New iOS 11 Settings Will Stop Apps From Tracking Your Location (theverge.com)

An anonymous reader quotes The Verge: Apple is giving users the option to enable much stricter location rules with iOS 11, according to MacRumors. The company began this effort last year by adding a new option to iOS 10 that grants apps access to your location only while they're actively being used. But this "while in use" setting is up to developers to actually enable. The vast majority of popular apps did integrate that new feature. Others, however -- Uber chief among them -- still force iPhone users to choose between always or never providing location data. The latter choice breaks the functionality of an app like Uber, leaving customers with really only one option. Apple seems poised to eliminate this false choice in iOS 11 by making the "while in use" restriction available for every app.

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Somehow this will be spun to bash Apple

[Anonymous Coward]

This is excellent news because it restricts one avenue in which apps can violate user privacy. However, because Slashdot users generally hate Apple, there will be a knee-jerk reaction to spin this into some way to criticize Apple. It is fascinating to watch the delusional hate of Apple, even when they do something good like improving user privacy. This is a good thing for privacy, and if anyone but Apple did this, Slashdot readers would applaud them. However, because this is Slashdot and the story is about Apple, prepare for delusional hatred of Apple.