Changes in geoservices took after Apple was accused of spying on users iPhone. While obtaining information about the location of devices provides the user agreement, the company acknowledged that a long сторидж of information about the base stations of cellular networks and Wi-Fi-hotspots, the iPhone, as well as the operation of the system even after you disable the settings geoservices iOS, caused by software errors. They promised to fix the new version of the mobile platform. Released update iOS reduces the сторидж device a database of cellular towers, and when you synchronize your smartphone with your computer to prevent its copying to the hard drive. If the user disables the geolocation services in settings iOS, the database will be removed from the device. IOS 4.3.3 platform designed for smartphones and the iPhone iPhone 3GS 4 (GSM-only version), tablet PCs iPad first and second generation, as well as multimedia player iPod touch third and fourth generation. For owners of the CDMA-version of the iPhone 4, serviced U.S. operator Verizon, Apple has released the updated platform independent with an index of 4.2.8, also fixes bugs in the geoservices. Ars Technica notes that even after installing iOS 4.3.3 iPhone will remain in memory information about the base stations of cellular networks and Wi-Fi-hotspots, which could accumulate for months. To remove these data from the device after the update iOS should at least momentarily disable geoservices in system settings. Public interest in what happens with geodata in smartphones, began in late April, when two researchers published the information that has long been known to specialists: Apple device with a cell module is written in memory of the data on the movement of the device and transmit them to the company. Information about the location of the device manufacturer sends not only the products Apple. The scandal of "spying» iPhone has forced researchers to examine more closely smartphones competing platforms – Android and Windows Phone, 7 which, as it turned out, also collect information about the location of vehicles to maintain a database of mobile stations and wireless access points.
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