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>I appreciate that it's the only major nav app that doesn't constantly record my position in the cloud.

What do you mean? It certainly stores your location history, albeit it's not as precise as Google Maps.

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Your location history is stored on the device and never uploaded.

You're telling me that it pulls maps without tell Apple where it is? If it tells Apple where it is, then the location history exists, almost certainly at least for fraud / security uses.

Yeah, Apple needs a start and end to create the route, but they don't need to store your location on their servers to do that.

You misread what I said. Obviously your phone has to tell Apple where it is, but Apple does not record that information after the fact.

I believe all requests made to the Apple Maps service does the same thing Siri requests do and cycle through brand new unique identifiers every 15 minutes, making it so Apple can’t identify requests made over more than a few minutes as coming from the same device (and it includes no other identifying information).

Not that I’m concerned about this “vulnerability,” but surely for navigation trips longer than 15 minutes it would be easy to correlate requests to a single user, given that each request probably needs to include the origin and destination and those are probably unique to one user at any given time.

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