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There's a simple way to send a message: Set the location services setting to "Never" and just enter addresses for now (copy and paste from Maps if it's easier).
by mortenjorck 10y ago
There's a simple way to send a message: Set the location services setting to "Never" and just enter addresses for now (copy and paste from Maps if it's easier).
The important thing is that their analytics will pick this up, and if enough users do it, hopefully point toward re-enabling "While using."
- walterbell 10y agoOr don't accept this app update. If/when Uber stops the current app version (with 3 privacy settings) from working with their server API, switch from Uber to a competitor. Apple can also change their policy for ride-sharing apps, to force "While Using" as an option, or block Uber's update from the App Store. Remember that it was only after apps abused the contact database, that permissions were added by Apple to give users control over apps. Apple can step up now and define a new policy that responds to these new abuses of user choice, within the ride-sharing app category. This is one of the few benefits of Apple's walled garden review of apps. Perhaps we will eventually thank Uber for pushing the boundaries of etiquette, forcing Apple to regulate Uber and their peers.
- gchokov 10y agoHow can you not accept the update, when they do not even write release notes?
- walterbell 10y agoI've learned the hard way to time-delay app updates from over-reaching companies. A week or two is usually sufficient for major issues to surface on HN. You're right - it would be better if Apple allowed users to rollback to the N-1 version of an app. That would send a real-time signal from users to app vendors, rather than slow complaints via press and social media.
- newscracker 10y ago> it would be better if Apple allowed users to rollback to the N-1 version of an app. Apple should allow users to revert to any older version. There are so many apps that become worse over time, and it's only after an update that the shortcomings are found, with no way to remedy the situation. But Apple really doesn't care about such things on the user experience front. I have provided Apple feedback on this before. The thing I like in this case is that iOS explicitly warns the user when an app requests for location services permission for use while the app is not running.
- mi100hael 10y agoIt's just another reminder that iOS is a walled garden in which you have no freedom.
- whatgoodisaroad 10y agoYou can also just switch it back to "Never" when you're done with your trip.
- davidu 10y agoThis is totally impractical.
- whatgoodisaroad 10y agoMaybe it isn't practical, but at least it's what I did today.
- StanislavPetrov 10y agoPut your phone in a Faraday cage for a few minutes after you get out of an Uber. Cases cost less then $10 on Amazon.
- newscracker 10y agoAnd risk being out of reach for everyone else too for that duration? And what if the person forgets to take it out of the case after the five or so minutes? I believe this will cause a lot of panic among people who're trying to reach the Uber rider, especially if the rider is a woman. There have been instances of assault and worse by drivers in some places.
- r00fus 10y agoYeah, that's a dark pattern. It should default to not tracking me after the ride is done.
- kevinchen 10y agoYou can also continue to call Uber rides with location using Apple Maps, even if you don't give the Uber app location permission.