iOS and iPadOS protect your privacy by permitting you to adjust location permissions for specific widgets. Follow along with us as we show you how to manually adjust and manage widget location permissions on your iPhone or iPad.
With iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and later, you can grant apps your approximate location rather than precise GPS location information. Follow along with us to learn how to share approximate location with specific apps instead of the exact GPS coordinates of your iPhone or iPad.
When iOS & iPadOS 14 are released this Fall, the software updates will introduce a bevy of useful new features to the iPhone and iPad platforms. Perhaps one of the most intriguing features that seemed to slip under the radar are the new privacy-centric indicator dots that appear the top of the display when an app or service begins accessing your handset’s camera, location, or microphone.
This particular feature was so highly sought after that even the Android community quickly developed a way to port this feature to their handsets. Unfortunately for those running iOS & iPadOS 13 or earlier, a similar solution wasn’t available – at least not until now, thanks to a new and free jailbreak tweak release dubbed Quorra by iOS developer Lightmann.
One of the most popular things you can do with a jailbroken iPhone or iPad is spoof your location. A number of jailbreak tweaks let you do this, but perhaps one of the most simplistic of those releases launched last Summer and was called Relocate by iOS developer Nepeta.
After being on an extended jailbreak tweak development hiatus, Nepeta is now back with the community and has launched an updated version of the aforementioned tweak dubbed Relocate Reborn with full support for iOS 13. As you might come to expect, Relocate Reborn is just as easy to use as the original Relocate tweak, but it comes with a number of additional features that you may find extraordinarily useful.
Apple's upcoming Tile-like AirTags tracking accessory designed to be attached to easily misplaced items such as keys and wallets will apparently use a plethora of sounds to signal its various states to the user, including subtly indicating when an AirTag is nearby.
iOS leaker @blue_kanikama yesterday shared some additional details regarding AirTags, which is Apple’s rumored and unannounced Bluetooth accessory that can be attached to items like keys for tracking purposes.
Chances are you probably wouldn’t like it if someone you knew secretively began tracking your every move via Apple’s Find My service, but would you actually ever know if someone was? Apple unfortunately doesn’t provide any sort of straightforward notification to let you know when your handset is being tracked, but the jailbreak community now offers a solution for that.
Say hello to a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed Chusma by iOS developer Itaybre. Once installed, this tweak provides its users with real-time push notifications whenever anyone begins tracking your iPhone or iPad with Apple’s first party Find My service.
Location spoofing is one of the hallmark reasons that someone might be willing to jailbreak their device. In fact, it was one of the arguments we mentioned in the top ten reasons to jailbreak your iPhone in 2020. But finding reliable location spoofing tweak can be a challenge, and that’s why we’re particularly excited to share with you a new and free jailbreak tweak release called Location Faker by iOS developer Jonathan Seals.
As shown in the screenshot examples above, Location Faker is powerful enough to trick most of your system’s location-based services into thinking you’re somewhere you’re not. In this example, we’ve pinned our location somewhere in Japan and both the Maps and Weather apps appear to believe that this is our true location even though it isn’t.
One convenient feature of the Maps app is that it retains your search history. This is handy if you want to quickly view a location that you recently searched for. But if you want to remove your history to keep locations you search for private you can do this easily on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Learn how to set the Voice Memos app on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac to save all your new voice recordings with the current location name.
The United States government is tapping into smartphone location data, obtained from the mobile advertising industry rather than wireless carriers, to understand the movements of Americans during the coronavirus pandemic and track compliance with curbs on movement.
Apple is planning to implement a pair of interesting improvements to its Find My software on iOS 14, including augmented reality mode and new location triggers.