The iPhone and iPad seem to be storing location data about your travels using cell tower information. Whether you believe that Apple is secretly spying on you or just storing the locations of cell towers for some purpose, such as speedier connections to said towers, if you don’t like it, you now have an option. Ryan Petrich, a renowned jailbreak app developer, has released a free little utility called “untrackerd” that runs in the background and continuously cleans stored location history data.
You will, of course, have to have a jailbroken iPhone or iPad to install the app from Cydia, but if you’re not happy about the possibility of your iPhone or iPad’s location history being accessible, then head to Cydia now and install the 37 KB app from the BigBoss repository for peace of mind.
[via 9to5Mac]
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