Built in Apple Apps
Built in Apple Apps
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BENEFIT RECEIVED
Location-based services. For example, an app might use your location data and location search query to help you find nearby coffee shops or theaters, or your device may set its time zone automatically based on your current location.
DATA REQUIRED
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WHERE IT'S GOING
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Location Services uses GPS and Bluetooth (where those are available) along with crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower locations to determine your device’s approximate location. Your Apple Watch may use the location of your paired iPhone if it is nearby.
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Apple Servers.
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HOW YOUR DATA IS HANDLED
If Location Services is on, your iPhone will periodically send the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple, to be used for augmenting this crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower locations.
SOCIAL
30% of your network has enabled this setting.
BUILT IN APPLE APPS