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> only Apple's phones and tablets send your location to Apple every time you use GPS Impressed they can do that when I’m using offline mapping in an area with
by Doctor_Fegg 6y ago
> only Apple's phones and tablets send your location to Apple every time you use GPS
Impressed they can do that when I’m using offline mapping in an area with no mobile signal.
- lern_too_spel 6y agoIt gets stored on the device and sent when you are back online. On an Amazon or Google Android device, you can use a truly offline mapping app that doesn't send data to anybody. Even better, you can set that as your default map provider if you like. To sibling commenter: my comment is based on a correct understanding of Location Services, not on anything to do with Find My Device. You don't have to put words in my mouth, especially when I have already explained it using my own words elsewhere in the thread.
- shagie 6y agoI believe that the other poster's comments are based on a misunderstanding of the technology behind the "find my device" feature. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/06/the-clever-cryptography-behind-apples-find-my-feature/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/06/the-c... gets into the crypto side of it. So yes, information about location is being sent to Apple. No, it's not useful for Apple and it is encrypted in a way that Apple can't get it the underlying data. > Apple returns the encrypted location of the laptop to your iPad, which can use its private key to decrypt it and tell you the laptop's last known location. Meanwhile, Apple has never seen the decrypted location, and since hashing functions are designed to be irreversible, it can't even use the hashed public keys to collect any information about where the device has been.
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