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I agree with most of what you're saying, but I can't swallow that "iOS is the Privacy OS" UNTIL they make it way easier to control "Background App Refresh" and
by codeisawesome 7y ago
I agree with most of what you're saying, but I can't swallow that "iOS is the Privacy OS" UNTIL they make it way easier to control "Background App Refresh" and also turn it off by default. I've always been concerned about apps that have this turned on and also access to my Media on iPhones.
- JimDabell 7y agoSettings > General > Background App Refresh There’s an option to toggle between Off / Wi-Fi / Wi-Fi & Mobile Data for all apps, and there’s a list of every app that uses background app refresh with a toggle button next to each one if you want finer-grained control. How can that be made way easier?
- codeisawesome 7y agoSorry, "way easier" was perhaps the wrong term, I meant to say it should be easier to discover the fact that this impacts Privacy in a major way - and hence it should be in Settings -> Privacy along with Photos and everything else. I just feel like, iOS gives this great sense of control and so it's easy to become complacent without realising there is this backdoor of sorts to a lot of info (you can infer location based on IP collected from Background App Refresh for example).