Wanna know how bad Apple is? We built a location based app on iOS.

Our GPS location functions were 100% app-side. Meaning when our app needed the user's location for a function, that location was never sent to our servers. On-device code handled that location. We never saw it. Ever.

We also never logged locations anywhere. Not even on user's device. Any GPS positions were deleted the second the function finished using it.

What does Apple do? They start showing our users the screen below.

A screen with all logged location pings, like we were spying on users. Except we weren't even logging past location usage. We couldn't produce this logged data if a gun was put to our head. The only way for those pings to have been logged is if APPLE logged them. Either on device, or even worse, on APPLE's servers.

So we build the most responsible location handling we know possible.

And Apple sends our users a scary alarm, smearing us, posing as some safeguard of GPS data. All while APPLE was the one logging this location data, and therefore putting it at risk. Or using it for who knows what else.

We never built another iOS app after that.