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Relevant HN discussion for context https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13085098

Related screenshots:

* Uber requesting location access: https://twitter.com/joeduvall4/status/872007928844345344

* Apps using background location now displayed more prominently: https://twitter.com/ow/status/872145515386982400

Next battle: getting Apple to give users more granular Location controls. Almost NO App really needs precise GPS. "within a mile" or city or zip code or other fuzzier locations should be fine for most apps. Users should have a better trade-off than exact or nothing.

Android 1.0 had this via ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, unfortunately Android only recently got runtime permissions.

Apple still has it: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Pe...

Right, but this is at developer discretion. I always want to see user-level control for privacy-enhancing features.

No, you don't get to grant or deny access to a particular granularity of location, which Android has.

As long as it's deterministic it'd be super great -- otherwise some devious programmer is just going to average out the random fuzz factor :)

The banner for apps using location while in background seems like an iOS bug...

If it isn’t, Apple should give an option to turn the banner off.

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