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Is this only unique to Google? Serious question - I switched from google to iPhone exactly for the tracking reasons, but I would think that apple does have sim
by ir77 5y ago
Is this only unique to Google?
Serious question - I switched from google to iPhone exactly for the tracking reasons, but I would think that apple does have similar data - if you have weather widget it must ping something, same thing with Maps and that’s not even accounting if you allow gps to set your time zone or collect traffic data.
Are the cops not searching apple data? Is it just not public enough? Or is the data pretty poor even if they wanted to search but can’t.
- graeme 5y agoAccording to this from 2018, no, Apple isn't storing that data. At least if this release is comprehensive, and it seems to be. https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-data-collection-stored-request/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-data-collection-stored-r...
- dudus 5y agoIn theory this data is also available from carriers. But Google can keep record of your gps if you enable that. I think switching to apple is a bit of overreaction over this. You are able to disable location tracking on Google.
- ir77 5y agoYes, you can, but then you can’t use google assistant, not even to dial your favorite contacts and you constantly get harassed by google to enable it, this was also on a pixel phone. Google assistant couldn’t even make a call with the allo app, there were many reasons I switched. Actually I was always and iPhone user and tried pixel 2 for a few month and that was it.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoYou can restrict retention to three months as a compromise.
- tessierashpool 5y agoas far as GPS, you can just turn off location tracking on iPhone when you don't need it. they make it more work than it should be, but it's not hard, and it is amazing for battery life.