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You can know how many of your friends are nearby without knowing who they are.
by shuckles 3y ago
You can know how many of your friends are nearby without knowing who they are.
- chatmasta 3y agoThe text beneath the toggle is "Allows others to detect you are nearby to help prioritize their suggestions." This implies it's broadcasting some beacons containing my phone number to nearby devices, which can listen for those beacons and compare them with their contacts list.
- shuckles 3y agoYeah, appears that way: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/journaling-suggestions/ https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/journaling-sugge.... The caveat is that devices store counts not identities, but it does seem like some notion of identity is broadcasted.