On: iOS 11 Location Privacy: "Only While Using" is now...

[tfoil2]

Next battle: getting Apple to give users more granular Location controls. Almost NO App really needs precise GPS. "within a mile" or city or zip code or other fuzzier locations should be fine for most apps. Users should have a better trade-off than exact or nothing.

[weeks → tfoil2]

Android 1.0 had this via ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, unfortunately Android only recently got runtime permissions.

[matt4077 → weeks]

Apple still has it: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Pe...

[tfoil2 → matt4077]

Right, but this is at developer discretion. I always want to see user-level control for privacy-enhancing features.

[_qjt0 → matt4077]

No, you don't get to grant or deny access to a particular granularity of location, which Android has.

[zkms → tfoil2]

As long as it's deterministic it'd be super great -- otherwise some devious programmer is just going to average out the random fuzz factor :)