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You have no privacy protection when using the products Applu is probably as strong in your hands as you think – so miniat least in the case of iPhones 11 ProA security expert from KrebsOnSecurity managed to find out that despite disabling all location services in the System Services section, the phone is still collecting some location data, instead of disabling the main location services switch. According to AppBut that's okay. 

The company immediately reported the strange behavior of the system, which it only recently discovered. Applu, with the proviso that according to her it is a certain security risk or minia minor error that contradicts the protection policy Applu. As mentioned above, a system running in iPhonech 11 Pro (and possibly other models) collects certain location data from users despite manual deactivation of all options in the phone settings and apparently uses it for other processes. However, this behavior was not Applu be marked as standard, which is, however, due to the fact that users have Applu over their privacy, which also includes location services, complete control is, to put it mildly, surprising. After all, when deactivating all options, the user expects nothing more than a complete shutdown of the service. However, a complete shutdown will only occur if the top Location Services switch is deactivated. In other words, this means that if the user wanted, for example, to allow the use of location only for maps and disable everything else, they would not be able to do so, because in addition to maps, location data will also be used for other things, but their use cannot be deactivated.

Excerpt from pages Applu dedicated to deactivating location services:

You can turn off Location Services at any time. To do so, go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services and turn off the global Location Services switch, or set the switches for all items that use location to Never. To turn off Location Services for all websites, set the switch to Never. Safari. You can turn off location-based system services by tapping System Services and turning off all location-based system services. Location Services for HomeYou can turn off the pod at any time in the settings HomeUnder or in the Home app on the paired device iOS or iPadOS device.

The active location services while deactivating everything was caught on video by the security company, which it then published on YouTube. When watching it, pay particular attention to the space in the right corner of the iPhone, in which an arrow informing about their use will appear even after deactivating location services.

Since this is a really very strange behavior that we in the editorial office did not manage to induce with older iPhones, many foreign media have already decided Apple contact him and ask him for an explanation. However, at the time of writing this article, no official statement was available. However, it can be expected that a certain explanation is needed Apple will not forgive to reassure its users in this regard. Although it may not be (and probably is not) anything serious, such behavior of the system as such simply raises doubts about 100% privacy is inspiring.

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