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Is it not a glaring privacy and security hole that turned-off devices can still be located? Maybe it's just me, but if I own an internet-connected device and I
by lopkeny12ko 2y ago
Is it not a glaring privacy and security hole that turned-off devices can still be located?
Maybe it's just me, but if I own an internet-connected device and I turn it off, I expect it to be off. That an iPhone's definition of "off" means "you can't use it but other random people's iPhones in the vicinity can still connect to and ping it" rubs me the wrong way.
- jen20 2y agoIt is not. If you don’t want your device to participate, you ca elect not to enable Find My during setup. The vast majority of people would rather a their couldn’t just turn off a stolen phone and render it unlocatable.
- rainsford 2y agoAlso the location is only accessible to you, the owner of the device. Not Apple or "random other people's iPhones". The engineering and thought that went into the whole thing to be useful but also privacy protecting is actually pretty impressive, and exactly the kind of thing we should be encouraging companies to do if we care about privacy. Especially since as you point out, you can still easily turn it off at any point if you want.
- anderiv 2y agoThe off-but-still-on functionality can be turned off, and the OS does disclose that by default the device is still findable on the power off screen.
- FaggotBait 2y ago[flagged]
- tzs 2y agoOther phones in the vicinity don't connect to yours. Yours uses Bluetooth LE to periodically broadcast some data. Other phones in the vicinity relay that data along with the approximate location to Apple.