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iOS 14 has an option to share location without being precise - pretty much like sharing zip. A lot of apps ask for location and I deny and enter my zip. In fac
by 8ytecoder 6y ago
iOS 14 has an option to share location without being precise - pretty much like sharing zip.
A lot of apps ask for location and I deny and enter my zip. In fact it was one of the major reasons I switched years ago.
- _-___________-_ 6y agoI don't understand why this wasn't there from the start - the majority of apps asking for location service just want to figure out what city/state/country you are in, and giving them access to your precise location just seems unnecessarily dangerous.
- Nextgrid 6y agoBack when the feature was originally introduced (I guess in the iPhone OS 3 era?), surveillance capitalism and spyware wasn't as widespread and it then took them a while to catch up (I guess there are backwards-compatibility concerns?).