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Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You've Been
Hiding in not-so-plain sight, deep within the depths of your iPhone's settings (seven layers deep, to be exact) is a level of location tracking that very few iPhone users are aware of and probably won't feel comfortable with.
Sure, many of us know that our iPhone generally tracks us when we use certain apps to enable it to share personalized information like the local weather, coffee shop recommendations, and more.
But in a quick survey I ran with some friends, not one person (out of dozens of people that I surveyed) knew where or how to navigate to this specific screen that I'm talking about here. It's called the Significant Locations list.
The Significant Locations list shows a minute-by-minute route history of my exact whereabouts in every location I've been over the past few years.
(Score: 5, Touché) by NateMich on Tuesday March 12 2019, @10:15AM (1 child)
Only an iPhone user would call something "hidden" when it's right in the settings on the phone itself.
For future reference, hidden is when you have to perform some unusual action in order to reveal the item.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @11:14AM
"an iPhone user would call something "hidden" when it's right in the settings on the phone itself."
Apple already knows this. So when they want to 'hide' something they simply stick it in the settings. Most users won't notice it. But if someone complains that it's 'hidden' now they have plausible deniability and they can say 'but it's right in the settings'.