I saw this today in an article concerning Apple products and their active location tracking of users:
But he added that the information is collected anonymously and the devices give users controls for disabling the features.
OK. Can anyone tell me how to turn off active location tracking?
You can't turn it off.
You have nothing to be concerned about.
Google does the same with Android phones as do many other companies for marketing purposes.
No one is monitoring your movements or selling your whereabouts to those that may do you harm.
This is not new or unusual.
No need to lose a minute of sleep over this.
I do not think of myself as being paranoid. I am not looking over my shoulder to see if "they" (whoever "they" are) are following me.
I understand that every time I make a call on my iPhone the location of the cell tower handling the call is logged. I understand that every time I access the internet my location is logged. Does this bother me? Of course not. If I were writing the software to handle these kind of interchanges I would also log those locations. Am I still making calls and googling when out? Of course. Am I losing sleep over this? Of course not.
But it offends my sense of privacy to know that Apple is actively tracking my locations and purposefully storing that information as compared to having the information stored as a side-effect of something else. Is there any real difference? No, I don't think so. But I think we all want at least the illusion of privacy.
The article contained the following paragraph:
--> In addition to giving Apple customers the ability to turn off all location features with one "on/off" toggle switch, Apple requires applications to get explicit customer approval when it asks for location information for the first time.
So I was asking where the "on/off" toggle was.
You can read this article at: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/137432/20110423/apple-we-must-have-comprehensive -user-location-data-on-you.htm#ixzz1KXi3qJjw
Settings/Location Services
Slide the button to OFF.
OK. Thanks.
Will I set it to off? Probably not, but it is nice to know that it is there.
Thanks.
Just remembered this old article from Gizmodo.
So if we turn off location tracking then what about find the my iphone function ?
Michael Superczynski wrote:
Settings/Location Services
Slide the button to OFF.
This will NOT stop the tracking that has been overblown in the news. You can do a Google search and see many articles explaining this.
There is NO WAY for your to stop this tracking.
There is NO WAY for your to stop this tracking.
I believe Airplane Mode would stop it. Of course, powering down would as well, although niether are very practical.
Sorry. To be more clear, there is no way to stop while still using your iphone as a phone/mobile device.
I thnk you all need to watch this video, and read the article. Apple is saying in the iOS5 none of this exist any more, but who is to really say.
You're responding to a thread that is many months old and was discussing an entirely different issue.
How to turn off Apple location tracking?
