A. Lee Bennett Jr.Can someone explain to me how the hell a restaurant app knows when I pass a store and sends an #iOS #notification inviting me to stop in even though I’ve only given location permissions when using the app?
#Popeyes you are about to get $𝓱¡†listed.
Tom Sheppard@leebennett I’m curious to know what the Background App Refresh setting is for that app.
@Tom I had the same thought, but it seems to not be doing any actual in app background processing. It’s not listed in the background refresh page, so no switch to toggle.
Hococoder@leebennett someone at Apple actually posted about this not too long ago. https://hachyderm.io/@rmondello/116592517077473324
Ricky Mondello (@[email protected])
Have you ever gotten that notification from Uber when you land at a major airport that encourages you to open the app to book a ride and wonder how they figured out your location? The first time I saw this I wondered who betrayed me and shared this data with them. It turns out that it might be nobody. iOS can publish notifications for an app based on a geographic region and that app doesn’t know the wiser unless and until you interact with it. I figured that if I didn’t know this, some of y’all might not. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/unlocationnotificationtrigger