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Tile has been complaining for some time that their products are flaky because new iOS privacy measures prevent them from accessing location data while running i
by eli 6y ago
Tile has been complaining for some time that their products are flaky because new iOS privacy measures prevent them from accessing location data while running in the background, even if the user sets the app permission to "always allow."
https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/02/apple-breaking-promises/ https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/02/apple-breaking-promises/
- sitzkrieg 6y agodestroy your competition by means of public apis! its great
- novok 6y agoYeah it used to be more reliable until a few OS updates ago, so I definitely believe tile on this front.
- patentatt 6y agoUsed to be more reliable, but also consumed ~10% of my battery on any given day. It's a trade-off
- FearlessNebula 6y agoAndroid does the same if anyone's wondering
- bagacrap 6y agoAndroid has a (functioning?) always allow setting.
- Spivak 6y agoI mean this doesn't seem that bad? I share my location with my SO with Google Maps and every so often my phone pops up a thing that's like "hey you wanna keep doing that?", I tap yes, and move on. I do the same with Tile. I've never had flakiness with Google's implementaion on iOS. What does Tile need in the background that keeps it from working?
- yarcob 6y agoApple's own apps don't ask if you want to keep letting them access your location.
- bagacrap 6y agothat link says that "always allow" doesn't exist (needs to be reinstated)