To warn all Iphone users!

[Notsoyummymummy1]

Apple is watching you!

You just go to your iPhone Settings, then Privacy, then Location Services, then System Services where you'll see a very curious option to see your Favorite Locations. It is exactly what it sounds like: a map of the places you've visited most frequently, down to the (thankfully slightly inaccurate) street address.

Thankfully you can turn it off!!! Creepy!

I'm not turning mine off. I watched 'The Call' the other night, mine's staying switched on in case someone kidnaps me and stuffs me in their car boot.

It's big data? And very useful (and expensive) to other companies.

I think it would render the 'Find' function useless.
To the poster who asked how to increase storage - I think you can upgrade iCloud but the Apple Support pages will tell you more.

Just looked at where my phone think I've been - it's not terribly accurate and suggests my life is far more interesting than the reality

Also (sorry I am on an apple product love in at the moment) I am getting new hearing aids on Monday and I can control them through my iPhone (instead of having fugly plastic devices designed for people a lot older than me as they are the demographic for HA's) and I will be able to use the GPS in my phone to automatically set my hearing aids to a pre set which is optimal for where I am, ie swimming pool watching, football training, helping in school etc. That, to me, makes the phone tracking where I am a miniscule price to pay.

Mamaeulah storage is inbuilt in apple products and you can't buy more. 8gb, 16gb, 32gb or 64gb usually. If you look under settings at usage you can see which apps take up most space and when you plug it into iTunes you can see how much space your photos and music are taking up.

It won't affect your Find my iPhone LostinWales.

I have it all the tracking switched off and I can still find my phone if Toad has hidden it in the house.

If you are concerned about Privacy and security I recommend following the info THIS GUIDE. Favourite locations is only one of the ways Apple stalks you

Each time you install a new update Apple reset all your settings to the most permissive settings possible. I posted about it in Geeky Stuff when iOS8 came out.

You're missing the point. It's not that you've gone to the chippy etc. It's mass movement.
For example, Tesco introduced a club card and it gave that company all of your spending habits. This was nothing to do with vouchers. They wanted the customer data.

Thank you Ehric.

My builder gave his teen ds an iPhone and didn't tell him about the tracking thing so he could keep tabs on him when he was skipping school.

Apple can watch away. I'm very boring.

Yet again, someone panics upon discovering a completely non-secret detail of their technology.

If you turn it off, you will forever after be reminded by various Apps that they will work better when location services is on.

Apple knows where home is, because somewhere in your iTunes accounts, or your contacts, or the map app, you have entered that information. You did it without realising it would tell the conveniently interconnected apps and services and it was so long ago and seemed so normal that you don't recall doing it.

Google does the same to Android users. On a half day off, his phone told him off for not being at work. I don't think there's a little goblin sitting in the phone having discussions with all and sundry, though. It's the same location services that help sat nav and other mapping applications to work.

If you seriously don't want anyone to know where you are or what you're doing then it might be an idea to go live somewhere considerably less technologically advanced and do not have internet or mobile phone

do you think that we should just shrug and put up with being tracked monitored and profiled if we want to use modern technology?

I think modern technology is great and I think I should be able to use it without sacrificing my personal privacy or having my data sold to other companies for a profit.

Someone was on about this recently. Apparently if your other half has got an iphone and you're a bit suspicious as to their whereabouts you can use it to see where they've been.

Mine's not on. No idea if I turned it off to save power or never turned it on.

Apple can watch away. I'm very boring
again missing the point
Apple are not looking for salacious gossip, they want data, customer profiling, it's worth a lot of ££ to them, 'you are the product'

If only phone companies took stalking as seriously when its the other way around. T Mobile told me that all i had to do to block a number was move it to the blacklist option but it doesnt work.

Its not an Iphone i have Its a T Mobile Energy (was £50)

the customer is just a cash cow Darkesteyes

OP'S I posted the wrong link THIS IS THE RIGHT ONE

This has all the info about iOS8 privacy and security.

However the "find my phone" features can be very skilfully in abusive controlling relationships and, for instance child sex exploitation.
Eg controlling boyfriend kindly gives girl a shiny iPhone and he knows where she is ( and probably who she's with" every moment of the day.
That is scary.

Theas i agree

It's just location tracking. There's many practical uses for it like GPS, finding a local pub, or getting ratings on the nearest store. If they are using your information at all, it's to get a statistical average over the span of millions of users. They don't particularly care what you, as an individual, are doing.

You're on the internet right now, which means that your IP is traceable to your whereabouts. Your address can be easily looked up, and your files poked and prodded into should a hacker feel the need. A cell phone is not too much different than what's happening at your home computer.

There may be algorithms that cater their advertising to you, and if the police are called they will be able to trace over to your exact location. But otherwise, individually, you have nothing to worry about.

Also, as it's been mentioned, you have CCTV everywhere. It's already Big Brother in England, what's a cell phone knowing your location going to do?

now I feel compelled to go to interesting places just so Apple don't think I'm boring.

I had planned to go to Tesco and the dry cleaners on Monday. Think I might go to Machu Picchu instead.

I don't really give a shit, find it more useful than harmful to have on as I use apps that use gps to track my runs and cycles, sort my photos, tag my stays location etc.

We get bombarded everyday now with focused advertising as our likes and dislikes are tracked via Facebook, Google etc. Everytime we do an internet search the page we've been on is logged somewhere.

So Apple knows I've been to Asda....ooh scary.... And the know where my home, as does every other online store I've bought stuff from

Get a grip!!!!

I find it hard to give a shit about tbh-I wonder if they are also monitoring all the texts & watsaps I hav sent saying I think IPhones are shit... Hope they're not coming to get me.