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Next battle: getting Apple to give users more granular Location controls. Almost NO App really needs precise GPS. "within a mile" or city or zip code or other f

by tfoil2 9y ago

Next battle: getting Apple to give users more granular Location controls. Almost NO App really needs precise GPS. "within a mile" or city or zip code or other fuzzier locations should be fine for most apps. Users should have a better trade-off than exact or nothing.

weeks 9y ago
Android 1.0 had this via ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, unfortunately Android only recently got runtime permissions.
- matt4077 9y ago
  Apple still has it: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/EnergyGuide-iOS/LocationBestPractices.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40015243-CH24-SW1 https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Pe...
  - tfoil2 9y ago
    Right, but this is at developer discretion. I always want to see user-level control for privacy-enhancing features.
  - kartickv 9y ago
    No, you don't get to grant or deny access to a particular granularity of location, which Android has.
zkms 9y ago
As long as it's deterministic it'd be super great -- otherwise some devious programmer is just going to average out the random fuzz factor :)