The scary thing iPhones know about your movements
If you own an iPhone, prepared to be alarmed – there’s a feature on the phone that’s collecting information on your every movement.
The safety feature in Apple’s own words “allows the iPhone to learn places you frequently visit in order to provide useful location-related information”, but many have pointed out it could actually be dangerous.
The feature called “Frequent locations” tracks all the places you’ve visited in the last month, showing such detail as the address and even the dates and times when you were there. And it doesn’t just track your most frequent locations, it is smart enough to deduce which location is your home, which is probably not the type of information you want getting into the wrong hands.
So the big question is how do you turn it off?
Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services (located at the bottom) > Frequent Location (located at the bottom) > Clear history > Slide the tab to turn it off.
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