Apple has pushed out its latest iOS 4.4.3 update for iPhone and iPad, bringing with it less location data storage and some additional bug fixes Published on May 5, 2011
Are Apple’s snooping days over? Not quite. But the latest iteration of iOS 4.3.3, which Apple has now released, does reduce the amount of location data your device stores.
‘Location-Gate’ hit just a under a week ago with allegations that Apple was essentially spying on its customers by secretly storing their location data on both their iPhones and iPads.
Steve Jobs insisted this wasn’t the case, claiming ‘we don’t track anyone.’ The actual reason Apple was using your location data was, as it happens, for your own good.
Here’s the official line:
‘The iPhone is not logging your location. Rather, it's maintaining a database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers around your current location, some of which may be located more than one hundred miles away from your iPhone, to help your iPhone rapidly and accurately calculate its location when requested.’
Well, Apple’s iOS 4.3.3 makes some improvements to Apple’s location storing services. For starters the new update fixes a trio of bugs related to the database of location information on iOS devices.
But that’s not all, according to Pocket-Lint, the new update also ‘reduces the size of the cache, no longer backs the cache up to iTunes, and deletes the cache entirely when Location Services is turned off.’
Which is quite a turn around when you consider that previously the iPhone was storing up to a year’s worth of personal location data.
There’s no other notable features present in the update, which makes us think this is merely a gesture-update that’s designed to show that there’s nothing nefarious about Apple’s location data collecting policies.
TagsApple | iOS 4.3.3 | iPhone 4 | iPhone 5 | Steve Jobs | iPad | iPad 2
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