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by soperj 2388 days ago
> I'm fine with Apple services having access.

Why?

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Some folks (myself included) by default prefer to segment their trust by vendor, not by application, since it tends to be aligned anyway. For example, as per GP I'm fine with any Apple app having location access because by buying the phone I made an implicit decision to trust the company. In contrast, Facebook's stuff can fuck off into the black hole of mistrust they dug for themselves.

Finer granularity of trust (+ve or -ve) occurs only in exceptional cases.

As with so much in life (and in tech), the greatest process efficiency occurs when you standardise a common case and manage by exception.

Because they provide a very real value. "Find my iPhone" for instance.
I would still like to have the ability to examine and toggle them each individually. Currently what I do is to turn on location services when I want to use a map app, and turn them back off once I'm done. But this is inconvenient.
what services would you like to keep location turned on then? Why do you trust them to have access all the time and at the same time you don't trust apple themselves for useful features like "find my phone"?