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Rusty Corgi ➡️ Furcationland Apr 13, 2025

So, on an iPhone, if you allow an app to have background location access it'll just nag you nonstop until you give in and disable access to it?

How is that not an anti-competitive measure to promote their own Find My network? Like I get the security side of it, but as a user I should be able to permanently whitelist an app to have background location access.

People defend the decision by saying it's a security measure, which kind of baffles me because 1) no it's not, it's clearly a way to hamstring apps like Tile from using location access, and 2) at that point you're just saying that you deserve to have Apple treat you like you're a complete moron with your own device.

#iPhone #iOS #Apple

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Kay Ohtie 🔜 FWA Apr 14, 2025

@Rusty Android it usually will just pop a notification every so often but it's easily swiped away. It tends to just be a reminder that "hey, you gave this app background access fyi" in case you didn't realize. Definitely isn't a "you should only use our find" thing because some food apps even ask for that permission, and it's super infrequently shown. I only ever see it like maybe monthly at most.

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Rusty Corgi ➡️ Furcationland

@KayOhtie I only get silent notifications for apps I've given accessibility access to, and even those notifications seem to have cooled off.

Putting silent notifications is such a huge improvement over Apple's nonsense. Then again, does iOS even support silent notifications? Their notification system seems pretty awful.