[jeromegv]

You seem to be simplifying things a bit too much. Apple doesn’t keep track of where your device has been. Your iPhone knows but it’s not being sent to Apple. Google has been shown to know this data even when you disable as many location services as you can.

[tokyodude]

Apple knows which is how they can display every devices location on icloud.com including "last known location" which means the location was previously sent to Apple.

[xenadu02]

That requires you to opt-in to the “Find My iPhone” or “Find My Friends” feature which are explicitly designed to locate the phone.

If you don’t enable those things (which are not automatically enabled) then Apple does not know the location of your phone.

[AsyncAwait]

> Apple doesn’t keep track of where your device has been.

The iPhone certainly does keep track of where it has been. There was even a scandal about it a few years back. It may not upload it to Apple's servers yet, but that's only a matter of shifting strategy and a software update away.

[robertAngst]

Until one day you agree to an update....