to use Notes.
As far as I know I have all manner of automatic anything turned off on that 4S. To me it's just a local server of music and podcasts and audiobooks that it acquired from a laptop iTunes library.
So suddenly the SE signaled that a text had just arrived. I'm not a text user by choice, so that seemed odd. So I looked at the message and it was from my carrier, acknowledging I had paid my wireless bill. Which is true but I paid it like two weeks ago. And, the date on the text was old, the same date as when I made the payment.
So I hit the info button to see details and and underneath the Share My Location area it says
"You are sharing your location from [nickname of my 4S iPhone]."
All my devices have specially assigned nicknames, none of them default to "Username's iPhone". The 4S doesn't have its WiFi turned on, it's upstairs and sleeping in airplane mode w/ wifi turned off.
So... huh? I went upstairs to have a look at the 4S to double check that. It was sitting there in the speakerdock asleep as usual. So I woke it up and punched in the passcode so I could look at its settings. WiFi was off. Airplane mode on. Bluetooth off.
So what does that message on my iPhone SE actually mean? I'm not intentionally sharing my location with anything. At least not in any way I can see. The settings on all my devices still have location services turned off. I don't understand why the SE says my 4S is sharing my location.
I don't see how it's sharing anything with anything else. ?! Is that just something left over in Apple's data mines from back when I used that 4S to restore settings onto a 5C and then finally from a 5C onto my SE? If so, why doesn't it say it's sharing my location from the 5C? The only difference I can see in the 5C and 4S situations is that I do use the 5C as a WiFi device fairly often. Also, the 5C has no SIM card except when I borrow the one from the SE temporarily to update the 5C's iOS, which I've only done once or twice.
I am confused... probably over a "nothingburger"...
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Here are details of my setup for anyone interested in helping me understand what's going on
I have an activated iPhone SE running 10.3.x and and the old iPhone 4S is running 9.3.5 but is just used as a WiFi capable device. The 4S does have a SIM card in it that could be activated for use on my line instead of the SE if I called the carrier to request it.
I do sync the 4S to iTunes on a laptop once in awhile so yes it accesses the net at that time if I'm also updating software or apps etc. Once in awhile upstairs the 4S asks me to verify my Apple ID, not the ID I use for iTunes which is different. I usually pick the "Not Now" response since a) I don't have WiFi turned on anyway and b) that 4S and I am upstairs at that point, and my other devices w/ password manager on them are downstairs.
The 4S asks for my Apple ID periodically because I still have at least Notes turned for iCloud on that device even though I rarely use Notes app on the 4S so rarely sync up to whatever Notes says in the cloud. The iOS doesn't seem to care that I don't revalidate the Apple ID when it asks and I decline. Probably since I'm not trying to use Notes.
As far as I know I have all manner of automatic anything turned off on that 4S. To me it's just a local server of music and podcasts and audiobooks that it acquired from a laptop iTunes library.