"Significant Locations & Routes: Your iPhone and other devices where you sign in to iCloud with your Apple Account will keep track of places you have recently been, how often and when you visited them, and the routes you take to get there, in order to learn places and routes that are significant to you. Your Significant Locations & Routes are synced between your devices using end-to-end encryption and cannot be read by Apple. They are used to provide you with personalized services, such as building better Memories in Photos, and to enable you to share your Visited Places and your Preferred Routes and Predicted Destinations (where available) to support features like predictive route suggestions."
Correct about there being some privacy concerns. We did a post on that a while back. The feature is helpful though for finding hidden trackers. We should’ve clarified that in the post.
This is a great post and something everyone should pay attention to for their physical safety!
Thanks!
“Optional but helpful: Significant Locations → On (improves detection accuracy).”
- no, you definitely want to turn this OFF. This allows apple to track you more.
Although, Significant locations are supposed to be E2EE, so I'm not sure that it can be used to track you. https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/location-services/
"Significant Locations & Routes: Your iPhone and other devices where you sign in to iCloud with your Apple Account will keep track of places you have recently been, how often and when you visited them, and the routes you take to get there, in order to learn places and routes that are significant to you. Your Significant Locations & Routes are synced between your devices using end-to-end encryption and cannot be read by Apple. They are used to provide you with personalized services, such as building better Memories in Photos, and to enable you to share your Visited Places and your Preferred Routes and Predicted Destinations (where available) to support features like predictive route suggestions."
Thanks, Tate.
Correct about there being some privacy concerns. We did a post on that a while back. The feature is helpful though for finding hidden trackers. We should’ve clarified that in the post.