The iPhone 11 Pro sends location data to Apple no The SettingsThe iPhone 11 implements a strange location services policy that is not transparent to the user. Even if every device and machine service is disabled, the location data is still in demand. Apple is simply pointing to the privacy policy and is not finding anything that needs fixing. As stated by KrebsOnSecurityiPhone 11 Pro, the system location data is sent back to Apple intermittently, no matter how hard the user can attempt to disable all location services. As the researcher confirms, some unknown device services require geolocation data and these settings are totally unavailable. That said, even if the user disables all location service on all applications and services there will still be some that will attempt to capture the location of the device and enable the Location Services for the moment. Apple responded by pointing to the privacy policy of the iPhone’s Location Services, which states: “When Location Services is on your iPhone, it will regularly submit to Apple the geo-tagged coordinates of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers (where device-supported) in an anonymous and encrypted form to be used to extend this crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot database You can also disable location-based system services by clicking on System Services and turning off every location-based system service. “While this behavior has been verified to occur on the iPhone 11 Pro, it is popular for all devices running iOs 13.2.3 in Apple’s latest phone line. Krebs tested the problem on iPhone 8 but was unable to replicate it. We’ve also tested this on iPhone X and there’s no question there, so this is probably just about the latest model. This conduct is by default for Apple and there is nothing to correct here. Still this is obviously a privacy bug and since we don’t know exactly what it is, it just doesn’t feel safe asking for the location data. Apple should make a statement on this, at least to clarify why the new iPhones need this “action by design.”