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You're kidding but what about find my? I suspect things like location services and find my are reasons apple has gotten in the way of turning off bluetooth and
by m463 2y ago
You're kidding but what about find my? I suspect things like location services and find my are reasons apple has gotten in the way of turning off bluetooth and wifi on their devices.
With wifi they get crowdsourced location data. with find my they get crowdsourced device and airtag location and relay.
(and ios nfc can't be turned off afaict)
- nozzlegear 2y agoIsn't Find My E2E encrypted? I don't think Apple can get any useful information out of that beyond "user uses Find My." I'm not an expert though, I could be wrong.
- m463 2y agoApple makes money through these crowdsourced services. They depend on connectivity, so apple makes it tougher to turn them off. to be more clear: - location services uses wifi to gather information about wifi access points to add to their wifi<->location database - location services can use wifi to find your location - location services can use bluetooth in the same two ways with ibeacon - find my can locate your devices using wifi/bluetooth - find my can locate other people's devices using your devices