[jeffbee]

The place where Apple is the most dishonest is in their scaremongering popup dialogs that constantly prompt me to re-authorize Google Maps, which I use daily, to access my location. They exempt themselves from this authorization by laundering Apple Maps location access through "System Services". iOS will never, ever pop up a dialog asking if you were aware that "System Services" has accessed your location on behalf of Apple 10000 times in the last month for the purposes of improving maps and providing traffic data to other Apple Maps users. Even if you, like me, never intentionally use Apple Maps, Apple silently accesses your location for these purposes. And even if you, like me, have been an intentional and fully-informed user of Google Maps for 15 years, Apple will still regularly urge you to revoke location data access from Google Maps.

To me, this seems really dishonest.

[HunterWare]

Huh, I use Google Maps daily too and have never had a popup since the first time I used it and picked "While using". I could have picked "Always", which worked too, but choose not to for reasons outlined in other posts here.

You can also easily turn off "Maps" tracking or limit it the same way if you choose.

I got to admit that I don't see the meat in this burger, so to speak.

[jeffbee]

If you go into privacy settings and try to disable the “system services” it will prompt you, twice, with a big scary warning about how nothing on your iPhone will ever work again.

[smaccona]

I can go into Settings -> Maps -> Location -> Never, and then when I use Apple Maps it says "Location Services is off" and can't figure out where I am. Is that different than what you are talking about?

[jeffbee]

Yes, that is different. Apple will still be collecting location data to "improve maps" and for other enumerated purposes.