Scary iPhone Facts: Your iPhone is Tracking you
June 30, 2014 | Security
Your iPhone gathers a lot more location data than you may have thought.
It’s a setting called “Frequent Locations”; as you go about your daily routine, your iPhone makes note of where you are and how long you’re there. When it starts detecting patterns, it marks the spot as one such “frequent location.”
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It assumes workplace location based on where you are during the day and your house address based on where you are at night, and it tracks various repeated locations regardless of time: friends’ houses, favourite restaurants and the like.
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Here’s how to see what your iPhone has identified as your frequent locations, as well as how to disable it.
Step 1
Go to Settings and tap on Privacy.
Step 2
Tap on Location Services
Step 3
Scroll to the very bottom and tap on 'System Services'
Step 4
Finally, here we are. Tap on “Frequent Locations.”
Step 5
Here it presents us with a list of what it considers our “frequent locations” — wherever it records you as spending a lot of time. Let’s check out the New York locations.
Step 6
Without my telling it to, my iPhone has identified home, office, several friends’ houses, and other places frequented. If we tap on a specific address... it tells us when we were there and for how long.
Step 7
To disable this data-collection-happy feature, flip the off switch in your Settings.
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