I find the tone of this post to be more than a little irritating, but this article pretty much explains what’s going on with the “secret tracking file”.
I find the tone of this post to be more than a little irritating, but this article pretty much explains what’s going on with the “secret tracking file”.
The basic message of the article is that the stored db of locations is used by the CoreLocation Framework data and is thus accessible via that API. Therefore, STFU.
I’m not convinced. A quick scan of the CoreLocation Framework documentation shows methods for getting the current location and heading, monitoring changes in location/heading, monitoring when passing in and out of a region, etc, but nothing for accessing past location information. The need and usefulness of the database for CoreLocation Framework purposes is dubious at best.