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by SilverRed 1716 days ago
Ultimately it doesn't really matter anyway. Unless you are the worlds most wanted criminal and Apple is working with the government to track you down via your turned off iphone. And in that case, you should have done your research to see this anyway.

If the average user blows past this message, it has no impact on their life.
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egypturnash 1716 days ago
From the referenced tweet thread about someone finding this out for the first time:

In other news I updated my phone to iOS 15 and put it down to charge last night. When I woke up it was hot, and my battery has gone from 100% to 15% since 7:30am. I gotta get off this ecosystem.

"My phone's battery life has suddenly become much worse" sure sounds like a major impact to me.

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SilverRed 1716 days ago
That has nothing to do with this change. It doesn't even seem like they had their phone turned off for this to be in play anyway. The most likely answer is that they hit a bug in the new update or that they placed their phone off centered on a wireless charger. I'm not sure why the general public should care about rare bugs in day one updates which get patched pretty quick anyway.

The turned off pings use an ultra low power mode similar to the airtags which should last months on a "flat" battery.

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AuthorizedCust 1716 days ago
> … placed their phone off centered on a wireless charger.

No. The phone got charged. That’s made clear in the quote. Something is draining it post-charge.

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AlphaSite 1716 days ago
IIRC after an update your phone starts to reindex everything so for a short while battery is impacted.
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halikular 1715 days ago
The Chinese, Russians or Belarusians wouldn't agree with you. There's plenty of people there doing "illegal things". Why should you care? You never know when something can become illegal in the future or the social equivalent of cancelling. You might have made a joke that's not okay in the future, criticized a leader, read a book, played a game, used a VPN...
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jacquesm 1716 days ago
Ah, a new version of the 'nothing to hide' argument. Thanks.
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crossroadsguy 1716 days ago
Yup. “Nothing to hide!”
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SilverRed 1716 days ago
This makes no sense. If you want to hide, just tap the warning and it gives you the option to turn off the feature.

So it works best for everyone. The average person can track their stolen phones now. And people hiding from the government can still turn it off.

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